Another crazy thing I want to mention. I worked in Appalachia, so what would happen is, the companies would send illegals up from way down south, and sometimes they would hire them at like Miami wages, and then send them up here, and if they had friends who wanted to join them up here, they would offer them the same Miami wages. So you ended up with illegals who stood around doing nothing making more money because they would only hire locals here at local wages (you had to hire locals if you wanted skilled workers who could actually have the job).
So you ended up in a situation where our climbers and foremen would literally be getting paid less than the day 1 hire from Miami who doesn't even know how to do the job. I'm not kidding.
For me this is more of a problem with the companies themselves, but it's ultimately one of the main reasons I quit. When the company finally relocated me to another major city, and tried to keep me at my local wages 3 states away, and then proceeded to hire new locals off the street with zero experience at a much higher rate, and when we inquired about it, they said that's because their local wages were much higher so they had to do that to be competitive. Uh hello idiots, you moved us into this ghetto hotel 600 miles away from our family, if you want us to stay, at least pay us similar rates to the kid you just hired off the street who can't even do the job lmao.
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