Mechanics and some plane Techs have always had to provide their own non-specialty tools. For me this included a computer until COVID hit. When we went back from furlough they announced they were allowing us to keep our own devices or use a company provided one. I didn’t like the initial company provided offering but once they started giving out surface pros I took my personal computer home.
My brother has close to $50K worth of tools and tool boxes. I have probably close to $10K in tools. I have a brother and a sister both who are CDL tractor trailer drivers and they basically had to buy their own rigs. I think there’s subsidies for that but I’d have to ask. Seems like plenty of blue collar workers invest heavily in the tools to do their jobs. It seems reasonable that while collar and tech workers would do the same. Not that they should have to. Just that they would because sometimes even the employer provided specialty tools don’t work for everyone. Just my two cents.
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Mechanics and some plane Techs have always had to provide their own non-specialty tools. For me this included a computer until COVID hit. When we went back from furlough they announced they were allowing us to keep our own devices or use a company provided one. I didn’t like the initial company provided offering but once they started giving out surface pros I took my personal computer home.
My brother has close to $50K worth of tools and tool boxes. I have probably close to $10K in tools. I have a brother and a sister both who are CDL tractor trailer drivers and they basically had to buy their own rigs. I think there’s subsidies for that but I’d have to ask. Seems like plenty of blue collar workers invest heavily in the tools to do their jobs. It seems reasonable that while collar and tech workers would do the same. Not that they should have to. Just that they would because sometimes even the employer provided specialty tools don’t work for everyone. Just my two cents.