Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[contradiction of terns]

So are the ships being docked and unloaded yet?

No faster than they were previously.

My back is killing me and I don't want to make multiple posts, so I'm going to add the news article I found earlier to this.
Article (Archive)

Another day and another crisis created by President Joe Biden. The latest crisis has come as a result of Mr. Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate. In the name of “fighting” COVID-19, Mr. Biden has decided to impose forced vaccines on the American people, which has caused a hospital worker shortage. You read that right; Mr. Biden’s order will make it more difficult for those who have been hospitalized with COVID-19 to receive the care they urgently need. This is the upside world we find ourselves living in. This is Joe Biden’s America.

In reality, Mr. Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the rest of the power-hungry overlords in the West Wing are seeking total control of our lives in the name of COVID-19 mitigation, and the American people are finally saying no more. Americans who don’t want the government controlling what they put into their bodies have simply had enough. Mr. Biden’s anti-individual liberty approach is causing organic anti-vaccine mandate coalitions to form around the country made up of Americans from all walks of life and across the political spectrum.

Mr. Biden’s forced vaccine flip-flip - he was once against the heavy-handed tactic - has created an enormous political problem for Democrats. Americans against vaccine mandates aren’t just Trump voters or conservatives or Republicans. Many Democrats, Independents - and Black Lives Matter - are also against the government’s intrusion into our personal medical decisions.

Biden appears on track to go down in history as more inept than Jimmy Carter.

Discuss.

Edit: They don't mention the supply chain issues, but it's about worker shortages, so I figured it still counts.

 

[George Lucas]

Every young blue collar worker I know is very humblebraggy about how they’re making ‘six figures’ and how everyone should give up school and ‘learn a trade’.

Every old blue collar worker I know looks tired and jaded, has some kind of chronic back pain, and talks about how they wished they saved more for retirement. Some even still have debt. The most successful seem to be business owners and don’t appear particularly wealthy.

I’m guessing the young blue collar workers are paying for their own tools and on-the-job driving expenses, have little to no retirement plan and don’t know how to invest or just don’t care, and are in debt from trade school and that brand new F-150 they don’t actually need.

Not to say white collar workers can’t be overconfident either, but they don’t depend on their body for income and their employers generally treat them better: things like retirement and healthcare are virtually handed to them. Btw, I’m talking about real white collar jobs, like being a banker or accountant or engineer. Being a manager at Taco Bell is not a fucking white collar job.

 

[mooey]

UK

Sparkling water is like liquid gold in the UK right now. Whenever I see any in stock I buy some. Need to look into a sodastream so I can just make my own. I miss my cold glass of sparkling water with my breakfast, shit gets me going.

Alongside my 1st world issues (for however long the UK is considered 1st world at this rate), gas companies are going under left and right and the fuel issues seem to largely be affecting the South-East. I moved out of the South-East a few months back, but my friends are reporting constant annoyances. I'm now in the Midlands and personally haven't seen the same problems. Not seen any queues for fuel. I am seeing shop shelves looking empty though.

I keep hearing about Turkey shortages for Christmas and other such dilemmas. If you don't already have a butcher and fishmonger - find one, order your big ass bird early so you and your family eat well on Christmas. I'm starting to get stuff in order especially early this year, not going to have a bad Christmas, not after how boring 2021 has been.

Spoiler: Butcher/Fishmonger Ramble

Seriously, stop buying meat from the supermarket. It's cheaper, better quality and once you build rapport with a Butcher they'll look after you for life. Simple things like being able to call up and place an order over the phone so you know you're not going to leave empty handed etc. Same apples for fishmongers. You'll get a more personable experience and better quality stuff. At the end of the day, they're not a faceless entity like Tesco or Asda so they tend to give more of a fuck.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

I went to the supermarket earlier and found myself walking out with 20 cans of Campbell's soup because it was on sale.
Cheers you niggers, now I'm going to be eating soup for a month!

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Every young blue collar worker I know is very humblebraggy about how they’re making ‘six figures’ and how everyone should give up school and ‘learn a trade’.

Every old blue collar worker I know looks tired and jaded, has some kind of chronic back pain, and talks about how they wished they saved more for retirement. Some even still have debt. The most successful seem to be business owners and don’t appear particularly wealthy.

I’m guessing the young blue collar workers are paying for their own tools and on-the-job driving expenses, have little to no retirement plan and don’t know how to invest or just don’t care, and are in debt from trade school and that brand new F-150 they don’t actually need.

Not to say white collar workers can’t be overconfident either, but they don’t depend on their body for income and their employers generally treat them better: things like retirement and healthcare are virtually handed to them. Btw, I’m talking about real white collar jobs, like being a banker or accountant or engineer. Being a manager at Taco Bell is not a fucking white collar job.

