Regarding unions. I can not only provide data, and I can provide first hand experiences…
There was a reason why I put on the “fat_lazy_union_worker” handle before. It was my experience when I was an intern at then wonderful tech company with a “M “in Schaumburg, Illinois…. We had two move two desktop computers and a few equipement down two offices to finish a project deadline for china…
We couldn’t…. Because apparently “moving heavy items” was not something that non-union people could do. We had to schedule an appointment with the moving people, and when we did the most urgent date was two weeks…I shit you not….Me and co-worker went down to the group, and there were a bunch of people yapping away and stuffing their faces with doughnuts and telling us we can’t move stuff, that would be a violation, we can’t do this. It would be a violation..And they just didn’t give a shit whether you had a project deadline or not…That….And plenty of other ridiculous rules that really prevented people from trying to get their job done…Part of the business went to Lucent, if I recall….Saving jobs? Really? With internal B.S. like that, did you really expect M’s heyday to continue… Tell me CAR, justify this is “efficient” and how some union BS crap actually cost a deal and how the people directly responsible didn’t even care about it? I don’t know which world you are from but there are plenty of examples like this…
BTW: futures are way off this morning.
Down down another 100 points… Eventually it will hit your pension. And if you’re in cash, eventually it will eat away at your cash too once we have inflation….
We’re down close 500 points in just 1 week….
So you’re idea of just sitting there and not actively manage your money ain’t gonna work…
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We’ve all heard about the “lazy” union workers and the inefficient policies of some unions. I’ve had similar experiences and used to get into trouble with my union because I would often do the work that people from another union were supposed to do (even though those union members would thank me for making their jobs easier and showed no ill will at all). I get it, and I’m not defending the sort of thing you’ve mentioned here. But you seem to think that your particular experience here should paint all unions and all union members in a bad light. Do realize that without unions, we would look very much like Jamaica, Mexico, Somalia, etc. Unions are what created the middle class and unions are what’s enabled us to have upward mobility for the masses.
BTW, I do actively manage our money and have benefited greatly from the lopsided treatment of income in this country. Seeing it firsthand is why I feel so adamant about how immoral it is. I did far less work for that money than I did for the W-2 wages, and have been taxed less simply because the rich have the power to write tax laws. There is nothing right about that.
