Our Dependencies

[Trev]

<font color=blue>BTW, he wasn't an engineer or anything like that, he just had a gift of being able to see how he could improve the job he was assigned to.</font color=blue>

Sounds like my dad. One day they told him they had to buy a whole bunch of multi-thousand-dollar test devices to check out whatever they were working on at the time, so my dad came home, went down to his workshop, and modified a penlight to do precisely what these expensive test devices were supposed to do. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif The company was pleased, to say the least.

 

[RanchMan]

Cowboydoc -

Excellent post. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Wingnut]

Hello Chuck,

speaking as the most likely designee of the union detesters association ... I'd have to say the answer would be a blunt <font color=blue> NO </font color=blue>
This is not the 1800's or early 1900's. The world is an open book now and a company can't hide anything. In those bygone years, by the time an investogator heard about some bad thing and arrived to investigate it (were there such inspectors) ... aseveral months or a year could have passed. Today, one hears about a plane crash in NC within minutes of it happeneing and the investigators report on the probable cause the next day.
Unless we devolve to the stone age ... we ain't going back there.
As Richard pointed out ... you have a choice. You don't like it here ... move there ... or somewhere else. Heck, I saw on the news last night that MAINE is having a problem with Somalians moving there ecaus ethey discovered the welfare bnefits and sch0ooling is better there than in the south ... word gets around that fast!
So ... now the companies that are non-unionized have to deal with a mobile workforce that has no allegience to them (since the companies no longer value allegience) and therefore have to compete for the best workers.
Can you imaging a headhunter making a living in those early union days? Well ... they sure have no problem making a (good) living nowadays.

 

[saw_dust]

Read it right........how many pages are in it?you never even heard of Ravenswood until you seen my post/w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif ?????


<font color=blue>I've read Ravenswood and I, personally, think it's a poorer work of fiction than Atlas Shrugged </font color=blue>
Wing nut did you lose your cool and make an beligerant statement about me or WVa or something and get your post yanked last night???/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

......xoxoxoxo

 

[utahmule]

Pete,

We may be related by marriage. My brother-in-law may be your brother!! He and my wife are less than two years apart, went to the same high school, had all the same opportunities(and lack thereof), same home life, etc.

My wife paid for college with no help from anyone, by working and loans. Together we make a decent living.

I can't count the number of times he has looked at us and wished he were that LUCKY. Because of course that must be why we have what we do. The concept that it is the result of hard work and sacrifice is completey alien to him.

My health could be better, w/ a number of setbacks and ongoing problems. I'd give anything to be so LUCKY as to have his health. None of my problems have been the result of my actions. That's bad luck. If anything, it has made me work harder, I'll be d*&#ed if I'm going to let that keep me from reaching my goals.

He's smart, a hard worker when he wants to be, but it never comes fast enough for him. If six months of effort doesn't get him a raise/promotion/material gains, it's somebody else's fault and off to the next thing. Waiting for his lucky break.

For him entitlement=Luck=the world OWES him something.

Makes the holidays interesting!!

 

[cowboydoc]

Thanks Ranchman and yourself as well.

Putty I think this story kind of tells what I'm trying to get across.

http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/6116570

 

[Chuck52]

Hey, Wingnut,

Inspector? So you DO want the government to take care of the workers? Holy leftwingers, batman!/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

Just walking away if you don't like your job is a great idea for those who can do it. I can. You can. Not everyone can. Union demands can be excessive, but companies have been known to be less than fair to their workers. I guess I just don't find it all as cut and dried as you apparently do.

Chuck

 

[saw_dust]

Thanks Chuck......for being rational....and realistic...

 

[saw_dust]

<font color=blue>I know the animals that attacked my wife and destroyed her car during a strike were never prosecuted or penalized in any way. </font color=blue>

Wing as terrible as what happened here to your wife,was she working as scab labor,or cross a picket line???I am just wondering what led up to this.

 

[cowboydoc]

Who cares if she was scab labor or crossed a picket line. What possible reason can you give for a reason for what happened to her to have happened? Just like those people had a right to strike she also had a right and made the decision to work. That kind of garbage is just plain criminal and barbaric. There is absolutely no excuse at all for that kind of behavior.