You see this all the time with people in the Oil industry - You can make six figures fresh outta highschool as a Rig Pig, and these people will end up with a brand new truck, a sports car, a mcmansion, and loaded up to their eyeballs in loans for it all, trying to live the high life. They all inevitably burn out by their mid thirties, physically if not mentally, and have to step down towards support roles which pay way less. They'll end up losing everything as their salary drops below their bills, go bankrupt, and be 40 years old with no assets, no savings, a worn down body, and not many options.

The biggest threat to Blue Collar workers isn't the wear on their bodies, its a complete lack of financial literacy and financial responsibility.

 

[Tealeaf]

The biggest threat to Blue Collar workers isn't the wear on their bodies, its a complete lack of financial literacy and financial responsibility.

Most people have lived a low-cost bachelor life at some point in their lives. It’s not something you specifically have to learn to do. Everyone does know how to live frugally and live within their means, they just need to want to. Even converting excess savings into investing is relatively easy and low risk.

The substantial issue is of culture and attitude. If it’s just not socially encouraged to live a reasonable-cost bachelor-plus lifestyle while you earn more than you spend, you’re probably gonna give in to the immediate pleasures of life and try impress your friends too.

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

'We are tired': Workers flee Vietnam's largest city as long lockdown eases

Tens of thousands of people, mostly migrant workers, left Ho Chi Minh City over the weekend as the largest metropolis in Vietnam eased a months-long COVID-19 lockdown, triggering fears of labour shortages and more disruption to manufacturing.

www.reuters.com

Lmao how long branch covidians can put pressure on countries when nobody wants to deal with their shit anymore

Can we renamed it the great city exodus?

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Thia thread is full of two types: those who see blue collar work as a misery to be avoided at all costs, and those who see it as somehow morally praiseworthy.

Both are insane. It's just a less soul-sucking way to not be poor. Not being poor is far more valuable than being rich.

Working a job you at least can tolerate that supports a lifestyle you can at least tolerate is the ideal. Trades/blue-collar work isn't for everyone and it's an easy way to end up with all sorts of health issues within a few decades.

Biden appears on track to go down in history as more inept than Jimmy Carter.

Biden was first elected into the Senate when Jimmy Carter won the presidency. Jimmy Carter isn't too much older than Uncle Joe and is still eligible for a second term, even 97 year old Jimmy Carter would've done a better job this year than Biden has. Fuck, even other failed Democrat candidates like Michael Dukakis (age 87), Al Gore (age 73), or even fucking John Kerry (age 77) could do better and be more respectable just because all the bullshit they'd do was more or less their own idea and not a bunch of bureaucrats and DNC scum fighting over who gets to put their hand up their ass.

Every young blue collar worker I know is very humblebraggy about how they’re making ‘six figures’ and how everyone should give up school and ‘learn a trade’.

Every old blue collar worker I know looks tired and jaded, has some kind of chronic back pain, and talks about how they wished they saved more for retirement. Some even still have debt. The most successful seem to be business owners and don’t appear particularly wealthy.

Funny enough, I've encountered a lot of zoomers working construction, electrician, and other trades jobs, which to me seems to have mostly skipped those born 1985-1995 (besides Hispanics of course).

When I was young, my father (business degree) had to work a concrete job once because it was the only decent paying job he could get, he said it was utterly miserable and all the older guys on those jobs had fucked up backs. That's why he said all the time to me as a kid that if I didn't go to college, I'd be a ditch digger and have an awful life. I'm sure at least some of these zoomers doing blue collar work will end up with health issues at a young age, I wonder what they'll say to their kids? I really hope we haven't gone in the opposite direction as a society based on the garbage "go to college" PSAs in the 90s/early 00s that left millions of people saddled with huge debt and shitty degrees because they had no plan. I don't think society will ever learn that a college degree--or lack thereof--is what you make of it.

 

[Sped Xing]

I'm not sure what special health issues sedentary work avoids, but Americans in general do not respect their bodies and cripple themselves with their dumbass lifestyles and refusal to wear safety equipment. I saw plenty of retards on frac towers take off their masks as soon as they thought they could get away. Oh, Annie, me so thelioma!.

I have also noticed people, in general, are miserable, and it's almost always because they're stupid. They cheat on their spouses, overeat, neglect excercise, drink too much, smoke too much, start fights over petty issues, "vent" anger or sadness rather than controlling themselves. They spend remarkably long hours playing video games or watching television, then stress about not having any time. They try to buy happiness in worthless pursuits such as traveling, gambling, and fashion, then claw at their sides when they can't pay the electric bill. They say "money isn't everything" while worshipping money. They're so stupid they don't even know they're alive.

