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Originally Posted by richlevy
I asked them for some information on what they were doing and they claimed to speak no English. I was never sure if they were joking. I know the phone company was too smart to hire illegals. But are the contractors and sub-contractors that smart?
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What the subcontractors
are smart enough to do is hire day laborers, rather than repeat employees. They get paid in cash at the end of the day. Though many are skilled enough in certain trades to bring their own equipment, they still rotate among ongoing jobs from day to day, and they prefer it that way. If there's an investigation into the subcontractor, the workers can quickly disappear and only be out one day's wages.