I used to believe just as you do INSTALDUDE. Recently I have realized though that if you dont take it, they will just replace you. Do not ever think that in the end WE, the technicians, have any control. Only thing we control is how long we are willing to go without food, water, electricity, etc since we tried to hold a certain level of control over the corporate monster and lost. The youth today is one of the things that are destroying those of us that have been around for a while. We, as well as corporate, primes, and seconds, all know this is a highly skilled industry and should be paid accordingly. Problem is corporate monster along with primes would rather make a few extra bucks and take some 18 year old pimple faced kid off the street, hand him some tools and send him to the wolves after maybe a week of trainig. Now with that in mind, the kid will screw up and depending on how bad the screw up is, they cover it or fix it.....and all solutions come at a cost to the new kid. No matter what they got a helper for a week for free and have enough money on him to cover the tools, and his insurance fixes rest of screw ups. Since corporate and prime didnt lose, they hire another kid and all those kids think they are like scarface when they get their first 1000 dollar check. Theres strength in numbers but not the way you would think. Strength is that there are huge numbers of rookies the monster would be glad to replace any of us with. If it were a relationship instead of employment, the abusive actions of the corp and primes would come with a prison sentence.
This is CABL.com posting #335129. Tiny Link: cabl.co/mbzlt
