Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 68 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 2:08 pm: | |
Over 200 assembly workers from the Norfolk (Virginia) Ford Truck Assembly plant are being transferred to the Dearborn plant sometime in January. Most of them have not lived in the northern climates like Michigan. Is there a website or something that can help them get acclimated to the Detroit area's way of life? Like a "Facts you need to know about living here" type of thing, in one place? Among some of the facts they need to know is that baby-sitting costs more in Michigan. They are used to paying only $2 or $3 per hour for a baby-sitter (lots of Navy wives in Norfolk and Virginia Beach). Other things to know: how to dress for the bone-chilling temperatures; how to deal with mosquitoes in spring/summer; why you need snow tires; what is taxed and what is not; "it is called 'pop' not soda"; yes- the ground is frozen in winter; we have clay, not sand, in the ground; etc etc. |
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 522 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 2:13 pm: | |
We need snow tires? I'd suggest the visitors and convention bureau for this sort of info. www.visitdetroit.org. Oh and steer them to Warrendale or other nearby Dearborn Detroit neighborhoods! |
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit
Post Number: 108 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 2:16 pm: | |
send em to this website here. And if they can take the time to weed out all the bickering and bs here, they may learn something. |
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit
Post Number: 109 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 2:16 pm: | |
send em to this website here. And if they can take the time to weed out all the bickering and bs here, they may learn something. |
Scottr Member Username: Scottr
Post Number: 102 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 2:24 pm: | |
out of all that you listed, catman, by far the most important is that it is called pop, not soda. somebody truly does need to set people right on that. i'm not even sure whether i'm being sarcastic or not with that, so take it as you will... i agree with DP, we need snow tires? i've never had any, and i don't have any problems, despite my hour-long commute. I once heard on 89X a funny-but-true primer on local traffic for new residents. unfortunately the only parts i remember are that 696 and 275 are our daily versions of NASCAR, and when they were listing when the rush hours started and ended, they said the friday afternoon rush hour starts on thursday. |
Valkyrias Member Username: Valkyrias
Post Number: 390 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 2:26 pm: | |
although it might not be entirely helpful, it is definitely humorous and may help them understand why we talk the way we do www.michigannative.com |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 1553 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 2:28 pm: | |
with Wixom going out and all the others here let go why are they transferring people up from Norfolk? |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 69 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 2:29 pm: | |
Regarding the snow tires...Well, it has been almost twenty years since I've lived in Michigan sooo...ok, some things changed. |
Bob Member Username: Bob
Post Number: 1268 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 2:30 pm: | |
It's all about seniority and the UAW. |
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 524 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 3:03 pm: | |
Catman, you should get those bia-ply tires off your Vega and get some radials. You'd be amazed at the difference in drivability! |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 70 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 3:25 pm: | |
Well, I was holding out for repairs to my 8-track tape deck before getting radials. Don't want my Leo Sayer tapes gettin' chewed up! |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4582 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 3:40 pm: | |
Warmed Vernor's cures all your aches and pains after 8 hrs. on the line bolting radials. If you're working at Dearborn F-150 plant, be sure to pull up your pants. Tourists say "No to Crack." As for Va., it does get cold there. Not to worry, they're not coming up from Florida. They should know that the Dearborn garbage trucks read, "Keep Dearborn Clean" and we all know what that means. jjaba, Westside geographer. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4583 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 3:43 pm: | |
Catman, Dude, tell them that Detroit is not known for good catfish and hush puppies. Buy each of them two on one, lite mustard, onions, at the local Coney Island. jjaba, Westsider. |
Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81
Post Number: 1215 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 4:07 am: | |
So 200 are moving from Virginia? I suspect that then means that 200 already in Dearborn will be without work? Ah yes, the wonderful UAW Seniority Rules. What a joke. VA is cold. Not much different in MI. Other than that, there shouldn't be too much else to show them. Hell, their perception of detroit is probably terrible. Should be easy to live up to or exceed that. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4593 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 1:21 pm: | |
Norfolk is probably like Detroit anyways, with a little more water and military. Detroit isn't exactly a foreign country, although the Dearborn Bourkas might be a novelty to them. Put some Baklava and Babaganousch in their lunch pails. jjaba, Westsider. |
Pistonian_revolution Member Username: Pistonian_revolution
Post Number: 55 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 2:15 pm: | |
they'll all probably move to a detroit suburb. it seems that every foreigner or domestic transplant that moves to detroit gets the message from someone that they MUST live in the suburbs, otherwise they risk certain death. my roommate is jordanian and his girlfriend is an accounting student at wayne, originally from china. she talks constantly about leaving her apartment on hancock once she graduates and moving the suburbs: the apparent location of the american dream. i mean, i already knew all of this and i am not clueless about where they get this beleif: from from everyone. but it just irritates me and they wont listen to my attempts to correct her false-beleif. how do we stop people who move to metro detroit from beleiving the perpetuated myths about the city? how do we stop the cycle of beleifs? besides changing the actual state of things in the city, that will come along as it may. but it seems that no matter what detroit does to improve, people still have a stereotyped opinion of detroit. im sure this has come up on the forum before but- why not ask? |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 3230 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 3:43 pm: | |
When did they stop having mosquitoes in Virginia? |
Burnsie Member Username: Burnsie
Post Number: 802 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 4:08 pm: | |
"we have clay, not sand, in the ground..." Yeah, in the southern half of the state. But up north there's a lot of sandy soil. I know, the autoworkers won't be moving up north as long as they're working around Detroit. |
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude
Post Number: 72 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 4:29 pm: | |
As far as Norfolk area being cold, believe me, it ain't nothing like Michigan winter weather. It rarely STAYS below 32 degrees for more than two days in a row and rarely goes below 15 degrees, non-wind-chill-wise. Mosquitos in Virginia, at least in Hampton Roads area are not a problem like in Michigan. I've have not been bitten more than 2-3 times at once since moving down to VA. But I've gotten dozens of bites in Michigan in one night a few times. What Virginia has that is worse than mosquitos are fire ants, plain ants, scabies, strange spiders, mutant insects that look like a cross between fleas and crickets, and other weird bugs. |
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger
Post Number: 167 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 5:36 pm: | |
quote:"Ah yes, the wonderful UAW Seniority Rules. What a joke."
Why do you have a problem with seniority? This is the fairest way to determine job placement. Perhaps you would prefer favoritism or racial and gender bias as a means of determining who gets what jobs. |
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 4599 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 7:39 pm: | |
Seniority is a keysotne for unions. Don't even think of messing with it. Another big deal for them, is scabs. jjaba can tell you, there's nothing lower than a fukking scab. jjaba. |
Ltdave Member Username: Ltdave
Post Number: 7 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Sunday, December 17, 2006 - 2:18 pm: | |
not all unions use seniority... go to any building trade (electrician, millwright, pipefitter/plumber) and sign the book. if youre first to sign, youre first called. as everyone gets called to work, they progress down the list until (hopefully)everyone is working... although, seniority is definitely a good thing to prevent nepotism, racism, agism and plain ol favoritism... david |
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette
Post Number: 893 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Sunday, December 17, 2006 - 2:24 pm: | |
What Jjaba said. |