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Eclipse3130
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: CubePusher]
#26874261 - 08/10/20 11:07 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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All the 23qt prestos are overpriced. I was lucky to get one a few months ago for $120 shipped.
Just an hour ago I decided to say fk it and bought an AA 75x electric for $880 shipped. Lots of them available.. pretty big investment for the average grower though, $880 is the cheapest I've seen them around
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LogicaL Chaos
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: Tstone]
#26874329 - 08/11/20 12:50 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah they are selling out fast. maybe a used one?
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dothedew69
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#26874405 - 08/11/20 03:47 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah all that is left is sterilizers but they are going really fast. I ended up with a pc because I want to mess around with agar and didn’t want to have two machines kicking around right now. Plus I’ve spent a bit just getting equipment and materials together to restart the hobby lol. They’re working on ramping up production, they say by December they will start filling orders again lol.
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Aablmd82
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: dothedew69]
#26874486 - 08/11/20 06:21 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I second Rural King if you can find one nearby. I just bought a 23 qt Presto from them last week
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jcm4620
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: Phrontist] 1
#26874504 - 08/11/20 06:38 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Phrontist said: Manufacturing is going to be impacted relative to how many human hands are required to get the product made. Relatively speaking, glass jars require hardly any human hands, as most of the process is automated. Pressure canners, especially larger ones with lots of individual parts, require human hands at many different points along the way.
Production lines are usually fine tuned to be incredibly optimized. Removing just one person from it means a whole new, less optimized process needs to be established. Just gets slower and slower with each person you have to remove.
lol well there is plenty of ppl out of work right now so i say we need to take these fuckers that are just sitting on their asses getting 600$ + unemployment benefits a week the fuck to work at factories and start churnin out some god damn pressure cookers,,dehydrators,nitrile gloves,isopropyl alchohol and all kinds of other shit. this fuckin b.s. has gone on far too long and its time to start gettin the fuck back to work i mean christ i ordered a fucking 55gallon drum of iso how craxy is that lol
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Seamuss
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: Aablmd82]
#26874505 - 08/11/20 06:39 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I called presto. I couldn’t find one back in June when I was wanting one, I ended up calling presto directly wondering if there was a discontinuation we didn’t know about. Apparently on top of extra preppers who are now getting into canning because of COVID-19, the actual manufacturing has been dialed back dramatically due to employee cutbacks in the workplace, also due to COVID-19. If you call presto, you can get an exact date on when they will be revieving their half of their new prestos and the retailers will be receiving their half directly from the manufacturer. This is what I did and I was able to order one from ACE and I had it on my step in 3 days after ordering. You can also call your local ACE, Rural king, Home Depot, etc and ask them when they will be receiving their new shipments as well. I thought I would never find a PC but it is possible, they’re just suprisingly being affected as well
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Phrontist
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: jcm4620]
#26874608 - 08/11/20 08:22 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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jcm4620 said: lol well there is plenty of ppl out of work right now so i say we need to take these fuckers that are just sitting on their asses getting 600$ + unemployment benefits a week the fuck to work at factories and start churnin out some god damn pressure cookers,,dehydrators,nitrile gloves,isopropyl alchohol and all kinds of other shit. this fuckin b.s. has gone on far too long and its time to start gettin the fuck back to work i mean christ i ordered a fucking 55gallon drum of iso how craxy is that lol
People aren’t walking away from jobs, they’re being laid off. By corporations and their executives who had already received billions in tax cuts and then received billions more. I don’t begrudge someone who got laid off $600 so they can scratch together a semblance of survival for themselves and their family. The executives who are doing the laying off, who still have their jobs, who have retreated to their second or third homes in less populated areas safer from COVID... I might begrudge them $100,000 in new tax loopholes.
And I sure as hell wouldn’t expect anyone to put their own life, nor the lives of their families and communities in danger just to remove all effort from my hobby related shopping. Maybe that’s just me though.
