Why is working in the usa so easy? So for every 3 hours of work you get to sit down how easy? An easy job!?
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I don't deny that Americans have it easy, but it depends on where you work, and what kind of work ethic you have, really. I spent the last five weeks working 60 hours a week, with precious little time for breaks, if I want to keep up. \n\nMy supervisor, on the other hand, works 40 hours a week, and only has to give two half-hour breaks, and the rest of his 8-hour shift is spent eating, and surfing porn online. He's about 4 inches shorter than me, and outweighs me by about 150 pounds.\n\nAmericans have made laws to make things easier, and get less done throughout the day. This means we have to hire more people and pay benefits to many more people than we needed to, making non-technology-based companies charge more for their products, while overseas companies continually underbid our companies.\n\nBut there are a few of us still left that understand what it's like to work for a living.
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For me its not even though I moved to usa with a lot of money which where spent instantly to cover all needs.I mean life in Usa is better than in Europe only for money because if you actually get a degree here you can find a job easier than if you live in Europe its  hard because there is a lot of competion.However life in Europe is more expensive and they get paid less so you choose and make your own decisions :)
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why would they care they get everything else free! havent Americans sat down and did a little look at ur own pay checks here. ex. a person making 15.00 buck a hr. at 40 hrs a week. equals $600 gross. u would bring home about low 400's to mid 400's if ur lucky depending on what u have to take out. that means really u only make about a little over 10 bucks a hr. if that and some pay checks are less then 400 after everything is taking out. so illegal making 5 bucks hr equals 200. and nothing comes out so that there whole check. so think about this here. they really have more money then Americans do so why would they care if they get paid low wages. there making a kill-in. they get everything else handed to them by us wonderful tax payers.
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I have been working 3rd shift for 10 years. I like it because I don't have alot of supervisors floating around or have to fight for the elevator, and deal with large crowds of people. However I have 2 kids and a husband, and sometimes I really wish I could live a normal life with 8 hours of sleep, but my life just works out better for me working nights.
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Well that ford thing is close to the answewr. It did start in Detroit. But for a Very strange reason. Before any simple term like having a 40 hour wek was around. during the early 1900's people started to run out of work. Due to the large flow of people coming to America. They typically worked for 16 hours a day. 6 days a week. A Factory owner noticed if a person had a short day at work he still managed to produce all most as much as he would have any way. It occured to the owners that they could create a round the clock work ethic well giving the workers less hours to work in a day. They asked the workers if you give up a few hours of your job your friends will be able to have a Job as well. And 24 hours just simply will make thre shifts. the factory organazation kneww they would be more productive and at the same time promoted themselves as being community minded and helping the people out of work.
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I am a Maintenance Planner at a Coal Prep Plant, I make around 60k a year (after factoring in overtime and bonuses) and it is a very boring but easy job. Some of the people who hold my position at other sites owned by our company say their job is hectic and they never have time to get it all done, but the site I work at runs pretty smooth leaving me with a lot of free time. The one thing I hate about my job, 10 hour shifts, 5 days a week, with a 2 hour commute each way....so I feel like I live here most of the time.
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Anymore employers seem to be able to do anything they want and unfortunately whether it is legal or not GET AWAY WITH IT.\n\nMy boss' idea of a pay cut was like last week for example.  Instead of working our normal scheduled 32 hr holiday week schedule +8hrs holiday pay, all I got was 23 hrs of work just because upper mngmnt said we need to save money "again".\nThis is the kind of BS we've been tolerating lately off and on and its getting really old.  Mngmnt doesn't get any proportional weekly cut and I feel they should as well.  Its always the working stiff in America who has to eat the SH** of mngmnt's problems.  I feel a lot of working people would agree with this statement.
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More work is not always the issue.\n\nHow about accuracy or exact duplication of a part.  Additionally it works 24/7 with no vacations, sick leave or lunch breaks.  That's just for starters, I'm sure others will have more to offer.
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The pay is good, the hours are not necessarily long. I graduated 5 years ago and never work more than 42 hours per week. I thought standing would get annoying but I actually love standing because the day goes faster and I don't find myself getting tired like I would if I were trying to do some engineering project at a desk all day. Nowadays even the rookies right out of school with a doctorate degree make over 100 grand in a full time retail job in most metro settings.
