One Bad Trip in Aunts Creek

[jdmidwest]

6 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I bought a locking gas cap about a month ago.   You can’t trust anyone.   

Yep, the gas thieves will start back up like the late 70's.  I remember loosing tanks of it many times.  Just started driving and was parking my tank side against the white board fence into our yard.  We were living along a blacktop road then after Mom and Dad got the divorce.  One nite, heard a car door slam and the car left off.  It stopped down the road in the curve.  I grabbed the 20 gauge and Mom hit the lights.  I saw one running off into the woods and I shot high.  His buddy took off and left him.  He came back later on and picked him up.  Last tank of gas I lost.

Now days, they are too stupid to remember the next night what happened to them.  Its only going to get worse.  We are entering the second year of the new Carter admin.  And I don't see a Reagan on the horizon.  And I don't think Putin is going to agree to a SALT 3.

[Bill Babler]

Guy at Harbor Freight in Branson said they were stolen blind this last weekend during business hours. 

people walked out with $1000’s of dollars in unpaid for items. Mostly hand held power tools  

Berryville KFC told Becky they had to quit their lunch bar cause people were stealing hundreds of pieces of chicken per day. Putting it in bags under their coats or purses  and walking out. 

lack of employees to police it. 


 

[bobby b.]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

people walked out with $1000’s of dollars in unpaid for items.

Imports from California?

[Flysmallie]

15 minutes ago, bobby b. said:

Imports from California?

Don't be fooled. Plenty of ol' hillbilly thieves born and bred right here. 

[mixermarkb]

2 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

Don't be fooled. Plenty of ol' hillbilly thieves born and bred right here. 

Yep. Huge gap between the haves and the have nots right now. The have nots are getting more and more desperate…

[Flysmallie]

1 hour ago, mixermarkb said:

Yep. Huge gap between the haves and the have nots right now. The have nots are getting more and more desperate…

You mean the have jobs and the have not jobs. The have have nots need to take their lazy selves to work and they won't be so desperate. 

[fishinwrench]

6 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

 

lack of employees to police it. 

I guess they got too big for their britches then, hu?   

Don't haul off and open a gigantic store....or multitudes of them... if you don't have your staffing secured.     I mean c'mon!  🙄 

I could make Sims Marine dwarf all the other marine repair outfits overnight, but guess what???? No techs !    Duh!!!  🤔

[Flysmallie]

5 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

I guess they got too big for their britches then, hu?   

Don't haul off and open a gigantic store....or multitudes of them... if you don't have your staffing secured.     I mean c'mon!  🙄 

I could make Sims Marine dwarf all the other marine repair outfits overnight, but guess what???? No techs !    Duh!!!  🤔

It's tough to find any employees out there right now. I have open positions in 3 states. You can't even find people to apply for jobs. If you think securing staffing is easy right now I encourage you to give it a shot. 

[mixermarkb]

1 hour ago, Flysmallie said:

It's tough to find any employees out there right now. I have open positions in 3 states. You can't even find people to apply for jobs. If you think securing staffing is easy right now I encourage you to give it a shot. 

I hope your open positions pay enough to live on.

Some of the hardest working people I know are still in desperate measures, because the jobs they have never did pay enough to support a household, and darn sure aren’t keeping up with inflation. We have thousands of people in this country who have full time employment at Walmart and are still qualifying for food stamps, and that’s just one example. 

Pre-pandemic, it pretty much took two paychecks to make a middle class household work in the US. A lot of people I know just decided during the pandemic when child care wasn’t available to simply tighten the belt buckle and scratch it out off of one income, and found that the benefits of having a stay at home parent in the house outweighed the little bit of extra money they were putting in the bank after paying the (insane) costs of childcare.

Until we have a childcare solution that doesn’t cost most of a full time paycheck, those people just aren’t coming back to work any time soon. Add to that the million or so folks who died from Covid, and the numbers who are still dealing with long Covid or the many after effects of severe Covid, and we have a whole lot of people who aren’t going back to work any time soon. 

Most thieves are just lowlifes who will always be lowlifes, but there is a large number of honest, hard working Americans who just happen to come from backgrounds where Mommy and Daddy weren’t around to pay for college, co-sign for that first car loan, teach them how to manage money, give them Grandpa’s old (paid for) house as a starter home, give them seed money to start businesses, etc etc.

Starting a life from scratch when you come from a background of nothing has never been easy, but it’s way, way, way harder today than it was during post WWII America, due in no small part to the lack of good paying manufacturing jobs. I’m not justifying crime, but if we don’t do some serious work on making a blue collar middle class life achievable to the normal kid trying to claw out of generations of poverty, rather than the rare exception, crime is only going to get worse as those at the bottom scratch for scraps. 
 

 

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, Flysmallie said:

It's tough to find any employees out there right now. I have open positions in 3 states. You can't even find people to apply for jobs. If you think securing staffing is easy right now I encourage you to give it a shot. 

We are having the same issue with finding any candidates let alone qualified candidates.