Chad Carleton 🪄📦 (@ChadCarleton) / X

Chad Carleton 🪄📦

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Chad Carleton 🪄📦

@ChadCarleton

Nerd, Operator... Scaled ecomm to $50mm/yr, now a 3PL - @GoodCoShips - 3mm 📦/year. Never too busy. Very lucky. Building in the Midwest.

Springfield, MO

Joined May 2011

Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
I have 200 employees, now 60%+ migrants, 1st or 2nd generation. I’m in Missouri (Hawley country). Let me tell you about the migrant workforce.
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
Replying to @ChadCarleton
You want to protect American jobs? Strengthen the American work ethic. If I recall correctly, it’s the right wing of America that believes you ought to work hard and not take a handout — that merit and a free market is superior. Show me why buying Americans is a good deal…
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
Replying to @ChadCarleton
The average migrant worker is running circles around the average spoiled white kid. *note, I am a spoiled white kid. They’re frugal, thrifty, and communal. The American folks are on their phones, alone in their car at lunch. The migrants eat and laugh together.
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
Replying to @ChadCarleton
The biggest issue America faces isn’t a migrant workforce driving down wages. The average migrant worker is creating multiples more in value than the average American. The issue is Americans are being outworked. There’s no more honest victory than outworking the other guy.
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
Replying to @ChadCarleton
They’re reliable. They’re hungry for opportunity. They’re good hearted people, deserving of everything they’re given. I have several 18-20 yr olds living at home, paying rent and caring for their parents. They don’t take things for granted.
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
Replying to @ChadCarleton
First, they’re all legal. If you’re hiring illegals you are either: 1) small and can avoid mandatory reporting 2) gigantic and can justify the efforts it takes to conceal the risk/reward 3) have no choice because Americans won’t take the job.
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
Replying to @ChadCarleton
We pay 135% of the median income in our area. That’s 85% of the *household median income. We show no hiring preference to any class or status. For every migrant we hire, we’ll FIRE 3 non migrants for being lazy, dishonest, or unreliable.
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
Replying to @ChadCarleton
They’re loyal, and we get to show that loyalty is a two way street. Healthcare, bonuses, extra hours, flexibility….
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
Replying to @ChadCarleton
My biggest problems with migrant workers: 1) 40 hours isn’t enough. I have a dozen working two 40 full time jobs. 2) I have to speak to them in English 3) the non migrant workers.
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 12, 2024
I wrote this in 3 min and went to bed. The next day it had 10mm views. Let's talk about my post immigrant labor.
Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
I have 200 employees, now 60%+ migrants, 1st or 2nd generation. I’m in Missouri (Hawley country). Let me tell you about the migrant workforce.
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
Replying to @ChadCarleton
Let’s clear some things up. Immigrant, not migrant… my bad 😅 We hire 4 people born in America for every 1 immigrant. We’re in the whitest part of America. We pay at the 99th percentile of our industry. White people line up (literally) for these jobs. The immigrants here are
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
We pay at the 99th percentile of our area and I live in the whitest area of our nation
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 11, 2024
Replying to @ChristianHaley_
Nothing about living on a golf course as a kid made me a productive American
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Chad Carleton 🪄📦
@ChadCarleton
Dec 12, 2024
Replying to @ChadCarleton
This post is about two things: 1. I am repeatedly impressed with the immigrant work ethic. 2. I am comparatively unimpressed with the non-immigrant work ethic. This post was not intended to make a statement about the merit of immigrants in the country, legal or illegal.
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