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What do we get in return for giving our jobs away?  A lot of people think that we are outsourcing only blue collar/labor oriented jobs say like manufacturing. We are also outsourcing engineering and other technical work to countries like India via the internet. There are a lot of high paying manufacturing jobs. I get my hands dirty every day at work and I am not ashamed because I will make nearly 50 grand this year. That's on 50 hours per week which is a lot better than some of the white collar workers I know. There is a rediculous misconception when I walk into a store after work with my dirty navy blue uniform on with my name on it that I must be poor or something but the fact is I probably make more money than just about anyone else there.  Sorry going on a rant here. The fact is that when you take raw materials and produce usable products from those materials wealth is created. If you can produce a product and take it all the way to the end consumer you can make a lot more profit. But that requires engineering, research and development, market analysis, advertising, packaging, warehousing, wholesaling, distributing, and final sales. At each of those points wealth is redistributed. It all starts with mining and manufacturing. Everyone else makes some money along the way. A lot of very high paying high tech machining/die making jobs have gone to Taiwan. They are developing skills there that not many here in the U.S. can see the benefit. It makes me sick every time a have to explain what a machinist does. A machinist makes anything from the pistons in your engine to the wheels on your car to the mold that was used to form the shape of anything made from plastic. For example your keyboard, monitor casing, and mouse were all formed from plastic in a mold made by a moldmaker which is a type of machinist. These are the types of jobs we are losing.  Manufacturing drives innovation and if we stop doing this kind of work then our engineering capabilities will suffer due to lack of use. The main reason our country has become so wealthy is because of the huge supply of natural resources that have been mined and then manufactured into usable products. At every point in our growth we have come against obstacles to produce enough to supply a growing population. Due to these obstacles innovation was required. If we allow other countries to do our dirty work for us we will also be allowing other countries to be innovative for us. And we will eventually become weak minded and unable to solve our own problems. To answer the question, "Why is outsourcing of US jobs bad for the US?" It is bad because it takes away from the SOURCE of our wealth and our strength. There are only four economic sectors that generate material wealth: agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and construction. Other sectors, such as services and trade, redistribute this wealth, and are built on the products created by the wealth generators. Check out the link I hope your paper goes well.
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Americans are willing to do the jobs that illegals do! When I was in high school I picked oranges in the summer and worked in packing houses, and so did a lot of my friends.  The difference is illegals work for next to nothing, something that Americans can't do.  The next time you say that they do the jobs that we are too lazy to do, please think about all the hardworking Americans that won't be able to earn a decent wage, pay taxes, and support our economy because an Illegal is  working for twenty-five cents an hour.  Those same taxes that their employers aren't paying are being paid by the rest of us, and when an illegal gets hurt on the job he or she isn't going to be denied emergency health care.  This ultimately causes the rest of us honest tax payers to cover that burden.  Thinking that illegals are necessary for our economy to function doesn't make any sense, the ONLY people it helps are the law breaking businesses who hire them.  Isn't it funny how liberals who are normally incredibly anti-big business are all for cheap illegal labor?
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How do you feel about your current job? Besides the pay, do you get along with your coworkers? Is your boss constantly checking up on you and questioning your work, or does s/he respect you and give you space to work freely?\n\nThese are the sorts of questions that I ask myself in a situation like your own. While money is very important, unless I was getting offered a lot more money, I would stay where I was if I felt comfortable there.\n\nHow I look at it is that you're at work for (at least) eight hours a day. When you're not at work, or sleeping, you're either getting ready for work or unwinding from work - so it is far better to find a place that you like to work at as it is essentially a second home.
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I doubt that anybody in America works any harder than anybody else.  I think we all work hard enough.
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It helps re-enforce what you discuss in class. Wait until you get into College and have to do 10+ page research papers, but, then there always MacDonald's. Workers are needed everywhere. You have to decide if you want to work now for an easy, good paying job, or, not work now and work hard for less money the rest of your life. I worked hard in school and retired at 28, but, that another story.
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In the USA the solution is not putting up with laziness. Most "poor" people in the USA are just plain lazy. The few that aren't, need to learn a trade.
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That's not a question.   It's a rant.  If you do the work, you will succeed.   Many Americans are among the laziest people around.  For some reason they think the world owes them.   It doesn't owe anyone anything, and other cultures realize that.   It doesn't even owe you a fair boss - and many aren't.  So adjust and get off your duff and do the work!
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Was driving 1 hour one way for $18.50/hr., working 12-hr. shifts--found new job 12 minutes away for $15.50/hr. and ended up SAVING money--3 yrs, later , at $21.50--I'd say it was worth it!!