ACME Tools.
...and..?
…..and, if you chose, you could buy or build a bakery there and sell your cookies that were made in usa.
What is cryptic about using the letters USA on a ratchet that is made in America? If it's illegal, why are they available for sale? Maybe you should point that out to whatever government agency needs to know.
Where did I lose you? You highlighted my point that Americans don't want to work, so I will assume that's it. It's true, Americans are fat, lazy, and think they are entitled to get whatever they think they deserve. Not everyone, but the majority of what I consider kids. Of the under 30 group, I would bet that less than 20% would be willing to work a job that they might get dirty at. If they did get dirty, they would expect a wage that put's them on pace to be paid better than the sports "hero's".
This is from the official SK store on Amazon.
It's not even about COO anymore... besides the fact that the ratchet in the photo says USA they're now putting the full legal brand name in the title?!? Looks like a loophole to be able to trick people into thinking it is made in the USA.
C'mon!
You statics are absolute BS. Most young people are willing to work as hard as anyone older than them. They’re just tired of finding out lazy boomers (business owners/shareholders) siphoning off the wealth for themselves or stabbing the employees in the back for a quick buck, look at all the PPP fraud.
I don't have any statistics, nor did I post any. Look again, it clearly says "I would bet that less than 20%". That's coming from me and my job as a service tech going into peoples homes and seeing perfectly capable 20-30 somethings still living at mom and dads and not having a job at all.
This is actually Amazon's bad. Not SK's. Old image probably tethered to the SKU (no pun intended). I dunno. If SK was out to pull the wool over your head, their website would be screwy. But it's not:
Lot of arguments with merit to get your ******* in a knot. This ain't one of them.
-Ryan
So, you want them to work in dirty, low pay, nowhere factory jobs, just for the sake of producing USA made S-K hand tools?
Many companies use the “designed in USA” or something similar on the packaging. Milwaukee Tools are foreign owned by a Hong Kong Chinese company but still claim to be HQ’d in the USA.
News flash- no one really wants to work. We do because we need things to live. How do you know these young people that you see living with their parents don’t have jobs? Is getting dirty at work a sign of manliness or success?
Nowhere did I state anything that even comes close to resembling that. What I did say was the majority of Americans aren't willing to get dirty regardless of pay. Construction companies are dying to get help and are willing to pay a damned good wage, but can't get help. I also stated that American manufacturing companies can't pay a low enough wage to be competitive. Also, if they do pay the higher wage, they will have to use **** material and turn out a junk product in the name of trying to turn a profit. Just go back through the archives of GJ and look at the post's where people ate bitching about the price of SK tools when Ideal owned them. They were AFAIK 100% USA made and couldn't cut it for several reasons, the largest of which is more than likely lack of sales which leads to no money.So, you want them to work in dirty, low pay, nowhere factory jobs, just for the sake of producing USA made S-K hand tools?
What would be the point of that?
I want to work and so does everyone I know.
If your needs were met without doing your current job or could be met with working 12 hours a week, would you still work at the same place doing the same thing?
If I only worked 12 hours a week I would go stir crazy or broke from having too many things trying to keep me occupied. I don't even like three day weekends and it's not about the money, it's about being busy AND productive. And, yes, I would still work at the same place since it's my company and I would do the same thing.
I’m not talking about doing things to keep busy, I’m talking about “working”
Most union trade jobs are easy 6 figure jobs if you want them to be. It’s up to you.
$20/hr would take almost 40 hours of OT every week to hit 6 figures. In many areas of the country 6 figures is just getting by.
Surely a point that stupid wasn't being made. Aside from the fact it's a tiny city, "Made in Usa" wouldn't pass Federal guidelines.
You asked. 6 figure Millwright job in MN has been pretty good to me. 90% of success is showing up on time, doing what’s asked, and not saying no.
To answer your question...again, yes, I would continue working all week even if all of my needs were met with a 12 hour work week.
My employer is me and I like what I do so there's that
I don't know what benefits were involved, but if a 20 year old would rather sit on his *** playing video games all day in his mommies basement....
The $20 per hour in my post was no experience necessary, beginning wage, as in you can come right out of high school and make this. Who knows what it would top out at. That would be why I specified the location. My 1800 Square foot house on 10 acres of land is "only" worth $300,000. I've had family visit from both coast that tell me how many millions they think it would be worth where they are from. Location is everything, the median income here is just a little over $32,000.
Working for yourself is a little different than working for the man
I would still like what I do and go to work if for nothing else, to kill the time.
Plenty of kids would probably be willing to work in manufacturing, if the jobs didn’t pay complete and utter sh!t.
Slmost Every time I see an article about Amazon burning thru workers quicker than they can replace those workers, I would look up Amazon jobs available.
Below is a segment from my first post, which you may or may not have read.
When SK was either 100% or close to it American made, the prices were so high that nobody would buy it. Yes, it was hard to find but there were plenty of places that sold SK tools online which is what the majority of people want. Go back through the archives of Garage Journal and see how many posts there are with people bitching about SK being too expensive. I'm not interested in finding out, but I wonder if some of those people are the same as the people bitching about production moving to China.