[quote=CONCHO]….organized labor and all they’ve proved over the years is their ability to get $70k per year for a job a trained monkey could do (and probably do better).
There are an awful lot of posts on this thread made during normal working hours (8-5 M-F). Say what you want about the overpaid spoiled stupid TRAINED MONKEY American autoworker, but one thing I’m pretty confident is that they don’t get paid to sit around making grade school insults at people they don’t even know on internet blogs.
I guess that’s all I have to say. This thread makes me sad.[/quote]
Hah…Well, hell, if I’m going to get paged at 2:30am in the morning, I think my company is going to cut me some slack if I’m in between a software build waiting for a team from india,europe, and the U.S. to finish their source code merge before I sign off of a release.
On an auxilary front…My immediate customers of my side gig pays for the finished software, and not the labor hours that went into it, half of which is coded in taiwan
Everyone’s junior at some point. My excuse is is have about 20 years to reach the maturity of some of the other late baby boomers on this thread, heh heh 🙂
…And…. funny you should mention desk jobs…
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/18/report-workers-with-union-desk-jobs-being-sent-back-to-factory/
In an action that is symbolic of the changes America’s auto industry is undergoing, the cushy “union desk job” is reportedly about to disappear for many. According to The Detroit Free Press, UAW bosses at post-bankrupt Chrysler and General Motors plants are informing hundreds of elected and appointed colleagues that their desk jobs are being sent back to the factory floor.
The Detroit 3 have always paid for union workers at each plant to support labor-management initiatives, conduct union elections, and handle grievances. Most of these “desk jobs” were not at the plant, and they were reportedly enved by those required to do labor-intensive work in the factories
