fxrs
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I have worked for my current employer for over 26 years.
I am a machinist and Computer numerical controlled machine tool
programmer. ( Milling Centers and Turning Centers)
I am an at will enployee and am paid hourly. Up untill December
we enployed over 130 people. Mechanical engineers, Electrical engineers
Controls programmers, Machine designers, Front office clerical, Way
to many white shirts, Machinist, Assembly mechanics, Cnc machinist,
Welders and so on. We are now down to about 31 people total.
We hourly people have been cut to 32 hours. The salary people
have taken a 20 percent paycut. Those of working 32 hours
equals a 20 percent pay cut . For many years I worked my
standard 40 hour week and by the end of the year I had
also worked 250 to 500 hours overtime. Looks like the end is in
site I'm sorry to say. Anyway living in New Jersey doesn't
help. This state is not business friendly at all. tax tax tax.
I still have to pay my property taxes. That did not go down 20 percent.
I have to listen to the state workers whining because the idiot governor
talks about wanting the state workers to take a 5 day furlough over
the course of a year.
The state wanted all state workers to pay 5 or 10 dallors for their
health care and they felt that was unfair. I have to pay $100 per week
for my health care just for me and my son. My wife gets hers through
her employer. Some of my co-workers pay to insure their whole
familys at $250 per week. I'm not going to get started on the teachers
union because my head will exploded. Anyway any one looking
to hire a 52 year old machinist. I may have to move to
China because that apears to be where the manufacturing jobs are going.
I have always tried to buy American made goods. I have never bought
a foreign car, new or used. I am not a union person nor do I belong
to a union. But the way the federal government is going we all may
be calling each other comrade.
I am a machinist and Computer numerical controlled machine tool
programmer. ( Milling Centers and Turning Centers)
I am an at will enployee and am paid hourly. Up untill December
we enployed over 130 people. Mechanical engineers, Electrical engineers
Controls programmers, Machine designers, Front office clerical, Way
to many white shirts, Machinist, Assembly mechanics, Cnc machinist,
Welders and so on. We are now down to about 31 people total.
We hourly people have been cut to 32 hours. The salary people
have taken a 20 percent paycut. Those of working 32 hours
equals a 20 percent pay cut . For many years I worked my
standard 40 hour week and by the end of the year I had
also worked 250 to 500 hours overtime. Looks like the end is in
site I'm sorry to say. Anyway living in New Jersey doesn't
help. This state is not business friendly at all. tax tax tax.
I still have to pay my property taxes. That did not go down 20 percent.
I have to listen to the state workers whining because the idiot governor
talks about wanting the state workers to take a 5 day furlough over
the course of a year.
The state wanted all state workers to pay 5 or 10 dallors for their
health care and they felt that was unfair. I have to pay $100 per week
for my health care just for me and my son. My wife gets hers through
her employer. Some of my co-workers pay to insure their whole
familys at $250 per week. I'm not going to get started on the teachers
union because my head will exploded. Anyway any one looking
to hire a 52 year old machinist. I may have to move to
China because that apears to be where the manufacturing jobs are going.
I have always tried to buy American made goods. I have never bought
a foreign car, new or used. I am not a union person nor do I belong
to a union. But the way the federal government is going we all may
be calling each other comrade.