(08-28-2024, 04:14 PM)FlickerOfLight Wrote: Is this just another way to screw the working class? One step closer to NWO, and the continual marching of the worker ant?
Honestly, it looks to me more like a plan to prevent employees from abusing "labor laws" to screw their employers.
At my last job, we had a crap ton of kids that didn't want to work, and thought someone should just give them money for breathing. so they would pile in as many hours as they could, usually doing fuck-all, and then lay out of work for as long as they liked, secure in the knowledge they'd get their money for nothing and their kicks for free.
I can't tell you how many "no-show, no-calls" I had there. I just can't count that high. It was a real pain in the ass for someone trying to run a business so that those losers could get any money at all. To make matters worse, company policy was tht I could not write them up for no-call, no-show until the 4th CONSECUTIVE day of it. So if they called in on the 4th day, then they could lay out another 3 days of work without giving me any notice at all. How in the hell can you plan any production with rules like that? On top of that, I couldn't fire anyone according to company policy until I had written them up 3 times - that allows for damn near an entire month of no-call, no-shows before I could chuck their sorry asses out the door and hire a replacement.
No damned wonder that company folded. You can't run a business with any kind of efficiency like that.
Back when I was working, I regularly worked 60 hours a week, often worked 84 hours a week (7 12 hour days), and can recall one week that I got in 129 hours for the week. I have not much sympathy for folks that can't even manage to get in a measly 40 hour week. If you have a job, work it - or else just go fishing and stop pretending you're some kind of "worker".
With that said, I did have the occasional employer that would work the hell out of me and then try to cut my hours to avoid overtime. They would do that exactly ONCE. After that first time, I would refuse their overtime during the early period, and go the hell home. I did have one jackass who tried to tell me the overtime was "mandatory" the second time he tried that, and I told him to kiss my ass, slavery was illegal, I was looking for a job wen I found that one, and I could easily find another... and to "have a nice day" as I was walking out the door. I was a WORKER - I didn't have to put up with crap, because everyone knew I was a worker, and I had no trouble finding a job if I wanted one. It wasn't long before folks realized that if they hired me, they had a worker, and if they crapped on me, they'd have to do another hiring run because I was out the door and somewhere else. That was my "job security" Folks got afraid to fire me or crap on me, because then they'd have to spin the wheel and take a chance on someone that might NOT be a worker.
"Workers", at least in the U.S., don't seem to understand the power they have INDIVIDUALLY, and feel a need to run in gangs or "unions" for their job security. Fuck that. Folks will hire you if they know you're a worker and jobs are available to be filled. No need to gang-up - that actually DIMINISHES your power in the work place and makes you just another cog in the machine. Then you have TWO bosses - the guy that runs the business, and the union steward. I worked one union job. Just once. I only worked it for about 8 months or so and then quit. It was a clusterfuck, and I have no patience with clusterfucks. The union was the SEIU. I don't recommend them for humans or other living things.
As for Agenda 2025, I have no problem with most of it, as it's just common sense. The one place I DO have a problem with it is in the section where they replace bureaucrats with OTHER bureaucrats. They want to replace "woke", Leftist bureaucrats with Right wing bureaucrats. That's a dumbass move, and doesn't reduce the size of government at all. It just replaces one set of unelected Masters with another set of unelected Masters. There ain't no net gain there, folks!
Slavery was made illegal over a hundred years ago. If folks could manage to act like it was illegal, they wouldn't have nearly the problems they claim to have. That is the entire crux of this tempest in a teapot - folks are unable to harness their own individual lives and act like slavery is illegal - they just refuse to NOT act like slaves, and hilarity often ensues.
It's not enough to simply not BE a slave. You have to ACT like your not a slave, and let it be known that you're not.
Pay attention to your employment contract with your employer. If you don't like the terms, don't take the job. If you DO like the terms, live up to your end of the bargain, and require the employer to do the same. Give honest value for your pay, and maybe a bit more, and you'll be harder to fire, union or not. Require your employer to give honest pay for the value you provide him, or else hit the door and re-negotiate with someone else. You can do that all on your own. Unions are for suckers.
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