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dothedew69
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: Phrontist]
#26874642 - 08/11/20 08:47 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Phrontist said:
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jcm4620 said: lol well there is plenty of ppl out of work right now so i say we need to take these fuckers that are just sitting on their asses getting 600$ + unemployment benefits a week the fuck to work at factories and start churnin out some god damn pressure cookers,,dehydrators,nitrile gloves,isopropyl alchohol and all kinds of other shit. this fuckin b.s. has gone on far too long and its time to start gettin the fuck back to work i mean christ i ordered a fucking 55gallon drum of iso how craxy is that lol
People aren’t walking away from jobs, they’re being laid off. By corporations and their executives who had already received billions in tax cuts and then received billions more. I don’t begrudge someone who got laid off $600 so they can scratch together a semblance of survival for themselves and their family. The executives who are doing the laying off, who still have their jobs, who have retreated to their second or third homes in less populated areas safer from COVID... I might begrudge them $100,000 in new tax loopholes.
And I sure as hell wouldn’t expect anyone to put their own life, nor the lives of their families and communities in danger just to remove all effort from my hobby related shopping. Maybe that’s just me though.
Walmart is hiring like crazy lol. I have mixed feelings on the subject. Yes it’s there to help the people who were laid off, I’m totally for that. At the same time I have people literally trying to get fired so they can collect unemployment. Dead serious I’ve had people beg me to fire them. I’m an asset protection manager, last person you need to be asking that. These people won’t be able to collect however. For businesses to stay open or re-open they have to comply with state and local ordinances. There’s tons of regulations being considered just keeping your business open. I can only imagine in manufacturing they had to greatly reduce the number of people in the building at one time. I have about 20-30 people calling out of work a day it’s the only reason why we’re hiring. Even changed the fact if you miss 4 weeks of work regardless of your position, your current role is not protected. We’ve replaced several managers unfortunately. The businesses need to keep running regardless. They just have to conform to all laws unless they want to go bankrupt or keep their doors closed during this health crisis. If people were more cautious and didn’t do things like go to 4th of July parties or Memorial Day weekend, we would be on the decline.
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Eclipse3130
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: dothedew69]
#26874703 - 08/11/20 09:29 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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The unemployment benefits aren't active right now anyway
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bodhisatta 
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: Eclipse3130]
#26874719 - 08/11/20 09:40 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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People are walking away from jobs like mad lol. I am trying to keep my workforce at double capacity and most temps disappear after a couple days. Meanwhile most of the full time employees have been here over 5 years.
Every business in my town has a for hire sign. From manufacturing to restaurants to fast food. The only place I haven't seen looking for people like crazy right now is the airport.
No business I can think of is laying people off.
Plenty of businesses were killed because of covid overreaction but any surviving business is hiring.
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jcm4620
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: Eclipse3130]
#26874730 - 08/11/20 09:47 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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jesus christ ppl cant even take a sarcastic fucking joke. the joke was i had to buy a 55 gallon drum of iso. but since ur talkin opinions heres mine. nobody deserves more than what they would get for working in the first place period. hell ive been workin the whole time and have lost hours and a lot of $$ wheres relief for the working man 🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼 there aint none. whoopy 1200$ ppl are getting that every 2 weeks and i get nothing. all that 600$ does is prevent ppl from going back to work cuz they make more on unemployment. so im all for ppl getting exactly what they would make if they were working but the problem is even ppl who only made say 300 a week now get unemployment for that 300 plus 600 wheres the sense in that. and wheres relief for ppl like me who have had hours cut and cant barely get by cuz ive been lucky enough to still have my job but im goin deeper in debt by the week wheres my relief. so i say if ur gnna take care of ppl who aint workin take care of rhe ones who are workin also. i dont want 600$ id be happy with the 270$ im losing every week just by going to work on 30 hrs instead of 40. but i dont qualify for relief cuz they tell me oh u make too much money. well wtf now everyone who aint workin is makin more than me if i was workin full time. i mean come the fuck on
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Phrontist
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: jcm4620]
#26874749 - 08/11/20 10:01 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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bodhisatta said: No business I can think of is laying people off.
Think harder.
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-layoffs-furloughs-hospitality-service-travel-unemployment-2020Quote:
jcm4620 said: all that 600$ does is prevent ppl from going back to work
It prevents millions of people from falling into literal poverty and homelessness. We should say fuck those people, and shut down all benefits because some people try to game the system for a few hundred bucks? We also shutting down the stock market because insider trading happens? All major sports because some athletes juice? How about all churches because priests rape children, or all gun production because some people use them for murder? Maybe it’s time to stop allowing people to buy pressure cookers. I’ve heard some people use them for growing illegal substances.
