[The Hunter of Jahanna]

Americas fat lazy overpaid workers have been their own undoing. Why pay a worker $15 to $20 an hour when you can move your whole operation over seas and get better workers at half the price?? I work in the restaurant industry and it has been my experience that foreighn workers work twice as hard as american workers. Where I live it is the spanish people you want in your kitchen. They show up on time, every day and just work. Most of them want to work 6 days a week. My last job had 20 people working in the kitchen. Only 5 of them werent spanish. Out of us americans only 4 of us worked there for any length of time. The 5th spot kept getting filled with a culinary school grad who just couldnt hack it. In the 2 years I was there we went through 6 of them. My new job is as a manager at a travel plaza on the NYS Thruway. We have 70 employees working for us. Out of that 70 we have about 10 spanish people. Thoes 10 work harder and make more an hour than the other 60 americans we have working there. All I hear all day from the americans is "My back hurts, I want my 5 min break, When can I go on my half, the garbage is too much of a mess for me to clean up,Its too busy and I cant keep up, some one help me do XYZ". Its just one complaint after another. Conversely the spanish people never complain and always get their work done. Our night crew is made up of 4 to 6 people , most of them spanish and they get the whole travel plaza cleaned,restocked and ready for the next day. You never catch any of them sitting in the break room or hideing out in the stock room. If my american workers worked like my spanish workers I wouldnt need to have 70 employees.