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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 08 2020, @04:51PM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 08 2020, @04:51PM (#968209) Journal

    Ya know - your post is almost sorta kinda satisfying, to me, a working craftsman. Back when the illegals were pouring across the border, and taking away tradesmen's jobs, everyone in tech chortled, "Well, you should have gone to school, and learned a tech job! We're safe where we are!"

    Heh. Trickle down really works. A lot of those displaced trademen and their kids moved on to tech jobs. And, the mediocrities already in those jobs are being displaced.

    Meanwhile, the best of the best in the trades, as well as the tech industry still have good, solid careers ahead of them. Provided, of course, they are willing to play the office games, and maybe kiss the right asses.

    Maybe you really are as good as you say you are. I can't judge that, but I know that beating your own drum isn't an indicator that you can be believed.

    Another poster, further down, suggested that maybe you can't get a good job because you're an asshole. Possibly true. Think about it. And, if you're an asshole, just own up to it, and be proud. If cocksuckers can cavort around the streets of our cities playing proud, then assholes can do the same.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 08 2020, @07:18PM (3 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday March 08 2020, @07:18PM (#968257) Homepage

    95% of San Diego's technician jobs are ratfucked by cheap beaners literally making minimum wage. The situation is so bad you have common legal grey areas of noncitizens and DACA caca's working in ITAR environments and even in facilities with closed areas. As if you can really trust cartel-owned Sephardic Jews masquerading as Mexicans around your national secrets.

    These were jobs that were formerly at least $20/hr jobs. If it's a case of being in a union and so a nice wage is guaranteed, only U.S. citizens should be hired. It should be illegal for unions to hire illegals. And when it comes to hiring minorities, well, Whites should be hired first.

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday March 09 2020, @05:42PM (2 children)

      by Freeman (732) on Monday March 09 2020, @05:42PM (#968560) Journal

      It should be illegal for unions to hire illegals.

      . . . by definition, isn't it . . . ?

      --
      Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 09 2020, @08:14PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 09 2020, @08:14PM (#968647)

        Yeah, but big business pays big lobbyists to bribe the right politicians to take the teeth out of employer sanctions for hiring illegals. You'd think if the conservatives really hated illegal immigrants so much, they'd push for harsher penalties on employers. But they also know that the businesses employing trades are hanging on by a thread overall and are some of the most sensitive markets overall because of the time scales and total costs involved.