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<blockquote data-quote="LightningCrash" data-source="post: 2251261" data-attributes="member: 4278"><p>Bringing in an anecdote to go along with that.</p><p>A guy I knew who ran this restaurant in Doorant was telling me about an old white-haired man who came into his place. He was in a jumpsuit, and took a half day off to come up to Durant, starting with lunch.</p><p>The old man worked for a company down in Texas that re-machined parts for TI. The engineers at TI would make parts, screw them up and then they would send them to this company to fix. "Kids know their computers but they don't know how parts fit together" And this company was about to go under, the man says. Turns out that everyone who worked there was retiring. The youngest employee was 66. They couldn't find machinists to replace the people who were leaving.</p><p>a:"Haven't you advertised?"</p><p>b:"Well yeah in the paper and on the Monster.com, for 2 years now."</p><p>a:"Well are you paying well?"</p><p>b:"71000 a year"</p><p>a:"71 thousand! hot damn, and nobody even applies?"</p><p>b:"Nope. So I'm just using up my vacation hours before the company shuts down. Thought I'd come up to Deadrat and look around."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LightningCrash, post: 2251261, member: 4278"] Bringing in an anecdote to go along with that. A guy I knew who ran this restaurant in Doorant was telling me about an old white-haired man who came into his place. He was in a jumpsuit, and took a half day off to come up to Durant, starting with lunch. The old man worked for a company down in Texas that re-machined parts for TI. The engineers at TI would make parts, screw them up and then they would send them to this company to fix. "Kids know their computers but they don't know how parts fit together" And this company was about to go under, the man says. Turns out that everyone who worked there was retiring. The youngest employee was 66. They couldn't find machinists to replace the people who were leaving. a:"Haven't you advertised?" b:"Well yeah in the paper and on the Monster.com, for 2 years now." a:"Well are you paying well?" b:"71000 a year" a:"71 thousand! hot damn, and nobody even applies?" b:"Nope. So I'm just using up my vacation hours before the company shuts down. Thought I'd come up to Deadrat and look around." [/QUOTE]
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