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08-12-2008, 12:25 AM
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Do you think they would be driving a truck if they were "ROCKET SCIENTISTS"???
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Maybe. I have meet and heard a few that clam they gave up a six figure job to drive a truck. :lol:
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I've met one also. He'd been working for AMOCO CHEMICAL for eighteen years, until the company moved to MEXICO. And, after that, a lot of companies will say that you are OVER-QUALIFIED. "We have to pay you according to your experience, and we MUST start new employees at the starting wage. We can not pay you at two levels at the same time. We can't hire you". Yes, I HAVE heard that before. That was why I went to work at an electric motor plant rather than a TV station some years ago.
This guy might have been driving a truck, and pulling a trailer with a backhoe, but that truck is also allowed to go where we can not go. He was not one of us in that sense. But, the public lumps us all into one basket.
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08-12-2008, 05:03 AM
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Do you think they would be driving a truck if they were "ROCKET SCIENTISTS"???
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Maybe. I have meet and heard a few that clam they gave up a six figure job to drive a truck. :lol:
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I've met one also. He'd been working for AMOCO CHEMICAL for eighteen years, until the company moved to MEXICO. And, after that, a lot of companies will say that you are OVER-QUALIFIED. "We have to pay you according to your experience, and we MUST start new employees at the starting wage. We can not pay you at two levels at the same time. We can't hire you". Yes, I HAVE heard that before. That was why I went to work at an electric motor plant rather than a TV station some years ago.
This guy might have been driving a truck, and pulling a trailer with a backhoe, but that truck is also allowed to go where we can not go. He was not one of us in that sense. But, the public lumps us all into one basket.
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Amoco Chemical became part of BP, when they merged in 1998. While I am sure that they opened a plant in Mexico...most of the plants that were AMOCO before 1998, are BP now. Some were sold, because of FTC regulations...but they didn't move to Mexico. They just changed the name to "Huntsman" or "Celanese" or "Oxy", depending on which chemical company was salivating over the particular plant.
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Do you think they would be driving a truck if they were "ROCKET SCIENTISTS"???
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Maybe. I have meet and heard a few that clam they gave up a six figure job to drive a truck. :lol:
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I've met one also. He'd been working for AMOCO CHEMICAL for eighteen years, until the company moved to MEXICO. And, after that, a lot of companies will say that you are OVER-QUALIFIED. "We have to pay you according to your experience, and we MUST start new employees at the starting wage. We can not pay you at two levels at the same time. We can't hire you". Yes, I HAVE heard that before. That was why I went to work at an electric motor plant rather than a TV station some years ago.
This guy might have been driving a truck, and pulling a trailer with a backhoe, but that truck is also allowed to go where we can not go. He was not one of us in that sense. But, the public lumps us all into one basket.
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In this forum it isn't the public lumping us all together, now is it?
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In this forum it isn't the public lumping us all together, now is it?
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Define "us." As referenced above. Us..............?
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Read what I quoted and see if you can figure it out.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson- Democratic-Republican
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -Abraham Lincoln
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