Our economy sucks!!

Sorry guys but I've just got to get some crap off my chest. Here is the deal, I'm a auto tech at a lil family owned(not my family) shop. I'm paid like most techs on a flat rate scale. For those of you who don't know how it work, it's like this. If a car comes in needing a new waterpump, then my boss looks in the book to see how long the specs say that it should take to change it. Lets say it pays 2 hours. If I changed it in 30 min then I still get paid 2 hours. But if I take 3 hours then I still only get paid 2 hours. So I'm only gettin paid if i'm turnin wrenchs. The past few days though I have came to work there is NOTHING to do. I have been sitting on my toolbox on this comp making NO MONEY!!!! Here I am today, sitting around doing NOTHING. I make more money per hour then anybody I know but I'm still not making ANY MONEY. My pay checks are getting less and less and nothing is gettin any better. I can't even work on any of my minis because I simply can't afford. I hate seeing my projects sit and sit and sit. My mazda now is just a shelf in a barn. Damn this pisses me off!

i know the feeling man i left the suto body world last summer because of that same thing and now the jobi got we still are losing money all the time we are going to have 2 4day weeks this month

No shit. The economy in The US and Canada has been in a slump and because of your shitty economy it's slowly dragging ours down too. I've been layed off from 3 jobs in the past year in the automotive and construction anufacturing sectors in the last year.

I'm a licenced HVAC gas tech,and I can't find any jobs that will pay more than $12/hr,and that's a shitty job to do for $12/hr,so I've given up on it and I just work as a temp in a factory for $11/hr where I don't risk dying or hurting myself everyday.

The company I originally was to start working for as a gas tech hired me and layed me off the same day and I have been on call for 3 months and haven't gotten a single call,so it's a lost cause.

Ontario is getting hit hard with job cuts and the high dollar is making it too expensive to do business in Canada,while the companies we work for sell us out and look for cheaper leabour elsewhere to save costs,yet screw themselves and us out of our livelihood (sp?).

My girlfriend is currently in Alberta going to university,and works about 30 hours a week at M&M Meats. She's 19 and just works the front desk/cash and she makes $12.65/hr doing that! Out here,you'd be $9/hr tops for her job.

So instead of her coming back here when she's done school next year,I'm packing up and moving out west where they have the lowest unemployment rate and the strongest economy in Canada right now. Hopefully things will take a turn for the better for us out there,because I feel like I'm paddling backwards out here.

so because our economy is going down, it's taking your country's with it? so basically what i gather from your post, is canada relies on the united states economy to help boost their own?

Believe it or not - that is true of more countries than just Canada. You loose your job and guess what - you stop buying stuff, especially the more expensive stuff that may have a higher markup (i.e. electronics). Guess where most of the stuff you buy is made - in other countries. We stop buying stuff and eventually Ling Sue in China is out of work. The state of our economy should be very important to most of the modernized world.

freekin canadians

blame canada

I do blame canida..lol

I don't know if you listen to the news then,because the big thing up here is that the slowing US economy sliding into a recession is slowly going to drag the Canadian economy down with it.

i blame the french