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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

The Trouble With Unions

You've seen this all before, I'm sure. Ten, twelve guys just standing watching one person perform an apparently simple and possibly meaningless task.

THIS is what makes housing so damned expensive. And everything else. I'm just glad the girl isn't a Teamster, there'd be trucks running into ditches and crossing the center line in the name of higher wages and better benefits for the so-called working man.

1 comment:

j_ay said...

Indeed. Having spent the last few working days at home I witnessed the finesse and complex work of 3 (yes, 3) cuntstruction workers, all probably finely paid, take what could easily be no more than a 3-hour job (they were replacing screws on the buildings new balconies, and I’m being very generous with the 3 hour estimate) into 5 fucking *days*.
There seems to be some ratio of ‘for every minute worked (or “worked”) we get 30 minutes of rest’. Not including breakfast, lunch and chain-smoking “breaks” or checking to see if their little cell phone has a call.

It was the finest display of inadequacy I have ever witnessed. And I’ve worked with some real dimwits.
I was thinking of writing a letter to the company (and my building’s management, who are footing the bill) but this is just simply the way things are now. Laziness is a job quality.
Maybe I should just write a letter asking for a job…I’d be willing to have a lobotomy...