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n/aLolly Yrlas age 52 wakes up her husband Rick age 51 a Quality inspector at GM Flint Truck and Bus Assembly on Monday, May 15, 2006 after his shift ended at 3:30 pm and she returns from her job cutting hair. Rick says the buyout is “a gamble” for his family and Lolly Yrlas, 52, is reluctant to quit her job.Rick Yrlas gets up at 5:00 am on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 to punch in for his shift working as a Quality inspector at GM Flint Truck and Bus Assembly.Flint, Michigan has been know as a city which spawned generation after generation of auto workers. many of which leaving high-school and turning right to the car factories. many auto workers work the rest of their lives on assembly lines assembling automobiles.Rick Yrlas starts his shift at the G.M. plant in Flint, Mich. where he’s worked for 30 years.Rick Yrlas 51, a Quality inspector at GM Flint walks down his assembly lined where he works at the GM Truck and Bus Assembly. He’s waiting to hear if he gets promoted to a different position as he debates taking a buyout and retiring from General Motors.(center) Lolly Yrlas age 52 from Flint Twp., MI working BoRics hair salon to make a supplemental income to her husbands on Monday, May 15, 2006. She used to work for GM years ago herself and took a buyout. Now, her husband Rick Yrlas, age 51 from Flint Twp., MI a Quality inspector at GM Flint Truck and Bus Assembly, waits to hear if he gets promoted to a different position and debates taking a the current buyout and retiring from General Motors. (Left) Dawn Pike age 38 from Flint, MI (Right) Amanda Curnutt age 22 from St Charles, MI.Rick uses an asthma inhaler after exerting himself from drying his classic Chevy Impala after washing it. in addition to respiratory problems he says he developed from working in a car painting facilities, Mr. Yrlas’s colon ruptured three years ago and he was on sick leave for six months, collecting half his pay. The bills started to pile up. The last few years, he said, ”it just seems like I’ve been playing catch-up.”(left) James “Skip” Blanton from Burton, MI and friends gather with Rick Yrlas age 51 from Flint Twp, MI on his back porch on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 to listen to the Detroit Tigers Game and drink beer.Rick makes tamales in his kitchen at home to bring to work with him where he sells them for a dollar to his fellow factory workers. He thinks he’ll go into a business catering tamales full time depending on his fate at GM.