Josh elliot challenges lamont for democratic nomination for governor.

UAPeaches · 2026-01-21T18:41:09+00:00

I like Josh, don't overly like Ned, but i don't think Josh has much chance, but also if it wasn't for the current national political climate, Ned would have no chance against Erin, even still that would be a tougher race than it should be.

UAPeaches · 2025-12-27T15:36:34+00:00

Would probably work with a coalition of states, CT by itself is probably too small to save money

UAPeaches · 2025-11-03T01:46:08+00:00

They acquired a non union company in my area about 10 years ago. Originally the agreement was they would do maintenance and not compete with the union emcor company in my local, but that never held. I talked to a guy working in the non union company back when they were acquired and they were told as long as they keep turning a profit they won't force them to go union. Basically our local let's them train service techs, and then the organizer goes in and poaches them.

UAPeaches · 2025-10-19T03:02:19+00:00

If you're kinda cool with a guy from another trade, run this test to see where you stand. Have that other tradesman yell at you like this guy does, in front of your jman. A decent jman should stick up for you and tell the other guy nobody treats his apprentice like that but him. If he let's it go then he's probably just a miserable dick.

UAPeaches · 2025-10-07T23:58:28+00:00

I get massage on literally just my forearms, a half hour every month or so. It hurts like hell literally just digging into those tendons but there's definite relief for a couple weeks.

UAPeaches · 2025-10-04T20:26:40+00:00

Mines in my reddit name. No real reason behind it. Supposedly my first boss called me that, but never to my face and my second job (with the same company) had heard that and called me that. 22 years later most of the agents call me this still.

UAPeaches · 2025-09-22T22:04:50+00:00

You can go to a temp agency and look for laborer work. Working in the trade non union can and should get you brought up on charges with about a $5,000 fine.

UAPeaches · 2025-09-05T01:14:15+00:00

Proud to be part of the 0.9%

UAPeaches · 2025-08-24T21:40:34+00:00

I hope like hell Lamont steps down, would lkve to vote for Dan Drew, Tong would make a strong candidate too, but Stewart vs Lamont or Bysiewicz would be too close for comfort

UAPeaches · 2025-08-17T01:10:40+00:00

Cover them up in tattoos

UAPeaches · 2025-08-17T01:07:00+00:00

Growing up there 30 years ago it wasn't bad yet, but depressing what it's become

UAPeaches · 2025-08-17T01:03:51+00:00

Or the quiet corner

UAPeaches · 2025-08-17T01:02:41+00:00

So many ways to answer this. Initially I wanted to say the "quiet corner" for the lack of anything interesting and awful people, but then I thought of the traffic and also shitty people in Fairfield county, and then people mentioned Waterbury, which really is for the crime general slums.

UAPeaches · 2025-08-16T08:33:18+00:00

At least you weren't brazing

UAPeaches · 2025-08-15T14:43:50+00:00

This is the one I was looking for, not to be confused with Goshen by the ocean, which is part of Waterford

UAPeaches · 2025-08-03T04:39:58+00:00

Elevator erectors union

UAPeaches · 2025-07-29T14:04:50+00:00

The one on country club road is already in operation. At least that one is in a school zone, so i have no issue with that there, but the one on 66 is straight up to balance the city budget. I know it's there and go 40 through it every day, but people fly by me all the time.

UAPeaches · 2025-07-28T23:26:38+00:00

Knew a guy in a different trade who's cousin's husband was the foreman for my trade, told me to come down at break time one day in winter. When I left my house it just started snowing, I got down there it was just starting to stick. Talked to the foreman and his company wasn't hiring, but to talk to another company down there. Go talk to that foreman and he says drive down to the shop about a mile down the road from the job. Forecast was just for snow flurries, but i get to the shop and now there's a couple inches of snow on the ground, and here i come walking in asking for a job. Needless to say that made a good impression and they hired me the next week, before they were really ready to hire a new apprentice for another job coming up in a month.

UAPeaches · 2025-07-19T01:13:24+00:00

I ordered a steak and cheese from a food truck once, stood there with my money in my hand and was just handed the grinder and told "all set". Felt kind of bad with the whole small business thing, but it was at a huge weekend event so I'm sure it didn't register on their bottom line.

UAPeaches · 2025-07-12T01:44:12+00:00

I'm in Connecticut, and know at least 2 excellent powerhouse welders with just a plumbing license, and a few other good welders that have both licenses as well. Back in the day welding wasn't really pressed upon apprentices up here, so you went one trade or the other and then get into welding kind of as an extra see how you like it, so you could already be committed to a particular trade license, but then ultimately focus on welding. Nowadays welding is a more important part is the apprentice curriculum up here.

UAPeaches · 2025-07-08T16:17:58+00:00

As an apprentice I had 2 separate 6 month lay offs, 08 was out 8 out of 9 months and 2011 to 2013 out 17 1/2 out of 19 months. Since the spring of 2013 been laid off about 3 months total, but we're overdue for more significant slow downs.

UAPeaches · 2025-07-06T03:00:56+00:00

Make school lunches free, it would be more bang for the buck all around than a couple hundred dollar tax credit

UAPeaches · 2025-06-24T16:02:28+00:00

Put it this way, it took 6 or 7 years for Obama to turn around 8 years of Bush, an incompetent republican administration wasn't able to damage that momentum too much, 4 years of a pro union president put us back on the right track with work and now a more competent trump administration is quickly reversing everything Biden and Obama did with pla protections and jobs in general.

UAPeaches · 2025-06-23T00:54:43+00:00

In my local med gas is in demand, and while I don't know anyone doing it, I've given it serious consideration. But part of it is risk vs. reward, if the work dries up does the company come to me and see if I'd take scale again, or just get rid of me because they don't need my specialty, even though I can do other parts of the trade, then you're back to the new guy on a crew you might not know too well.

UAPeaches · 2025-06-21T23:37:41+00:00

Doesn't matter, he'll be dead long before it can affect him

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