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    Joe Biden calls for tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel

    I have recently been casually getting more and more involved in local politics where I live here in New Zealand. It is quite hilarious. One minute everyone is screaming for something and being pro local, but than when those things actually get implemented suddenly everyone screams NOOO!.
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    US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?

    The story in my family goes that my ancestor on my dads side was stealing cows in Australia and selling them back to the butcher he stole them from. He got caught and jumped over the water to New Zealand to escape. My grandmothers parents came over from England by boat for a better life. As a...
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    When does NET30 start?

    Dumb question. I am asking this from the customer side. I have always paid invoices on time when I hire someone to do something for me. I make an effort to check and confirm when invoices need to be paid based on the terms stated on said invoice. What has happened to me a few times and is...
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    US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?

    I know what you guys mean. I just thought it was highly ironic on a forum where so many talk about the decline of earnings and standard of living, then suddenly someone mentions taking advantage of cheap immigrant labour.
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    US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?

    Zero automotive manufacturing takes place here. Maintenance is the only thing that takes place here. There really isn’t much point to having an automotive manufacturing base in a country with 5 million people in the middle of nowhere. However in Europe, the USA and Asia it makes sense as the...
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    US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?

    Ok that’s fine. But it still doesn’t change the fact that the only companies trying to get out of the USA are their own. In multiple industries. The eastern countries and European ones are trying to get in.
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    US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?

    A quick google show the median salary in Japan is $45,000USD a year.
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    US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?

    If that was the case then why on earth did Toyota go through so much hassle of building plants within the USA with American Workers yet the big three did whatever they could to get out.
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    US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?

    Isn’t that just making the problem worse. If you want improve standards for everyone then you need to remove the benefits of affordable labour. As long as cheap labour exists it will lower the standards of everyone else.
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    What’s going on at Boeing

    Yeah but I blame much of those shenanigans on Wall Street. I casually look at scenarios where you see a USA company struggling than you look at a foreign company that isn’t and does the same work. The common denominator for the USA companies is the requirements put on them by Wall Street that...
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    Have you ever met a machinist that was better than you?

    That was a thing in the manual world here in New Zealand. It is where the term Turner’s came from. Guys who only ran lathes. I think it was a throwback to English terminology.
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    What’s going on at Boeing

    I thought this was interesting. https://www.ft.com/content/fcacc767-5f05-414e-bebc-61c737764e7b
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    US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?

    Many legitimate migrants are driven because of where they came from. I was watching a video the other day where a guy was talking about growing up in an immigrant family in the USA. His family were refugee visa migrants from the former Soviet Union. His father in Russia had been a doctor of...
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    Have you ever met a machinist that was better than you?

    Fastest CNC programmers I have met were production guys who came from big production shops. Where they made thousands of parts where they would chase seconds out of a program to save minutes or hours on the back end. Job shops aren’t production in that respect. Job shop is more lower numbers...
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    Have you ever met a machinist that was better than you?

    I’ve always wanted to be as good as the top guys but I’ve never had a boss willing to teach and I’ve never had the money or access to the equipment to learn on my own. My bosses never valued taking time out to train. Now I am 36 and 10 years behind where I wanted to be in my life with little to...
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    Starrett goes private

    I have held some very very beautiful Etalon and Tesa tools that belonged to a previous employer.
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    Starrett goes private

    Outside of their tap wrenches and edge finders the starrett tools that I have seen over my 12+ years in the industry have not impressed me. Mitutoyo has left damn near everyone in the dust. Most of my stuff is Mitutoyo and Interapid.
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    Workmans comp question

    I just read this entire thread. Everything I just read is completely messed up. I am going to say no more.
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    US unemployment numbers keep reaching historic lows, is this making it hard to find workers in your shops?

    At 35 years old I am most probably going to try and find a good paying job doing something else so that I can build the money to be able to come back into machining. As an employee over the last decade all I see are employers who charge high but pay the lowest they can to the workers. Barely...
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    The Haas that would not work---revisited $700,000 engine block project---Maybe not the Haas?

    For anyone who likes rags to less rags stories. Here is a great video Steve did on the ups and downs of his career and how he got to where he is.

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