What kind of nutter do you have to be to marry her and have kids with her? Mein Gott.

Dude check a map. The Tesla Factory is outside Sparks NV (suburb of Reno). The Faraday Factory broke ground outside North Las Vegas, Nevada, 450 miles away.

Oh on the idea that you need a middle class to support Vegas’ gambling haul. Maybe. The nightclub industry is ridic, and it’s handle is coming close to the casinos’ handle. What Vegas sells as it’s core product now is the feeling of being a “winner.” Queen for a day, whatev. Some people get that here from “winning” by…

Vegas is on the comeback. But it’s sloooow. Housing starts are up, demand for skilled labor (Mexican house builders, dunno how “skilled” they are) is up (not the wages themselves mind you, they still want to pay peanuts.) Housing prices are not far below the high water mark of ‘06. (Looks like another bubble forming…

You would be wrong. Catering to the Whales (big gamblers) can make or break a casino. High end play is a whole tracked category in the casino operators financials. Names, addresses, and contact info are trade secrets. Losing a whale to another casino could cost you your job as a casino VIP host. There’s entire fleets…

Steam is the key to how I like my cheesesteaks made. Grilled meat, close to done, spray with water, thrown the cheese and bread on. Melty cheese, soft warm bread.

Yeah but in assembly line fabrication the process is a much a part of the total manufacture as is the design and engineering. What you’re talking about sounds much smaller in scale. You’re giving a drawing(s) to a crew and then they’re figuring out the process as they’re also making the thing. When you’re building…

By the time an auto worker is bolting shit up, the design is done. The engineering is done. The process by which it will put it together is done. And the QA program to verify that the process is done correctly is done.

Any union field rep will tell you the same thing, 90% of our time is dealing with 10% of our people, but though they may be fuckups, the company is ignoring the contract, which spells out the manner in which fuckups are to terminated, and that cannot stand. Honor thy contract.

How many cars do robots need?

With Icahn’s activist shareholder philosophical takeover of Wall St, the people who own the companies seemingly don’t give a fuck about company longevity either. I’ll bet the UAW and it’s workers care more, since they just can’t pull out financially and move on to greener pastures to fuck up like the Icahns of the…

In a union. I pay about ~1500/yr in dues. I make 2x on the check (at least), plus benefits over what non union makes. The dues are not outrageous.

Workers just make the cars. If the cars are shit, it’s the designers and engineers, and management’s fault for approving the designs and engineering. If the assembly is shit, it’s the manufacturer’s process and QA’s fault. If the company can’t figure out the process and the controls, they get what they get.

Workers have rights without having to pay unions for those rights that came about because unions fought for those rights. ftfy

Tell that to the tech workers at Google, Apple, Adobe, and Intel, whose companies all committed a crime by collusion on wage fixing. That’s a form of theft.

Here is the word everyone needs to know on unions as well as on corporations, governments, NGOs, churches, etc.; all of them are made up of people. It is not the…

Shortening deadlines, yeah, welcome to the boom in Vegas. 18 months from ideation and conception by the grand poobahs of the casino class to grand opening was the norm for 15-20 years.

I’ve heard all about St Louis for years. It is one of the best locals in the US. I had two coonass pipefitters from Lousiana telling me about it when I was 19. They drove up, “it’s got fences like a prison, barb wired, tall. We spoke into the intercom, and told them we were there for work, they were annoyed we…

That’s basically your response; that a sparky should be making 5 bucks an hour, painting with a wide brush, gross generalization, etc. The laughable part here is you. But you outed your self as an old git, who’s dollar value is stuck in 1978 and not adjusted for inflation. You’re not the arbiter of what the market…

Oh christ, no one is more over paid than firefighters. And lazy? Paid to sleep for crying out loud. And crooked too, oh jeez, the ones here in Vegas got caught scamming the county for hundreds of thousands in overtime, each.

So 1988? Decades later it’s morphed into something else entirely.