lazy crane operators..
 

$250K/year isn't enough? Good grief!

https://news.yahoo.com/lazy-crane-operators-making-250-200100567.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/D9...7ca9f886f7a591

That's what you get with unions.

If you work too fast, the Teamsters/Gangsters Union boys come visit you with a suggestion to slow down before you "accidentally get hurt". (I know this from friends who used to belong to the Union).

My neighbor was a longshoreman/crane operator and made a TON of loot. Though he had been in the union since the 70s and had to do some damn hard physical labor in his first 15 or so years. But after that... it was gravy train city. He would make a full days wages for just showing up then leaving or taking tickets at the cruise terminal. He didn't work all that much in the later years but still made the big money.

That's nothing. Harbor pilots average $434k a year.

https://www.businessinsider.com/harbor-pilots-make-six-figure-salary-high-fatality-rates-book-2021-9?op=1

I can run a crane…. Where do I sign up? I’ll make sure those trucks are getting turned around quick.

All at a job that a teen boy could prob do with a few hours of practice.
(maybe an exaggeration. But prob close to true)

3 to 4 hours per container? 3 / day max? It would take a month to a ship.

I have sat in the cab of a crane to watch the operator. It's a skill..but nothing complicated.

A job AI could easily take over…robots not even needed.

It mentions some automated cranes in the article, and says they are way faster.

It says the trucks wait that long on line to get their load, not that it takes that long to unload each container.

“The crane operators take their time, like three to four hours to get just one container.

My wife was in the freight business about 17 years ago. She tells me that a port in places like Singapore or Hong Kong (they use to rank the world's #1 and 2 due to the sheer volume and San predo and long beach combine was third) can unload a container ships 3-4 times faster and accurately compared to the longshoremen in the US and they will work 24 hours too. Its automated and the union mafia do not want that here. That's why we have a shortage of everything (and no truck drivers), and shipping has gone through the roof with ships waiting out at sea. Some experts think that some of the ships will be waiting out at sea until next summer before they are able to unload their cargo. Hey, they don't care if these companies that rely on shipping of their goods go out of business. TAlk about fuel, and pollution.

I know someone who is a longshore(wo)man. Doesn't surprise me a bit.

Same. A family member was a longshoreman. He’d get to work bright and early. Draw his assignment for the day so he could get his pay, then he’d leave to go run his construction company and come back in the afternoon to check out.

Yep, I posted somewhere else that I wouldn't be surprised if the unions were behind the bottle neck at ports, of course with the white house's blessing.

I’m sure the pandemic has nothing to do with it. [emoji2357]

Well deserved.

If history is our guide then I suspect that automation will make its debut sooner than later.