What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[mercury14]

What towns have work?

Different regions have different work prospects, no?

Labor retraining is important. Pipe fitters are sitting around waiting for pipe fitting jobs to return. But since it will require at least 2 more years to get through the housing glut and for construction to return, should pipe fitters just sit around until then? Or retrain into industries that aren't suffering the same malady?

 

[JohnnySavage]

Different regions have different work prospects, no?

Labor retraining is important. Pipe fitters are sitting around waiting for pipe fitting jobs to return. But since it will require at least 2 more years to get through the housing glut and for construction to return, should pipe fitters just sit around until then? Or retrain into industries that aren't suffering the same malady?

Pipe fitters don't generally build houses.

 

[mercury14]

Pipe fitters don't generally build houses.

Damn, well whoever plans and installs the plumbing for new housing subdivisions.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Damn, well whoever plans and installs the plumbing for new housing subdivisions.

I think they are called, plumbers

 

[mercury14]

I think they are called, plumbers

Why not pipe fitters? Those guys are employed by residential building developers too.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Why not pipe fitters? Those guys are employed by residential building developers too.

Pipe fitters do big pipes... in a residential setting, they would do the piping to and from the mechanical units on the roof and the boilers in the basement of apartment complexes. Mostly, pipe fitters are more in commercial and industrial construction (and maintenance).

 

[Beco]

Why not pipe fitters? Those guys are employed by residential building developers too.

plumberd do more on piping systems for heating and air, hvac for commercial applications, heating/cooling sewage, drains, etc.

 

[JackLuis]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...eral-workers/2011/09/28/gIQA3IDt5K_story.html

They need plumbers in Washington.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Why not pipe fitters? Those guys are employed by residential building developers too.

Only as plumbers...

I was in the Fitter's Union.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Pipe fitters do big pipes... in a residential setting, they would do the piping to and from the mechanical units on the roof and the boilers in the basement of apartment complexes. Mostly, pipe fitters are more in commercial and industrial construction (and maintenance).

Exactly. Plants, factories and Power Plants.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Yep, plain ol' plumbers do houses.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yep, plain ol' plumbers do houses.

I once helped plumb a school.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I once helped plumb a school.

I did some work in a school last month, and no one working on pipes there referred to himself as a pipe-fitter - not even the sprinkler system guys.



The only joint-fitting going on was in the woods behind the track.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I once stuck in my thumb, and pulled out a plumb.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I did some work in a school last month, and no one working on pipes there referred to himself as a pipe-fitter - not even the sprinkler system guys.

The only joint-fitting going on was in the woods behind the track.

Yeah, the joke at the Nuke Plant was Fitters Prefer Coke to Pepsi...



... of course, meth was often substituted.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Yeah, the joke at the Nuke Plant was Fitters Prefer Coke to Pepsi...



... of course, meth was often substituted.

Meth = blue-collar coke.


I never saw the allure.


Blue collar Blue Ribbon was enough.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Meth = blue-collar coke.


I never saw the allure.


Blue collar Blue Ribbon was enough.

By the end of the project, the rush was on (thanks to the government's continually shifting standards and rules) to get finished so we were "working" double shifts...

Meth, at least kept you awake.

Not like you could get fired. The iron-workers would simply climb to the top of the dome, latch on and sleep like bats. No supervisor in his right mind was going to go up 4,000 feet and tell them to wake up. They're IRON WORKERS MAN!

 

[RazorBite]

wait til you stupid fucks vote a Republican back in...

 

[JohnnySavage]

Meth = blue-collar coke.


I never saw the allure.


Blue collar Blue Ribbon was enough.

Back in the 80s, when I was a drinking man, PBR was my wake-up drink of choice. Scotch after noon.

 

[trysail]

Why not pipe fitters? Those guys are employed by residential building developers too.

...and you want us to anoint you the world's economic czar ?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Back in the 80s, when I was a drinking man, PBR was my wake-up drink of choice. Scotch after noon.

When the sun crossed the yardarm, the bottle of JD came out.



I was such a snob about it, too.

 

[koalabear]

Pipe-fitter, think welding.

 

[koalabear]

Updated: 09/30/2011 10:54 ET
DOW 11,053.40 -100.58
NASDAQ 2,450.29 -30.47
S&P 1,146.21 -14.19

 

[koalabear]

Worst quarter since financial crisis

Updated: 09/30/2011 05:14 ET
DOW 10,913.38 -240.60
NASDAQ 2,415.40 -65.36
S&P 1,131.42 -28.98

 

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