Thread: Damned Unions!
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Old 08-09-2011, 09:52 AM  
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Unions are horrible.

I worked at the local Telephone company in the 1990s - Pacific Bell. I worked in operator services, as a 411 operator. It was stunning. Any high school graduate could get a job there, and the amount of money they paid was obscene - $70k a year (and this was twenty years ago!).

The staff was mostly older people - protected by the unions. Get a job there, do the basic minimum, and you can work for the next twenty years without working all too hard. After a few years I began to transition into management and had to do employee reviews - and it was comical because 90% of the staff hit the basic minimum requirements, never did anything more, and when you looked over their stats you see that's exactly how they did since day one. Why bother to do more when the Union protects you?
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