Right?! This is akin to a teacher at Edmonds Woodway High School dying of a heart attack, and they send the entire Edmonds School District K-12 home for the day - 2nd and 3rd order effects be damned.

This has nothing to do with insensitivity toward those who are emotionally impacted by sudden, unexpected deaths on the job; it has everything to do with asking ourselves, "Why allow the emotional hardship of a few to become an economic hardship for many?" It's a legitimate question, and playing the "you're a callous bastard for asking that!" card is no different than the radical left screaming "but why do you want kids to DIE?!" because you say you don't believe gun control works.

Ok...first off...L_O_G, I have nothing against you personally.

I don't know how many of other members have personally interacted with members of the ILA (International Longshore Association) union.

But to almost EVERY trucker, shipper or receiver, interacting with the ILA is a giant PITA.

I spent close to 10 years as a semi truck, owner/operator ingoing and outgoing from multitudes of terminals up and down the west coast.

The ILA in general are the most arrogant and hard to work with people in the transportation industry. They could care less if you as a non union contractor get your product or not on a timely basis.

So for them to expect the rest of the planet to pause for a day after one of their members expires is not surprising at all. And God forbid you disagree with that. Your container will suddenly get put on hold for unspecified reasons.

I think Narcissus was a longshoreman.

I know you don't Don. Tust me, there are people exactly like that that work there, but they are not the majority.

From what I have seen down there now 5 years in, is that it's the old school, been in for life guys that are mostly like that. Alot of the shit we deal with is now all directed by SSA, they are the kingpins and dictate how the Port flows.

I agree completely that it's the old guard that is the worst.

I haven't been in and out of any terminal in 20+ years now. But I know several O/Op's that still have issues consistently. It does seems that the biggest complaint is the office and admin help. Not the guys actually handling the cans.

...I hope we don't have a big tornado or hurricane season...........

due to DOE efficiency standards implemented in 2016, the transformer industry had to switch the steel used for the cores to a "grain-oriented type" (aka GOS). This type of steel primarily comes from Russia, so during the scamdemic we had supply chain issues, now with Russia possibly being banned from importing items to the US, that leaves us with one domestic producer. Add to this the demand for this same steel is coming from the producers of electric cars, who use in in the motor cores.

Question: who owns that single source?

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS, Follow The Money...

A nationwide shortage in baby formula is worsening, according to a new analysis, as parents have expressed alarm over the worrying trend.

At retail locations across the United States, about 40 percent of the top-selling infant formula products were not in stock for the week ending April 24, said Datasembly. The company said that it tracked baby formula stock at more than 11,000 stores nationwide.

“This is a shocking number that you don’t see for other categories,” Ben Reich, CEO of Datasembly, told CBS News.

“We’ve been tracking it over time and it’s going up dramatically. We see this category is being affected by economic conditions more dramatically than others,” Reich added.

Previously, drugstore chains like Walgreens and CVS have announced they would limit how many baby formula products each shopper can purchase at a given time.

In a statement, Reich cited inflation, product recalls, and supply chain shortages as why there is “an unprecedented amount of volatility for baby formula.” And he believes that the shortages will continue in the near future.

“We expect to continue to see the baby formula category being dramatically affected by these conditions,” Reich said.

“Baby formula stock, which has been one of the more affected categories so far in 2022, and one that will continue to demonstrate higher than average out-of-stock levels.”

I've seen a number of articles lamenting shortages of baby formula, and today a from a woman who is in fear for her baby's survival:

"My Baby Needs Formula, And I’m Getting Scared She Won’t Have It."*

Now, I understand there may be extenuating sourghumstenches where some infants may require formula, but I am struggling to figure out why a shortage, to the gen pop is alarming.

Did China stop exporting boobs?

(I have fancifull images in my head of ship loads of containers filled with jiggly titties )








* https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/11/my ... 2022-05-11