One more reason why our money spent bailing out the auto industry was money well spent.Now onto the other part of your post.:2wave:
I’ve been through a few recessions in my time, the one in the eighties had men with master’s degrees unloading trucks at grocery warehouses; they were/are called
lumpers.
Lumpers unload for cash payments of a few cents a pound,they go by the freight bill weight. I don’t deliver to grocery warehouses now but I do know that when I pull into a city with an oversize load, the help offers come fast and furious, the difference now is that the help offers come most of the time without a Spanish accent...now.
One could say at times very articulate. Better educated? Of course.
if you can throw forty thousand pounds of of
Tide/Clorox/whatever onto pallets in four hours you can make yourself a living wage off of the grid... if you do that a couple of times a day. In other words a person will do what is takes to keep food on the table when their/ family is hungry, regardless of the perceived step down of the social structure of the job.
As an aside the chatter on CB channel 19 seems to have taken a turn towards…well, maybe not exactly a discussion of
"Canterbury Tales" by Chaucer.I also haven’t heard much chatter on which months "Hustler" was better lately either.Bummer
In other words people will do what it takes to put food on the table.