Or maybe we operate systems around the vast majority of people who aren’t the problem, and deal with the shitheads when they inevitably come around.
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jcm4620
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: Phrontist]
#26874771 - 08/11/20 10:13 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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i did t say that i said they shouldnt be getting more than what they would get if they were working. if they made 500$ a week before they should get a total of 500 now not the 500 from unemployment plus 600 out of my tax dollars fuck that
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jcm4620
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: jcm4620]
#26874775 - 08/11/20 10:17 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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same here bod jobs like mad but were slow due to ppl not going back. were a small job shop and we rely on other small job shops we got places here goin out of bus cuz there ppl wouldnt come back to work and now they got no workers
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natedawgnow
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: jcm4620] 2
#26874821 - 08/11/20 10:50 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Maybe if some businesses paid better, employees wouldnt feel like theyre better off milking the system. If youre mad at someone, be mad at the fed for making min wage 7.25/hr and the states who follow suit.
If people were paid better they wouldnt feel the need to milk the system perhaps.
Classic trope though. Instead of being mad at the fed, be mad at your fellow man trying to take advantage of a better existence
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dothedew69
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: natedawgnow]
#26874863 - 08/11/20 11:17 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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natedawgnow said: Maybe if some businesses paid better, employees wouldnt feel like theyre better off milking the system. If youre mad at someone, be mad at the fed for making min wage 7.25/hr and the states who follow suit.
If people were paid better they wouldnt feel the need to milk the system perhaps.
Classic trope though. Instead of being mad at the fed, be mad at your fellow man trying to take advantage of a better existence 
I’ll be honest paying a higher wage rarely equates to a more productive worker. We could pay $15, and we’ll some people get $15 up to 19 and they’re still lazy mofos. So why pay so much and get the same quality from paying $12. You have to hire 5-10 people in a few weeks just to find one that has maybe average performance and hiring people costs money. So pay less on the wages. If someone turns out to have a brain and a great work ethic, they get promoted and earn the $15-$19 an hour or hell make a decent salary. It’s what I did, I started at $8.00 an hour and I wasn’t happy with it. So within a year and a half I promoted 3 times and make a nice living wage. The youth today is hopeless. No work ethic these days. I would rather pay $10 an hour and have the option to increase wages for people who earn it. Now when it comes to a CEO or high level management, you typically get what you pay for it. Low level jobs however I’m not on board for paying these insane wages when 80% of the people I see looking for jobs are garbage.
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natedawgnow
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: dothedew69] 2
#26874883 - 08/11/20 11:26 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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If you want to justify paying people shit wages that's fine with me.
No skin off my back or mushrooms out of my tubs. Just dont complain when workers take advantage of a system that allots them more.
I started my own business cause I was tired of working for people with half my IQ and earning a shit wage while doing it.
Part of the issue with min wage being so low is it allows corps. to under pay for even skilled labor.
I worked at the largest research facility in the south doing skilled analytics. I worked 5am to 5pm m-f and had school tuesdays and thursdays from 530pm-7. I made $11 an hour and thought it was good pay because texas min wage is 7.25
Even after all the overtime I still only equated to 16-17/hr for skilled lab work. Big business takes advantage of such a low min wage big time.
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: natedawgnow]
#26874903 - 08/11/20 11:33 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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thats why there shouldnt even b one let the job market dictate the wage
Edited by jcm4620 (08/11/20 11:35 AM)
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natedawgnow
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: jcm4620]
#26874918 - 08/11/20 11:39 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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No way do I trust and corp. or business to pay anybody a fair wage without one.
Do you really trust corporate america that much?
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dothedew69
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Re: Anyone have luck locating PCs lately. [Re: jcm4620]
#26874921 - 08/11/20 11:39 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I never complained about people using the system lol. Only thing I said I had people trying to get me to fire them. Heck I just cut their hours, they’ll have to quit before I fire them lol. Skilled labor gets rewarded with promotions at least where I work. 9/10 people are pure lazy, can’t even walk at a snails pace. Each industry is different, retail does not need to pay $15 an hour for a sales associate. Sure there is the desirability and you can hire more people until you find the one you want. But if they’re making that much they will be hired with benefits and every time you fire them you paid the benefits up front. It’s expensive. Like I tell my associates asking to make more money, work hard, learn, apply for promotions. It’s really simple.
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