cyranoVR's Journal: Woo! We're eating at Sizzlers(tm) tonight!

Yesterday right before I was going to leave for the day, my supervisor came to me with good news: my year-end bonus going to be twice what it was last year! Which has lead me to thinking...

Those Unions are populated by nothing more than a bunch of shiftless cry-babies. If they want to earn more or improve themselves, maybe they should try working harder and putting their collective noses to the grindstone. They want to be paid more just for deining to show up for work (which they are supposed do anyway)??? Maybe they should try angling for a promotion like the rest of us, or if they don't like the pay at their current job they should go find another one.

And another thing: the CEOs are exposed to the greatest personal risk of anybody, so of course they deserve the greatest financial compensation.

In fact, if it wasn't for Management, those cry-baby workers would be sitting at home watching Jerry Springer, unemployed. Do you think any of them has the conviction to pull themselves up by their bootstraps like the intrepid Captains of Industry have? Unlikely. Their sloth is the reason they are stuck in crappy union jobs instead running their own business or calling the shots as a proud Manager. They deserve the lot they have chosen for themselves!

This is America, and everyone should have the Freedom to work where and for as much or as little as they want. Today, I have recognized my past error. I say: Unions, NO.

Unions

[FortKnox]

I've worked on both sides of the fence with unions.

When unions were formed they were needed. They protected the employee, and made sure the employees weren't taken for granted.

Now-a-days, though, unions tend to protect the slackers and bad employees. Its a side effect of their purpose. They still are 'good' in general, but a little outdated for today's times.

Did you fall and hit your head? (nt)

[gmhowell]

(n/t)

UK Firefighters

[pocra]

The unions here in the UK have been bugging me the past couple of months (as in annoying me, not as in discretely surveilling me); The Firefighter's Union has gone on strike, their cheif spokesman saying their families will literally starve if they don't get the 40% pay rise they demand, and that all they're asking is "an extra £0.80 an hour", and that while on strike most firefighters have had to turn to begging to survive... but I'm surviving well enough, while earning a half of their basic starting salary - they're getting £22,000 (c. $33,000) a year at the moment, I'm temping at £10,500/year. I agree that they should get a decent wage - more than they get at the moment - it's a hugely important, very dangerous job. But... I still don't like the BLATANT LIES that their union spouts to the press. (And I don't like the fact that, while on strike, they do their best to make working difficult for the "armed forces" people brought in to fight fires in their absence (to the extent of refusing them the use of publicly-funded equipment (forcing them to use decommisioned equipment dating back forty-fifty years) and picketing the routes to fires.

Hey! I've just done my first angry rant for a few years! Well, that'll hold me another couple of years...