Explain something to me please..

[Twisterdog]

The only soap box I have to get on is == In all of this wanting bailouts I have not once heard anything of lets cut some of the pay back.. Come on I heard some of the workers get anywhere from $47.00 to $76.00 An Hour.. Come on dont you think thats a bit much & could use some trimming there??

When I lived in the mid-west in the late 80's, the auto manufacturers were THE place to work. This was because membership in the UAW union pretty much guaranteed you a job for life, no matter what one's skills or motivation were. And the wages were a LOT higher than other jobs in the area, three or four times the amount. It was certainly an artificially inflated and maintained work force.

I remember in one of my management classes in college watching some footage from hidden cameras placed on the assembly lines of the big three American car manufacturers. A large percentage of the workers were talking with each other, reading a magazine, sleeping, eating, etc. while the parts that they were supposed to be working on rolled by them untouched. It was SCARY, and made me vow to never buy an American car again. Then we were told the wages those people were making per hour, and it was doubly shocking.

I'm not saying this is the way it is or isn't today, I don't know.

[RICHARD]

I remember in one of my management classes in college watching some footage from hidden cameras placed on the assembly lines of the big three American car manufacturers. A large percentage of the workers were talking with each other, reading a magazine, sleeping, eating, etc. while the parts that they were supposed to be working on rolled by them untouched. .

What happened to the marbles that they would drop into the door panels?

Unions are a good/bad thing. They encourage people to work in industries that were thought to be 'for life' jobs. It also breeds crass behavior by workers who abuse the system and the companies who abuse the workers.

I was a 'union man' for years. Slowly, the companies started to bring in management who earned a position by going to night school and never ever stepping into the work arena.

Now you have 20 something year olds-No offense meant to them, some are way more mature than their counterparts-who have barely learned to wash and wipe their rear ends that are put into positions where they think they know more that a 20-25-30 year employees.

Instead of putting the new hires thru a probationary/introductory period with the company, they allow them the power and position of a "little tyrants" who learned how to lead from an online class on management.

I think the airlines should hire pilots based on people who learn to fly on PCs and Nintendo games.