Quote Originally Posted by Twisterdog View Post

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.