Reply #32: I Just got home.... [View All]

[bluecollarcharlie]

after working my shift at a Chrysler plant just south of Detroit. I don't really know what to say. I am stunned,numb and really wonder what the next six weeks will bring. I just heard about layoffs at another Chrysler facility tonight. And, while i'm not sure of the total amount, i do know that they have nothing to do with the traditional Christmas shutdown.

These are indefinite layoffs.

I tried not to hear any news about what was going on in Washington D.C. because as it is now i can barely function. Not without being in turns very bitter and very fearful and sad. It is very hard to hear so many people discussing your livelihood and so many people getting it wrong. It makes it hard to work. So when i come home i try to catch up with this stuff online, have a drink and then go to bed. And then i see the first posted reply.

There are a lot of misdirected DUers around here who seem to think that manufacturing and labor should just go away and that technology is the great magic cure-all for everything in this country. They probably still believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, The Loch Ness Monster and Big Foot as well. I soooo hope that those cheering the failure of this legislation will get to find out how bad the job market really is out there in very quick, short order. Because skills or no skills, if there is no industry there is no job. For any of us. And no amount of thoughtless, empty platitudes of retraining will do a damn bit of difference.
For anyone. I think Cronus should be first.