Wyatt earp
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- Apr 21, 2012
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unfortunately I never enlisted so I don't know about that. But being in manufacturing the past 30 years, the hardest low paid operators have been women, yea they all got paid the same, but the girls always gave a damn , the guys attitude has always been if you pay me like crap I will work like crap.That's rare.I do, just last night I was working on this one molding machine and notice this little girl operator was running the one in front of me and running the one.behind meI just lost my Dentist. She was good, too.
She got pregnant (should have used her head) and decided she didn't want to be a Dentist anymore and is going to stay home and let her Realtor Husband support her.
Good for her.
I'm also losing a VA Doctor. A good one. Pretty, too.
Her husband is some kind of highly successful Corporate Nomad and she got tired of following him from one place to another, looking for a job she can live with so -- She's retiring. At 35.
Good on her.
But bad on the Country.
Dentists and Doctors are hard to come by. They don't grow on trees.
And it's hard work to become one. REAL hard work.
And expensive -- REAL expensive. Not just for the Doctor or Dentist individually, but for the Community and the government that is subsidizing the Universities they have to attend.
Now, the Country is short two HIGHLY Trained, HIGHLY Educated Physicians because -- They just don't wanna play anymore.
Do I blame either of them? Nope. Not a bit but I WILL tell you this (and I told both of them) --
They took a slot away from a Man that would have STAYED in the profession for decades -- Not a few years and then decide it made their pussy hurt.
Some Suzy Cream Cheese wants to go to College to get her BA in Women's Studies or Social Sciences, or something completely a waste of time (what they're really for is an "Mrs Degree')...... ??
Good on them. But don't go to College, take up a limited spot for an Advacned Degree then decide you really don't want to work that hard and stay at home.
THAT'S bullshit.
I have NO tolerance for women that complain they're underpaid.
None
When I worked in a factory for 8 years each line had a female that took the Summer off for medical reasons. When the workload dropped back at the end of the peak season they came back to work.
While in the military women were often sick during PT. When they did show up, rarely did they ever keep up with the rest of us, even when we were running a slow paced Airborne Shuffle.