Years ago, I struck up a conversation with an old equipment operator. He told me when he first got hired that his coworkers would have nothing to do with him and would hardly speak to him. After a few days he was really confused and had had enough of it. At break, he walked right up to the group and asked why the hill everyone was so stuck up about him. One replied, you were hired to run the new wheeled loader the boss just got. We have always loaded the truck with shovels and now some of us will get laid off because that machine can do the work of 30 men.
They were right, in due time there was a much smaller crew and more mechanized equipment, eventually around 45 workers down to 7. Now looking at a payloader, it is a great thing that can turn out piles of work although there was a time when workers used hand tools, worked hard and were glad to have the job. They didn't come in to work and turn a dial on the wall if they had a chill, they fired up a coal stove.
That story has stuck with me through the years where I see the back breaking work that our forefathers did. I am sure they b%#ched and complained at work too although they worked while they b%#ched and complained. Yes, you have to progress to build a country and to keep up and keep ahead although in todays time there is some so called
? progression? that is downright scary.
Kudos to the guys and gals in some rural parts of the planet that by choice (I know, sometimes circumstance)still work that way and still fire up that coal stove
