{"id":2657,"date":"2005-09-09T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2017-12-29T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:22:48","slug":"real-world-a-harsh-mistress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/09\/real-world-a-harsh-mistress\/","title":{"rendered":"Real World a Harsh Mistress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the striking Northwest mechanics should contemplate <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050908\/ap_on_bi_ge\/northwest_mechanics\" target=\"_new\">crawling back to their wife and begging her forgiveness<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Pounds, a 22-year mechanic, said he was thinking of changing careers, maybe selling cars. He&#8217;s had job interviews, but hasn&#8217;t had any offers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are reluctant to hire a guy on strike,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He has also had trouble finding a job that pays as much. <b><blink>Union mechanics made $70,000 a year <\/blink>on average<\/b>. &#8220;The last company I interviewed with, the compensation was a joke,&#8221; Pounds said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last company he interviewed with was probably not relying on government handouts to remain almost solvent, but that&#8217;s unrelated, no doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the striking Northwest mechanics should contemplate crawling back to their wife and begging her forgiveness: David Pounds, a 22-year mechanic, said he was thinking of changing careers, maybe selling cars. He&#8217;s had job interviews, but hasn&#8217;t had any offers. &#8220;People are reluctant to hire a guy on strike,&#8221; he said. He has also had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19226,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/19226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}