Good Morning from Custer, SD

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 06/07/2018 at 10:55 • Filed to: None

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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 06/07/2018 at 11:05

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Prevailing wage, they mean minimum right?

wafflesnfalafel > ttyymmnn 06/07/2018 at 11:07

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the commute would be a bit much for me...

ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 06/07/2018 at 11:10

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I don’t know. The hostess who seated us is about 9 years old.

Aremmes > ttyymmnn 06/07/2018 at 11:10

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It’s not like we didn’t know.

ttyymmnn > wafflesnfalafel 06/07/2018 at 11:10

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But the scenery is amazing.

450X_FTW > ttyymmnn 06/07/2018 at 11:12

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something something, where’s all the Americans claiming their jobs were stolen by immigrants to take the immigrants job since they’ve been deported?

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 06/07/2018 at 11:12

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Maybe the prevailing wage isn’t high enough?

Milky > 450X_FTW 06/07/2018 at 11:15

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They’re back at work because of the lowest unemployment in 2 decades. Its almost like we don’t need tariffs or ICE crackdowns.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 06/07/2018 at 11:15

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I’m still confused about the context here.

Angry sign is angry.

Like Custer, this aggression will not stand.

450X_FTW > Milky 06/07/2018 at 11:17

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It’s almost like the free market created a job demand for immigrant work.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 06/07/2018 at 11:17

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Restaurant.ots of overseas workers come for the tourist season. The lodge had a Mexican, African and Croatian waitstaff. This is a small family run restaurant.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 06/07/2018 at 11:22

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I guess I should be prepared for our beach trip next month. Even the small town spots are full of Eastern European and South Asian waitstaff. This is the first I’ve heard, I thought the fallout had already passed.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 06/07/2018 at 11:22

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In the labor industry prevailing wages are set by the state for primarily public works and government funded jobs and projects. In northern california if I have a construction inspector on a water treatment plant project funded by the state or the feds or local government agency according to the law I have to pay them about $70/hr plus benefits. That’s twice what we pay a 5 year civil engineer.

For Sweden > 450X_FTW 06/07/2018 at 11:25

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When I hear capitalist pig-dogs praising the free market

450X_FTW > For Sweden 06/07/2018 at 11:26

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When I hear there is leftover cake in the break room

Mercedes Streeter > 450X_FTW 06/07/2018 at 11:29

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Americans: “Illegals are taking all of out jobs!”

Americans, after said people have been deported: “I don’t want to work that job, that job is for kids or poors.”

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 06/07/2018 at 11:54

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SAD!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > For Sweden 06/07/2018 at 11:57

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79KzZ0YqLvo&feature=youtu.be&t=61

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > 450X_FTW 06/07/2018 at 12:04

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When I hear they are boarding all rows all passengers on a Q400.

Svend > ttyymmnn 06/07/2018 at 12:20

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Why is my mind sticking on-

‘and yes we have hired and paid a prevailing wage to all the American that applied’

What about the non-American staff and when it says ‘applied’, is that applied to a certain requirement of employment, certain age, etc... or all staff, because why didn’t it just say ‘and yes we have hired and paid a prevailing wage to all our staff’?

punkgoose17 > 450X_FTW 06/07/2018 at 12:38

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I am amused that both sides are correct and as the angry note indicates legal immigration is too difficult in many cases.

450X_FTW > punkgoose17 06/07/2018 at 12:57

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So I work for a German auto supplier, in Michigan, and one of my colleagues is here on a 3 year assignment. Arrived a couple months ago. It’s taken his wife over 4 months just to get a work permit......

450X_FTW > Mercedes Streeter 06/07/2018 at 12:58

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“that’s a STARTER job!”

asenna > ttyymmnn 06/07/2018 at 15:35

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I did this same trip last year was one of my favorites

ttyymmnn > Svend 06/08/2018 at 02:33

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It’s directed at the Trumpites who say that we should be hiring American workers instead of furriners. I probably should have provided more context. This was at a restaurant in Custer, South Dakota where we had breakfast. Lots of businesses all over the US hire workers from overseas to help out during the heavy summer tourism season. For example, when I was in the Outer Banks of North Carolina a few years ago, all of the gift shops were staffed by college kids from Ukraine or Slovakia. At our lodge here in Custer State Park in South Dakota, our waiter was from Mexico, and there were others from Africa and Slovenia. These businesses depend on workers coming to the US on guest worker visas to fill out their staffs during the summer. Despite what the US jingoists want you to believe, there are simply not enough Americans to fill these jobs. Americans don’t want to wait tables or work in gift shops, but there is a ready and willing workforce of people from other countries who would love to come here and work in beautiful places for three months. So why not let them? That sentence is saying, yes, we have hired all the Americans who have applied, but we’re still short handed. It’s asinine that we are in the situation we are in.