King Doctor wrote:Phatscotty wrote:Lol, I joined one? It really does not work that way LOL.
Pure gibberish.
Do you really think that people will believe that you were
forced to join?
Phatscotty wrote:The fact that is was union is totally secondary and had nothing to do with me taking the job. I started when I was 15 and did not have a clue what a union was, other than most people smiled and said it was a good thing...
Because, like you, they were work-shy and talentless, unable to rise high on their own merit they were forced to band together to bully their employer into giving them more than they deserved. Which is exactly what liberals do every time, bully the rich guy to get paid what they don't deserve.
It is amazingly hypocritical that you are still a union member, even though you profess to be a libertarian who can stand on your own two feet. The fact that you haven't had a recent pay-rise or a promotion is your own damn fault; you've trapped yourself in a bubble of mediocrity along with all of the other schlubs that are too scared to do an honest day's work.
HAHA, what you don't know could fill a book. NOBODY gets the cost of living raise. Yup, all my fault! AS I have already pointed out, we still get our scale raises until maximum (yes dumbass, I am maxed out!) And there still exists the potential for merit raises. But as for me, I only can count on CoL raises.
I have had many promotions. I did not get hired as a manager. I have worked my way up. Only hard workers get promoted. Only the lazy ones sit on the sidelines and work their 32 hours/week. The union does not guarantee promotions. It is 100% privately decided. I had to volunteer to work weekends, every weekend, for almost a year, just for the chance to be a manager. And that is what I told the HR director when I applied for Manager. I totally earned it by punching out and then going back to work(old manager secret for the lazy)
. I earned it by not calling in sick more than once every other year. I earned it by volunteering whenever I could and working at 110%. People joke about my shirts, an that my collars are so ironed and straight that if I walked any faster I would probably lift off.
I can stand on my own 2 feet, and have. I totally got out of getting fingerprinted to punch in at work. The union members that you say I love so much laughed and called names, and told other co-workers I was scared that there was a micro-chip implant or something and that I wear a tinfoil hat. The offical line was "If you don't give your fingerprint, you can't punch in." Well, I went to my union-leader with the question, and she said "no problem. You just have to punch in a certain code instead." Guess what, those same co-worker dipshits started to ask me how they can get out of it. Also, about 4 years ago, I asked the owner about union dues and if it were possible to get out of them, and she said "If it really bothers you to pay dues that much, I will match your contribution in the form of a 401a." Every month, 38$ was deposited into a 401a. I guess I am just lucky to negotiate a package for myself from a greedy owner? nothing to do with hard work or talent. I'm sure she does that for every lazy piece of shit.
The union does some good things, as it was intended to do. The letter I get once a year, saying that both of my pensions are 87% underfunded, shows that something went wrong with the unions somewhere. I do not know exactly where or how, but I have a few ideas. I would continue with substance, but you will just ignore all this anyways. I will just finish and say you are wrong on so many levels, I don't think this conversation is worth having. But, I do hope you store this in the memory bank as to how unions actually work, rather than how you think they work.
Overall, the unions are going bust. This is a bad thing. It is ok to be a union member and criticize it and try to make it better. That does not make me a hypocrite. Given that my union and most unions are in deep shit, I think that shows my opinions have been shooting par.