So, in point, they like to scapegoat their well-deserved misery onto largely irrelevant decisions they cannot easily change. "I'm not unhappy because I sit on the couch all day texting hoes. I'm unhappy because I shoulda been a lawyer / dentist / welder / plumber / train engineer." "I don't need to stop telling lies; I need to make six figures. That would solve all my problems."

My own humblebrag is this: I make about 55k a year from truck driving, when I could, next Tuesday, start making 90k as a company driver, and if I chose to invest in a rig, I could achieve the "six figures" that so many low-iq startedatthebottoms see as the pinnacle of human happiness under heaven. I don't do that, because my job is comfy. I make enough money to keep food on the table, and some left over to put into the farm. I don't work hard.

I do work hard on my farm, but that's because it moves me deeply. My fondest hope is to be able to afford to just farm all the time, and not even do my skate trucker job which consists mainly in moralizing on the internet while parked at a dock. It's worth working hard at my farm because the doing in itself is pleasurable, even when it's miserable.

I say that nobody should ever work hard at anything that isn't worth doing for its own sake. If you wouldn't be willing to take a pay cut down to subsistence level in order to keep doing what you're doing, you have a job, not a calling. Don't put your nose to the grindstone; OSHA would have a fit.

Jobs are all pretty nuch the same if you take them at the level of concern they merit, which is to stay safe and work exactly hard enough not to be on anyone's shit list. Omnes ad stercus.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Campus Chic Fil A (God bless) had a sign up that said something like "please be patient with us during a nationwide labor shortage" and both the campus and outside Starbucks has signs referencing ingredient shortages.

Get off your fucking lazy asses and go to work. I've worked this entire time. Both parents did. All my aunts and uncles did. You do not live in a pure socialist utopia where other people break their backs to fund your Funk Pop anime addiction because you have "anxiety" and "are disabled." Even working some is better than not at all.

I'm really not a 40 hour work week wagie and I don't want to be but just can't wrap my head around not even wanting a part time job.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Get off your fucking lazy asses and go to work.

No U

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

I'm not sure what special health issues sedentary work avoids, but Americans in general do not respect their bodies and cripple themselves with their dumbass lifestyles and refusal to wear safety equipment.

What it doesn't get from excersize there is a trade off later in life, and I think we are starting to see that trade off with early X'ers now who where the first generation to have never really had a physical job before going onto office work where leaving your desk and even loading Toner or paper into the printer was frowned upon as it wasn't your job, your paid to sit in the chair and type who also didn't have hobbies that compensated for it.

I've heard of Early Onset osteo issues being a thing in X'ers and Mellenials and also issues with Gut Distension caused by poor and ill defined muscles being on the rise along side heart, lung and eye problems. However I have also heard that they are also more likely to seek help early so that may throw off the statistics some what. However I have also looked at Cancer clusters and while this may be down to better detection there are some cancers showing up sooner and in larger numbers than would be expected in the same age group.

Supposedly there is a Spike in cognitive problems as well, amongst some groups. Particularly high change technology groups - In the past until relatively recently technology changed once a Generation and once every few hundred years or so came along a real game changer, but the older generations till had value to teach even if they where less "productive" in one area everything else was still valid, however we are reaching a point where people are learning something in year 1 of uni and by year 4 that's out of date, and they are constantly trying to learn to keep up and keep a plastic brain when it should be somewhat firmed up, and this is why we are seeing a massive boom in Nostalgia for people barely in there 30's, leading to a lot of infantilism and premature nostalgia. It's a result of brains trying to stay plastic and relevant and groping out for the past and that's what's going to lead to Millennials having elderly mind problems sooner rather than later, especially when you realise that they are the first to reach out for a external solution for a local problem they can solve with some basic thought.

We're at a interesting point in human development right now and honestly I'm fearful where it goes from here.

 

[Shield Breaker]

I felt really bad because nobody ever offered you the sauce, so I went and found it. Here is a website that tracks 'missing workers' that has stats for the 1.5 million figure. The Wallstreet Journal suggests the missing workers are largely women (specifically mothers) who have decided to stay at home with their children rather than to return to the workforce.

That's me. My boss was a cunt who rode the coattails of my previous boss, and after covid was too incompetent to handle the new difficulties. We lost three supervisors and I was doing their job without a pay raise or promotion. So, I gave my two weeks and now stay home with my youngest. I may go back to work after things go back to normal, but I might not. I am really enjoying it, even if I have less time to shit post on here. Last I heard, her ass is about to get fired if she can't turn things around.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

I’m guessing the young blue collar workers are paying for their own tools and on-the-job driving expenses, have little to no retirement plan and don’t know how to invest or just don’t care, and are in debt from trade school and that brand new F-150 they don’t actually need.

Aside from lack of education, why would they save when they have no faith in investment institutions and social security?

Not to say white collar workers can’t be overconfident either, but they don’t depend on their body for income and their employers generally treat them better: things like retirement and healthcare are virtually handed to them.

