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bodydamage t1_je6c5na wrote

Reply to brambly park group ‘policy’ is outrageous.. just listen to this. by Cosmicgermanshepard

Brambly seems to have several stupid rules. We went on a double date a couple weeks ago and wanted to grab some drinks from the bar and go sit outside since the weather was nice.

I asked for an Old Fashioned, “oh we don’t serve specialty cocktails for outside seating” and made a whole big fuckin to-do about it even though the bar was mostly empty and had maybe 8 people sitting at it.

Then after all that she made it anyways, and proceeded to do basically the same thing about making a chocolate Martini off their menu because she didn’t know how to make it.

She wasted more time and energy arguing about the drinks than it took to make them.

Food and drinks are meh for what they charge. This is the second time we’ve been and found the way they do things to be awfully….pedantic

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bodydamage t1_jc8lpey wrote

Reply to comment by Colt1911-45 in Richmond Times-Dispatch: Tysons food facility in Glen Allen to close, 700 workers to be impacted according to union by whw53

That’s not entirely true, it’s not telling the whole story.

Bear Island was previously owned by White Birch and made newsprint. In 2017 they idled the plant and put it up for sale, Cascades came into the picture as a prospective buyer and wanted to see the plant run, so White Birch started the plant back up temporarily so Cascades could see it run. Cascades purchased Bear Island and is in the final stages of converting the plant to make linerboard(the stuff cardboard boxes are made out of) along with being a 100% recycled fiber process.

They’ve got something north of $400 MILLION tied up in the conversion in addition to the $37 million they paid for the plant. Between their investment and demand for linerboard I’d be shocked if they idled the plant.

Source: I know multiple people who work at Bear Island currently under Cascades ownership and I know several people who previously worked there under White Birch ownership.

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bodydamage t1_jc4zzds wrote

Reply to Richmond Times-Dispatch: Tysons food facility in Glen Allen to close, 700 workers to be impacted according to union by whw53

Big oof.

At least Bear Island is spinning back up, and Lego is projecting to open their plant in Chester next year sometime, so the folks working there have some options short term and long term.

Last I checked the Lego factory is going to be hiring ~1700 employees

I’ve also been seeing a fair number of ads for jobs at Gerdau in Petersburg

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bodydamage t1_ja8kycf wrote

Reply to Man the Bowtie is really speed running shutting down at this point. by fannypax

They should advertise this.

We already go to Bowtie just for nostalgia since I’ve been going there since I was a kid.

Being able to go watch a movie in peace without a bunch of kids ruining it sounds glorious.

I’ve had to ask kids at bow tie to put their phones away, stop talking during the movie and not kick the back of my seat, etc.

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bodydamage t1_ja4uvi9 wrote

Reply to comment by the_6th_dimension in So what should we do? by googoobah

I’m sure I could, don’t care enough to go look. Feel free to go look at union payscale different places in the country, I know of more than a few that are over $50/hr

I’ve never found BLS data on income to be particularly accurate in ANY job. It’s also entirely too broad, since you’re looking nationally at that fails to take into consideration the differences in COL and thus pay.

I’ll rephrase; If you live anywhere near a medium-large sized city, making $100k+ is easy to accomplish in the trades.

Average is just all your data points added together and divided by the number of data points.

Median is the mathematical middle point between the highest and lowest data points.

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bodydamage t1_ja4lmpx wrote

Reply to comment by the_6th_dimension in So what should we do? by googoobah

It is easy to do, if the best you can do is toss government statistics around and what you THINK goes on in the trades then by all means do so.

Tradesmen to travel get per-diem which isn’t considered “income” yet is money you get all the same.

I’m sure glad I didn’t pay any mind to BLS numbers, I’d like have stayed away from the trades, but now that I’m in them I’ve found that not only are those numbers largely nonsense, I’ve also found that $100k isn’t all that high in terms of income in the blue collar world.

Go to a HCOL area and many of the union trades are payed $60+hr

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bodydamage t1_ja42g4s wrote

Reply to comment by the_6th_dimension in So what should we do? by googoobah

That data is far from conclusive, and it’s too broad to actually draw any conclusions from.

I know dozens, maybe even more people in the trades who are clearing $100k and do so regularly.

Most of those annual wages = sub $30/hr pay

Union Millwrights, Electricians, Pipefitters etc are all well over $30/hr here and we’re south of the Mason Dixon line.

If you go a few hours north those same trades pay $40-50+ per hour.

I also know guys who will work 9 months out of the year, make $80-90k and then take 3 months off being “unemployed”.

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bodydamage t1_j7zzngl wrote

Reply to North American companies notch another record year for robot orders by darth_nadoma

This isn’t the slightest bit surprising.

We don’t have any Fanuc robots, but we have several KUKAs and they’re incredible to watch.

Also somewhat of a pain in the ass to work on because of how they’re programmed and how they work.

The jobs they do aren’t complex tasks, just repetitive and mundane. One $600k robot does the work of 4 people.

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