“I want a job where I can survive,”

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110708/BUSINESS/307080057/Thousands-line-up-Ford-jobs-national-hiring-stalls?odyssey=obinsite

Thousands line up for Ford jobs as national hiring stalls

5:15 PM, Jul. 8, 2011

Thousands lined up Friday morning for a chance to work at Ford’s Louisville Assembly Plant, just as the federal government announced the national unemployment rate rose to 9.2 percent last month.

About 2,500 showed up at the state Office of Employment & Training at 6th and Cedar streets downtown to put in applications for $15.51-an-hour jobs at the Ford plant on Fern Valley Road, which will reopen November after a major renovation. snip

Men and women— many with their adult children or parents — said they were hoping for work beyond hardscrabble minimum wages available from warehouse, restaurant and other low-skill jobs. “I want a job where I can survive,” said movie ticket clerk Devin Schneider, with his 3-year-old son Aiden in one arm and an umbrella in the other.

A Ford job would about double his earnings, he said. “I could get me a car, and a house, and move out of my parents’ house.”

Schneider’s 54-year-old father, an unemployed trucker, also made the 40-minute drive from rural Charlestown, Ind., to apply.

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1. You bunch of goddam greedheads

Oh, a car isn't enough for you, Mr. Schneider? You want a house, too? That money has to come from somewhere, and since there's only one place where money exists anymore, it's clear that you want to steal it from the wealthy! It's class warfare, it is!

On the other hand, it's exceedingly delicious for our overlords to see young Schneider competing for a job against his own father. Thunderdome, anyone?

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. +10

[Coyote_Bandit]

2. Me Too

But I don't expect that to happen anytime soon.

[xmas74]

3. I'd have been there if I lived in the area.

You really have to fight for jobs like that.

[NNN0LHI]

5. I am 2 years older than the unemployed truck driver and I know I couldn't last one shift there

I know this because I was working in auto plants during the prime of my life and it almost killed me back then.

I am not exaggerating either. The heat was stifling, the noise was like standing right next to a freight train going about 80 MPH for 8-12 hours. and then on top of that it was dangerous beyond comprehension. Lot of ways to die there before you knew what hit you.

Hired in with about 200 other people about my age then(18-20), and half of them didn't make it to the first break.

Jobs were plentiful back then though. Didn't like working there they could walk across the street and get a job somewhere else. Ain't like that no more.

Don

[xmas74]

6. I've worked in battery plants

and I've worked in a slaughterhouse. Temperature extremes are just something to get used to. Currently I work as a cook-more temp extremes.

I'm used to 12,14, even 16 hours days on my feet with very few breaks. I'm used to protective equipment and I'm used to using equipment that could easily kill me. At least in an auto plant I wouldn't be processing lead dust all day long, like I did with the battery plates.

I never thought growing up I'd be a single parent, struggling to make ends meet, and working in predominantly "male" jobs. You do what you have to do, suck it up, stick it out, or don't have a job.