They cut back on benefits every year and some industries will not want to hire you past a certain age unless you are a high level manager.
Not sure what's going to some of all this, though.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

Supposedly there is a Spike in cognitive problems as well, amongst some groups. Particularly high change technology groups - In the past until relatively recently technology changed once a Generation and once every few hundred years or so came along a real game changer, but the older generations till had value to teach even if they where less "productive" in one area everything else was still valid, however we are reaching a point where people are learning something in year 1 of uni and by year 4 that's out of date, and they are constantly trying to learn to keep up and keep a plastic brain when it should be somewhat firmed up,

At least in computer tech, the culture at the large companies promote constant production of new technologies which are usually abstraction layers on simpler ones. Its creating a complicated mess no one wants to maintain because you get rewarded for creating "new" tech. These companies, in their efforts to incentivize innovation, have created the opposite and doomed themselves to an unmaintainable mess who maintainers do not understand the foundational technology the abstraction layers rely on. This is why Google creates so many products and barely any succeed. They were never meant to or the team is so out of touch with everything outside san francisco that it fails. There is a theory that the progressive political mentality has created a culture of moving forward without caring for the past and that mentality is inside these companies.

In the end, you must learn these needlessly complicated technologies that constantly change. Its like teenage girls changing their wardrobe every week. You spend all this effort conforming without knowing why aside from keeping/increasing your social status. Every company scrambles to keep up with the latest meme technology which forces industry workers to learn it, and management doesn't know why the need to adopt it. They just know that they do. You then have people who read the trends and will shoehorn these abstraction layers(which aren't needed) at the companies they work for to pad their resume. They will change to another company before it all starts collapsing.

 

[Art Kassul]

The frequent lack of ground chuck (no sneed either) or hamburger in general is the camel-breaking straw. I will not eat the bugs! Or chicken or pork! Pack my chuckwagon full or else I will pull this COVID over right now, mister, and you won't like what happens next!

 

[Lester Jones]

Post 10 demonstrating an Electrical Box Shortage affecting Electricians' livelihood:

 

[Nate Higgers]

Thia thread is full of two types: those who see blue collar work as a misery to be avoided at all costs, and those who see it as somehow morally praiseworthy.

Both are insane. It's just a less soul-sucking way to not be poor. Not being poor is far more valuable than being rich.

I spent all day pulling parallel runs of 250kcmil wire in 90F heat. My soul might not be sucked out, but my back is thrown out.

 

[Jimbobaggins]

Walmart, Target, Home Depot and other large retailers are chartering ships to bypass supply chain problems. Will the strategy save Christmas?

Leasing a ship can cost millions per month, making it an option only for the retailers with the biggest financial resources

www.marketwatch.com

Still can't dock boats if the ports are all full and have a massive waiting list

As Many As 500K Shipping Containers Could Be Waiting Off Ports Of LA, Long Beach

Stock photo: TonelsonProductions / Shutterstock.com Officials say there could be as many as half a million shipping containers on cargo ships off the ports of LA and Long Beach, waiting to be offloaded.

www.kabc.com

On a another note, Inland ports are seeing not much of a difference. (Discounting the rise from the COVID slowdown) Though Duluth has no container port it can still handle many other bulk goods.

http://duluthport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Tonnage-2021-Season-August.pdf

 

[contradiction of terns]

Spoiler: Butcher/Fishmonger Ramble

Seriously, stop buying meat from the supermarket. It's cheaper, better quality and once you build rapport with a Butcher they'll look after you for life. Simple things like being able to call up and place an order over the phone so you know you're not going to leave empty handed etc. Same apples for fishmongers. You'll get a more personable experience and better quality stuff. At the end of the day, they're not a faceless entity like Tesco or Asda so they tend to give more of a fuck.

This is on point and I will add that if you have the luxury of a farmers' market in your area, you should visit them. IDK what Covid did to the network of farmers markets, but we used to have a really awesome one where you could get the cards of all the local ranchers and stuff. They'd even get you the specific cut you wanted if you were willing to pay a premium.

Biden was first elected into the Senate when Jimmy Carter won the presidency. Jimmy Carter isn't too much older than Uncle Joe and is still eligible for a second term, even 97 year old Jimmy Carter would've done a better job this year than Biden has. Fuck, even other failed Democrat candidates like Michael Dukakis (age 87), Al Gore (age 73), or even fucking John Kerry (age 77) could do better and be more respectable just because all the bullshit they'd do was more or less their own idea and not a bunch of bureaucrats and DNC scum fighting over who gets to put their hand up their ass.

Carter actually did a bunch of campaign appearances with Biden and endorsed him or w/e you want to call the whole gay political 'we have to officially announce that we're best friends in public' thing.

Poetic irony?