Occupy Wallstreet

[streetsweeper1098]

@KrazyKid

unions = :rofl

Want to know why your job sucks, and you hate the people above you? becasue you, like me, are disgusted by people in better jobs than us, making more money than us, doing effectively less "work", and not becasue they "earned" it.

Thank Unions for this.

Since they made it a secret society of workers, and made it "hard" to get into their club, they made it seem like a high and mighty place to be. Contract signed to a Union and they are in. Vast majority sit back and watch the select few Union workers that still take pride in exchanging labor for food on the table.

Its just like highschool all over again. The cool kids lean up against the lockers in the hallway and bully the lackeys around to get what they want. Everyone want to be like them, once they are selected they too follow like sheep in a herd.

To make the never ending cycle worse, all it take is elevated greed and a way to get that contract signed to keep the cycle going. When things dont go their way, and they are still under contract they strike and get away with it becasue they have a strangle hold on the production. And they hang themselves when they need to also. Just becasue you are in, doesn't mean you cant be walked over. Look into the NYS & PEF contract news. I am glad they are finally starting to see why the unions are killing the state. A good friend of mine was put on the chopping block from that, one of the few that actually got things accomplished when they needed to be. While the rest literally slept at their desks.

It all boils down to finding WORTH in jobs and what ever type of labor is involved in them. Get rid of the do-nothings. Let them starve their families, I could care less. Make production worth something again. Make the jobs worth getting up to go complete again. Make diplomas in college a challenge again. END the "work less get paid more" mentality and watch the "middle class" survivors rise to the top again.

I understand that its bad when a union has too much power, but on the other end of the spectrum its really hard when you don't have any pull at all. Where I work, I do several different jobs. Some of those jobs have a lot of prevailing wage work and others don't. At the end of my season I had two different people trying to get me on a "money" crew, if you will, and my bosses didn't want to send me. Keep in mind, the people vouching for me were running the crew. I would have made more money in those six weeks with that crew than I would have all season.

On top of that, I come back for my fourth year and get a dollar raise, brings me up to 11 dollars an hour. Then I have to work with some fat tub of lard who is brand new and makes the same amount of money as me but mommy owns a company and knows the owner of my company. Kid couldn't find his way out of a paper bag.

Meanwhile, the business is having a banner year. The managers, vp, and president will all pull in over 100k… much more for the vp and president actually. I will be lucky to pull in 30k this year including unemployment and I was working my dick off. I've been sent out of town on a thursday with little to no notice to work through the weekend. I've worked with second degree burns on my arm and a chemical pneumonia. I recently just pulled a 21 and a half hour day of physical labor, which is illegal. The whole summer I didn't work less than 60 hours and less than 6 days a week.

Everyone will keep telling me to get a better job and I am sincerely working on that, but what about the guys behind me at my old job? Its going to be the same shit for them. How do you break that cycle?