On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 12:35:54 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


Keyser Soze wrote:

On 10/31/18 8:04 PM, wrote:

I am really surprised you are so anxious to bring all of these
immigrants in because I know them and they are certainly a threat to
those fat, lazy union workers you hold so dear. I Latino crew will out
work your anglos all day long, work for less and be ready to work a
job without 4 or 5 years of carrying a journeyman's tools and fetching
his coffee.



Just because you never had the skills to hold down a union construction
job in the skilled trades in complex commercial construction is no
reason to knock those who do. Your disdain for formal training in
just about every field is laughable. If you never need surgery, I
suggest you find a corpsman instead of a surgeon.

You crack me up. I am sure the architects and engineers that design
these commercial buildings are thinking, "Let's see. I can make this
more complex because union tradesmen will be building it".

Buildings are designed to be built using proven technology
and materials that *any* qualified construction worker can do.

Your claims are nonsense.

They have dumbed down these trades so much with new materials and
methods, all but the most complicated jobs could be learned in a month
or two. In one and two family, 90% of the work could be taught in a
week.
BTW the toughest skills are nothing to do with the actual trades, it
is planing and plan review on my side. Once it is on the plan,
actually doing the work is a paint by numbers thing. When you have a
residential setting, they are sleepwalking through a repetitive
factory type job. That is particularly true when it is a condo or
tract housing where you are building the same 10 rooms for months.
As I said the 4 plex had a gang and each guy only did one or two
things all day. You don't need 4 years fetching coffee to learn how to
do that.