testing testing testing.... phew! Ok, this forum is NOT lame as I can edit the posts. And I got registered without first completing a 5 year course in how Harry Houdini escaped out out those hand cuffs.
By the way, well done site administration of this forum.
I'm from British Columbia Canada and have some beefs in this drywall trade that I've done for the last 27 years.
First, the tragic poverty years of the 90's forced me to go to Alberta where thay paid more. yeah, I became a refugee in fact, along with thousands of others in the trade who gave the finger to BC in those years.
That's right working for 10 to 12 cents a foot in BC, just got me and others nowhere with the hornet like(no worse than a hornet - a scorpion) government wanting there fair cut of income tax. well *XXXXX* yer tax man.
Yeah I'm hot and need time to cool off, so come back here to read more
later.
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That's right I had enough of BC in the 90's to last a life time. Enough of the 12 cents a foot - enough kicking my foot through the walls in frustration. Enough of living from paycheque to paycheque. I said goodbye to BC as it could not receed in my rearview mirror fast enough. Enter Fort MCmurray Alberta and from poverty to 25 cents a foot - that's right boys and girls. I could now imagine my welfare worker skewered on the end of my middle finger as I laughed while cashing 4 thousand dollar cheques. I met many from the poverty stricken place I had left doing the same thing. Yes, this was as close to a real exodus as I could have imagined.
I spent two years in Alberta with a better life. Things suddenly switched in BC during this time about the beginning of '03. Construction got real busy - unprecindently so. For drywall taping in BC, I am gettiing now 23 cents a foot, not bad but still low.
I'd like to name the drywall companies I've had trouble with during my drywall years. FIrst a real lame ass of a company that I worked for in Edmonton Alberta. KDH (crook) drywall. I did some work in an apartment building they had contracted and at first they paid well. This was a set up though. All the sudden there was talk on the job amongst tapers that KDH required a GST number and that they were forcing tapers to get the numbers or they would deduct income tax. Bad as that may sound, what I did not know was the stinkers were cooking up a scheme to not only deduct from the last paycheque but retroactive as well. Yes, I found out on pay day that my 1800 cheque was only worth 700 dollars!. They had deducted 1100 dollars total. Part of that was from that cheque and a previous cheque. So I got this to say to KDH. Ride my finger for ever!.
gettin hot again later
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Do i sound like a bad ass. well part of me is, but it is not due do to preference but due to neccesity.
In BC right now SEPT 2005 prices for drywall are good. Everyone is living well. Some down right nasty competition is lurking around though The last couple of job sites I looked at were run by east indians. I phoned them and disguised my voice saying that I was looking for drywall work. They are paying 15 cents a foot for drywall taping and 17 cents a foot for drywall boarding
(you US guys call that sheetrock). That is well below the 23 I'm getting. My beef here is that 10 years ago only about 5% of the jobs were run by E.I. Now I would calculate there to be 50% of the job sites run by E.I. drywall companies. I could name names but not yet. This is worrisome. The E.I. won't hire a white guy! . I've tried at least 10 times and have been turned down and I got 27 years EXP!. Don't need the 15 cents a foot anyway.
So what is driving this trend??
increased immigration with no limit
large ethnic families (that goes for anyone! keep your XXXX in your pants as there is currently only 2 acres per person(do the math!!) China is to be commended here - they have XXXX police.
Large families = large houses and more burden on the infracstucture like sewer electric grids and the like.
Ruthless white contractors taking advantage of the immigrants by paying them less (this sounds - wierd - me saying that, but it is a fact)
No formal trades training in Canada required. Anyone that can pick up a hawk and trowel is a drywaller.
Anyway any you might want to reply about now to this stunning post or don't you like Canadians EH.
later
By the way, well done site administration of this forum.
I'm from British Columbia Canada and have some beefs in this drywall trade that I've done for the last 27 years.
First, the tragic poverty years of the 90's forced me to go to Alberta where thay paid more. yeah, I became a refugee in fact, along with thousands of others in the trade who gave the finger to BC in those years.
That's right working for 10 to 12 cents a foot in BC, just got me and others nowhere with the hornet like(no worse than a hornet - a scorpion) government wanting there fair cut of income tax. well *XXXXX* yer tax man.
Yeah I'm hot and need time to cool off, so come back here to read more
later.
----
That's right I had enough of BC in the 90's to last a life time. Enough of the 12 cents a foot - enough kicking my foot through the walls in frustration. Enough of living from paycheque to paycheque. I said goodbye to BC as it could not receed in my rearview mirror fast enough. Enter Fort MCmurray Alberta and from poverty to 25 cents a foot - that's right boys and girls. I could now imagine my welfare worker skewered on the end of my middle finger as I laughed while cashing 4 thousand dollar cheques. I met many from the poverty stricken place I had left doing the same thing. Yes, this was as close to a real exodus as I could have imagined.
I spent two years in Alberta with a better life. Things suddenly switched in BC during this time about the beginning of '03. Construction got real busy - unprecindently so. For drywall taping in BC, I am gettiing now 23 cents a foot, not bad but still low.
I'd like to name the drywall companies I've had trouble with during my drywall years. FIrst a real lame ass of a company that I worked for in Edmonton Alberta. KDH (crook) drywall. I did some work in an apartment building they had contracted and at first they paid well. This was a set up though. All the sudden there was talk on the job amongst tapers that KDH required a GST number and that they were forcing tapers to get the numbers or they would deduct income tax. Bad as that may sound, what I did not know was the stinkers were cooking up a scheme to not only deduct from the last paycheque but retroactive as well. Yes, I found out on pay day that my 1800 cheque was only worth 700 dollars!. They had deducted 1100 dollars total. Part of that was from that cheque and a previous cheque. So I got this to say to KDH. Ride my finger for ever!.
gettin hot again later
-------
Do i sound like a bad ass. well part of me is, but it is not due do to preference but due to neccesity.
In BC right now SEPT 2005 prices for drywall are good. Everyone is living well. Some down right nasty competition is lurking around though The last couple of job sites I looked at were run by east indians. I phoned them and disguised my voice saying that I was looking for drywall work. They are paying 15 cents a foot for drywall taping and 17 cents a foot for drywall boarding
(you US guys call that sheetrock). That is well below the 23 I'm getting. My beef here is that 10 years ago only about 5% of the jobs were run by E.I. Now I would calculate there to be 50% of the job sites run by E.I. drywall companies. I could name names but not yet. This is worrisome. The E.I. won't hire a white guy! . I've tried at least 10 times and have been turned down and I got 27 years EXP!. Don't need the 15 cents a foot anyway.
So what is driving this trend??
increased immigration with no limit
large ethnic families (that goes for anyone! keep your XXXX in your pants as there is currently only 2 acres per person(do the math!!) China is to be commended here - they have XXXX police.
Large families = large houses and more burden on the infracstucture like sewer electric grids and the like.
Ruthless white contractors taking advantage of the immigrants by paying them less (this sounds - wierd - me saying that, but it is a fact)
No formal trades training in Canada required. Anyone that can pick up a hawk and trowel is a drywaller.
Anyway any you might want to reply about now to this stunning post or don't you like Canadians EH.
later
