"Knothead" wrote in message


Depends on your management structure. Sometimes they actually do earn
their
keep. Not saying every company is but I sub to a company thats lean and
pays
well, management and labor both but that is a pretty involved story and
one
you don't hear very often. The problem lies more in the definition of
skilled labor. I know a guy that works in a GM manufacturing plant that
makes about $32 an hour to stick a bolt in a threaded insert and buzz it
down with an impact wrench I have seen PBS specials that demonstrate
monkeys
can work at a higher capacity. Don't take it the wrong way, I like Tim and
am glad he has a good paying job. I do bite my tongue every time he
bitches
about jobs going overseas though. Compared to another fella I know that
makes about the same money working high steel you really do have to wonder
about the definition of skilled worker. Me I'm management and labor all
rolled into one so I don't really have a good opinion.....

The exact point I was making. And I wonder how long it took to learn that
skill of screwing a bolt into that insert? ;~) The management can be
blamed equally for having poor working conditions years ago and letting the
problem get to this point. Unfortunately there are too many that believe
they have a right to earn more than the people doing the same job in another
country for 90% less. I retired from upper automotive management at 40. I
now work doing woodworking for a fraction of what I was being paid. It was
my choice and I accept the lower wages. Actually I am self employed and
charge what I feel the work is actually worth and not what I can get.