Service Work

[kedawa]

Where have I heard that before?

[Fe 26]

Probably in some other thread where someone cries about walmart being the evil empire.

[Calliander]

Wal-Mart isn't the evil empire, but I hate it and every person who shops there (a.k.a. Mexicans).

[Fe 26]

lol at buying from big chain store elitism.

[Yoshi]

A service job of the same intelligence requirement usually pays about half as much as a production job.

What are you defining as a service? Is IT in there? I know people who have a job similar in intent to mine but in the manufacturing idustry that make a lot less than I do.

[Fe 26]

What are you defining as a service? Is IT in there? I know people who have a job similar in intent to mine but in the manufacturing idustry that make a lot less than I do.

It was said in the context of jobs that can be done without a college education. Like say, building furniture in a factory pays like 13$ an hour, but working at McDonalds pays what? 6.50?


Computer work is a world all to it's own.

Services are jobs that perform a task that does not result in the production of a physical object or thing. Building a car would be a manufacturing job, doing the paper work on the cost of metal to make the car for the factory, is a service.

[JefmcC]

People tend to forget (or ignore) the fact that a huge amount of INsourcing comes into the United States as well. There may well be MORE manufacturing jobs in the U.S. than there used to be.

It's practically impossible to fine non-biased information on either side of the issue.

[voltz]

Wal-Mart isn't the evil empire, but I hate it and every person who shops there (a.k.a. Mexicans).

The superstore here in green bay looks like mexico.

[g0zen]

People tend to forget (or ignore) the fact that a huge amount of INsourcing comes into the United States as well. There may well be MORE manufacturing jobs in the U.S. than there used to be.

It's practically impossible to fine non-biased information on either side of the issue.

You're blatantly inflating the number of insourced jobs. Because it's far from a huge amount. In the automotive industry especially, plants that come BACK to the U.S. tend to go down south (where labor laws are lax) and after collecting millions in subsidies end up only hiring maybe 60 to 70 employees tops. The rest is all automated. PBS did a really good special on this a few weeks back.

[Tones]

Another reason that foreign auto companies come to the south is that the south is pretty indifferent to unions.