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To add, just like all the Toyota employees that are happy with their $18 an hour to do repetitive stuff all day.

It may not be enough for the harsh repetitiveness for you, but there aren't a shortage of workers that would be satisfied with it.

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My old job had much more stress on body and joints than a plant worker and I got paid less than 1/2 that.

---- them....

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$18/hr is okay if you are the sort of person who works 40 hours a week. I prefer to develop an over inflated sense of self worth and make the same money off of working ten hours a week.

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I expected nothing less. Good work.

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I think you were missing my point. I was agreeing The american companies were getting over paid but the right amount was 18-25 dollars and hour.

Working in a plant making cars wears down your body. You are in akward positions using body parts you never thought you had before.
I did rear mount
radiator hose
front rear mount
extenstion
shifter installations
to over 400 cars in 8 hours a day. you don't have time to make sure you do it right you prob only have a 10-15 second window then boom! the next car comes along. Plus you don't want to slack because if you do your job slower than the guy next to you your slowing down the line. Doing that constantly to over 400 cars a day for 40 hours a week will ---- you up I don't care what you say. There people that work at honda thats been there for over 20 years and its put alot of beating to their body.

My point was that getting paid $70 dollars an hour is too much but $18-$25 is just about right.

and i didn't mind it it takes and average 1-2 months for your body to get use to it but you still get sore at the end of the day. I left because it was all the way in ------- marysville and that was like an hour drive having to be there from 6:30am-3:30 pm. Plus at that time gas was well over $4.00 a gallon and i was driving a Trooper at that time. So i said "---- that"

Its a hard job and probably one of the hardest job I've had all my life because you have to be fast, perfect, and take the beating because you effect the entire employees in the plant and if your holding them up you'll get bitch at. If you don't do your job right you get bitch at. and you only have 10 seconds to do it.

So $18 dollars is just about right for that job. $70...not so much :P

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your being used and abused :-X

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The whole $70 figure is with all benefits included and wages. So don't compare $18 at honda with $70 at GM

Honda/toyota people probably make more like $40 an hour after benefits. Because they don't have crazy pensions and lifetime health care and all that ----.

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either way they are still getting overpaid

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It's already been stated earlier in the thread that the $70 figure includes all their benefits.

But:

Toyota/Honda/etc don't give you health insurance for life or some crazy retirement plan.

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yeah i know. I don't know about toyota but with honda even if you get injured while on the assembly line it still takes two weeks to get approved for disability pay too.