# Plants/Vehicles affected by American Axle strike **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [May 5, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/plants-vehicles-affected-by-american-axle-strike/47945 "2008-05-05T15:40:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/plants-vehicles-affected-by-american-axle-strike/47945/22 "2008-05-05T23:22:01Z")
> [@Slow01S10](#): > > work a week on the line, or any other production job in a plant and tell me about your experience, you would probably quit after it, even if the money is good. My dad is barely holding onto his job, he has 25 years in at GM and is hoping to hit 30 and retire without losing it all before hand. He has done just about every job at the engine plant over the years. I had many other relatives work and retire from GM, also some that worked for and retired from Ford as well. Believe me, its not a glorious job and never was, hes lucky to even see a steady 40 hour paycheck with all the strikes and shit thats going on. Anyone can say that any job is not worth the pay. Is an engineer worth as much as they can make? What about a computer programmer? or even a retail store manager? I know people who do all those jobs for a living and all they talk about is how much time they spent sleeping at their desks or taking care of personal business on company time. At least those people you think arent worth the $60k a year are busting their ass all day long EARNING the pay they get. By the way, what do you do for a living? If you base how much someone gets paid on the amount of physical labor they go through for their job, the world as we know it would be fucking retarded. Of course engineers/programmers etc should get paid more than labor monkey’s. Want to know why? Because it’s those engineers that are creating jobs for the labor monkey’s. If we didn’t have people with the skill level, and design capabilities, than first off laborers wouldn’t have a whole lot to do. And also, they’re jobs would be alot harder. Engineering also goes into making jobs for the assembly lines and such easier. I’m not saying that all engineers deserve their paycheck, but I’d say a much higher percentage of engineers contribute MUCH MUCH more to their company than your average assembly line workers. oh and p.s. I worked for Toyota as a Press Operator, and also worked on the assembly line. I know the types of people I’m talking about. As do a lot of the people replying in this thread. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/plants-vehicles-affected-by-american-axle-strike/47945)._