Construction! I did this stuff back in my teens and early twenties. And just gonna say: It’s not racist to observe reality. Mexicans, either documented or not, as immigrants here? Work harder than anyone I’ve ever known. They straight get shit done. When I was sweating my balls off and whining like a wuss while roofing a house, my fellow roofer Javier was knocking it out and getting shit done. And mocking me. Which, in retrospect, I don’t blame him for.
Man, what a year it’s been so far. Hope everyone’s doing good.
Same with the polish in Europe. They also work hard. (But I heard of one case where they cut corners, flushing the leftover paint through the drain, causing a few thousand euros in damages due to the drains clogging). But normally, the polish construction workers are very hard working.
I’ve got poles at work. Mostly better and much harder-working people than the English. We only have two Welshmen and two Serbs, and we have no Scots, so it wouldn’t be fair to make a comparison there, but we have a lot of Poles and a lot of Englishmen.
I completely agree on how hard working Mexicans are (my neighborhood is mostly Mexican).
As to the Fast and Furious thing, I am completely unsurprised. I would also be completely undurprised if this was happening under a Republican administration. The only difference would be that the story would be all over CNN instead of Fox.
“The only difference would be that the story would be all over CNN instead of Fox.”
You probably spelled “breathlessly reported all over all the media, instead of just one TV station” a bit wrong.
Trust me, the work ethic gets watered down after a generation or two.
(Full disclosure: i’m a 2nd generation Chicano.)
Just try and build a house with a crew of all-white fully documented Americans…
If they’re anything like Homebase contractors, no thanks. (Look me up on YouTube to see why not.)
Isn’t that called “Habitat for Humanity”? 😀
nit-pick: “Undocumented” Uzi
Here in AZ we call it like this. One Mexican, you get the equal of five workers. Two Mexicans you get half a Mexican.
Still work harder than most laborers, but get too many, and you have to rework almost everything.
OT from everything, crash report: About half the time I click something, I get this or similar:
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I think it’s only racist if you assume all Mexicans are equally hard working, or that because they’re not Mexican, other ethnicities are not. A Brazilian cleaning crewi can’t talk to very well (yes, Srta. Gringa assumed everyone from South America speaks Castilian Spanish,) does in 90 minutes what it takes me a weekend of pissing and moaning to get done. They’re married, argue a lot and still get shit done.
I think it’s more an immigrant thing than a specific heredity thing.
I don’t have the quote handy but Anthony Bourdain said much the same about immigrants being the steam engine of most professional kitchens everywhere in the US. I wish I had half the energy they do >.<
No lie: I did the restaurant biz for 5 years. Including fine dining. Every restaurant I worked at? The kitchen was manned by Mexicans.
If you eat food at a restaurant in America, that shit was probably, statistically speaking, made by a Mexican. And god bless’em.
It is also the same guy that applied for the job at the old shop and that had a past selling grenades.
That if anything should set of alarm clocks. could be that he and his crew wants to be able to build an entrance of their own for some late night shopping later
They’re all felons? At least change all the locks after finishing the work.
Hard working? Yes
Hard on the equipment? “OMFG how did you bend that? And why did you think you could fix it by bending it even worse?”
Just my experience.
Ah, immigrants. We sure are awesome.