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Originally Posted by 4X4
As far as this union discussion, I think that the reason people start hating unions (like me) is because we've worked in one and were not slackers. I worked for Calgary Co-op for a couple of years and eventually quit because it was so pathetic how difficult it was to get rid of crappy employees. And alot of these people simply revel it in. Like the ###### in the confessions thread wearing the sock puppet to antagonize his superior. Insubordination is not tolerated anywhere else, so why do union peons get away with it?
And it's the useless tits that continue to be employed that eventually drag down the company. The piss poor attitude of one guy is evident in his work. And then the next guy, who is actually giving it 95% sees that the jerk off next to him is getting away with murder (late all the time, call in sick as often as possible, long breaks, punch out on the very dot of 5) and it erodes his work ethic. And eventually, you have a big mass of people that are all working at 70% capacity that are too afraid to work harder than the other people because it's against the culture.
I know that is a pretty big generalization, but it's fricken true. I saw it at Co-op, I saw it at Canada Post. I was always one of the hardest working people and I was just going normal pace. The union mentality just sickens me. The whole idea of deliberately not getting stuff done to make it take longer to get paid more just goes against my entire being. But the people who like to stick it to the man? Guess where you find them? Working for unions.
Again, not everyone that works for a union is like this, but a whole bunch of them are. A whole bunch. And you just don't find that nearly as much non-unionized setting. Because losers like that get fired.
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I agree with this. Unions are a productivity killer not just on the downside, but also on the upside. Since there's collective bargaining you can't make more than another person in the same position unless you work there longer than them. Therefore there's no incentive to work harder. So for the employer they have to pay net - higher wages for everyone, carry the deadweight of the slackers, AND get less out of their top people. Green text "Well, slap my money down for 1,000 shares in a company that has a built in margin killer!"