Discussing politics and religion

[highup]

I think that is the plan, just make things stupider until anyone can kinda sorta do it and then convince them to accept their terrible installations as good because well they did it themselves and voila, no more labor shortage.
I would like to see the medical clinic learn how to flash their own material though. That would be choice.

I also think the "retail flooring store" will be more or less as extinct as the dodo bird in the next ten to fifteen years. Mills are selling direct, so many retailers are online and there really is nothing left to hold those places together but labour and that pool is shrinking all the time. Maybe I am wrong, but I bet there will be a steady decline and eventual shift in the market away from that model.

Back in the early eighties we walked into one of the carpet shops and they were selling Armstrong's do it yourself installation kits with a piece of pattern paper, a little round disc with a hole in the center for a pencil to fit into and a short straight edge made of plastic also. I don't recall if they supplied the tape for the pattern paper or if you had the supply that yourself. The little disk thing wasn't necessarily a bad idea.

 

[highup]

What is funny is when a customer speaks to me in a store and I have no clue who they are. It was a big day for them when I installed their flooring, it was one of 6-10 jobs for me some week in the past.

I forget people's names instantly. if I recognize somebody I remember where they live and the work I did..... and what they fixed me for lunch but that's about it.

 

[Floorist]

I forget people's names instantly. if I recognize somebody I remember where they live and the work I did..... and what they fixed me for lunch but that's about it.

I can remember every house I worked in, but not exactly what I did.

 

[highup]

That does it. I'm canceling my vacation to North Korea.

 

[Mark Brown]

I can probably count on me two hands the number of seams that I have not sealed. I use a stretcher even in walk-in closets. Kickers are positioning tools.

Me too, this is why I cannot do residential installations. I cannot make any money because I go and make the mistake of caring too much. Some things in life really don't pay to know better. The best part is that in almost every instance I install residential carpet I will have clients ask me "what is that thing" and I will rap off my speech about how it is a pole stretcher and it is the only tool that is designed to properly stretch carpet and then those same clients will inform me that they have never seen on of those before and I will carry on to explain that would mean that they have never had properly installed carpets before. That typically leaves people looking a little dumbfounded, especially since most of my clientele are well into their 60's or better.

 

[highup]

I'm getting older I don't do whole houses unless it's for someone that I've worked for before. That said, even if I'm doing a living room, hallway and two bedrooms, don't work for a straight rate. I may charge $7 per yard or whatever for the installation, $2 for removal, but if there's a hallway with three doorways to seam up, a closet, a bathroom door, I'll just tack on an additional $90 to $125 to my price. I don't like doing always for free.

 

[Dan]

With a guy starting out at $18 per hour carrying wood boxes into a jobsite, a $9 gallon of milk is soon to follow.

 

[C.J.]

With a guy starting out at $18 per hour carrying wood boxes into a jobsite, a $9 gallon of milk is soon to follow.

Maybe but let’s face it that’s a crap job that nobody wants to do so unless the owner of the shop wants to schlep those boxes or pay me my daily rate to do bitch work, you better offer enough money to make it worth it to somebody willing to do that kind of job.

 

[Incognito]

Let’s bring that quote up to current day.

The problem with Liberalism is that eventually you run out of your own money.

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Not if they own the government and the Federal Reserve.

 

[Floorist]

Our Republican legislature in Missouri, just screwed us. They just raised the gas tax 12 1/2 cents a gallon.

 

[highup]

Maybe but let’s face it that’s a crap job that nobody wants to do so unless the owner of the shop wants to schlep those boxes or pay me my daily rate to do bitch work, you better offer enough money to make it worth it to somebody willing to do that kind of job.

I think the usefulness of the minimum wage has pretty much run as course. If you offered a job at $8 an hour nobody will show up. Besides eight bucks an hour is kind of stupid these days. people joke about how much people at McDonald's and taco Bell make, as if that's an easy job. That looks like stress all day long being an unappreciated robot. I tip my hat to people with jobs like that. No way could I handle that type of work.

 

[highup]

Our Republican legislature in Missouri, just screwed us. They just raised the gas tax 12 1/2 cents a gallon.

You will drive less and it should make you happy that you will save the earth.... desert turtles and green-bellied ants and such.
Republican legislature?

 

[highup]

Maybe but let’s face it that’s a crap job that nobody wants to do so unless the owner of the shop wants to schlep those boxes or pay me my daily rate to do bitch work, you better offer enough money to make it worth it to somebody willing to do that kind of job.

And besides that, it's a good incentive to get younger kids into the trade. They've never done anything in their life and now they're carrying boxes to a work site. They might meet people and see what they're doing and get interested in that line of work. The box boy might actually start building or installing if what he sees sparks his interest.

 

[Floorist]

You will drive less and it should make you happy that you will save the earth.... desert turtles and green-bellied ants and such.
Republican legislature?

It has been Republican controlled for many years. The only out is if the Repub. Governor vetoes it.

 

[Floorist]

https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2021/04/the-truth-about-police-shootings-in-america/

 

[highup]

Some billboards are offensive. Depends on your humor level I guess.

 

[Floorist]

https://conservativebrief.com/joe-b...j-0a9Aqxz1UAK9Nbg_bpzml4sqWzCdJVfNWWGnS02n7hw

 

[Dan]

It has been Republican controlled for many years. The only out is if the Repub. Governor vetoes it.

Parson has indicated he will sign it. Phased in over 4 or 5 years, I believe we'll still be lower than many states. If you save every receipt you can get a refund of the increased tax over the current 17 cents. Still not a fan.

 

[Floorist]

Parson has indicated he will sign it. Phased in over 4 or 5 years, I believe we'll still be lower than many states. If you save every receipt you can get a refund of the increased tax over the current 17 cents. Still not a fan.

Last summer they spent millions redoing the 4 lane thru town, it belongs to the state and was already in great shape. In the middle of that stretch is a 60 year old overpass that is crumbling. Can't get them to work on it.

 

[highup]

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

And people wonder why some people don't believe the election results.
Not saying that it would change the results, but in the top 4 to six states where Trump lost the election, about 40,000 votes made the difference between winning or losing those States. Biden would have won the popular vote regardless, but we don't do things that way.
the fact that Democratic states fight so hard to not allow an independent inspection, and I'm not talking just a recount, have the problems leading to everyone's questions. they fight tooth and nail not to have any of this evidence looked at. Why? That's all I want to know.


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