re: Is English still the primary language in US?

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I love and hate that while Mexicans work hard as frick, if it's a holiday, they ain't working. And they will search for a holiday. They will take off Kwanzaa and Rom Kipur.

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Not the ones that work for me.

They show up every day (yeah, they're prolly a tad bit after 7:00AM on the job) and work for ten hours Monday thru Friday, then they put in another eight hours on most Saturdays. Their work is quality stuff. Their framing is square, their connections perfectly match the specs, the finishers provide a flawless level five finish, and they don't cut corners to save a buck here or there.

Americans used to take pride in their work like this, but not so much anymore.

The guys that work for us all have their green cards and have gone through the wringer to stay legal. On two occasions I have been on site when an illegal was working and bragging about how he could work without a visa and told how he had worked around it. The legal guys persecuted and tormented him relentlessly! He didn't last long.

Our guys might take off a day in September for Mexican Independence Day, or another odd holiday that we're unfamiliar with, but they've shown up to work on Thanksgiving when everyone else is taking a four day weekend, they've worked on July 4th, they've worked through Memorial Day weekend and many, many weekends to get a project ahead of schedule or even simply back on schedule when early days of site work had been lost to weather and hindered the entire project.

I think you may have the wrong Mexicans working for you.