Posted by Samurai tell me again that unions are bad things...

They're communist.

Posted by KublaKhan They're communist.

From my experiences of working with unions, I'd say that they are fascist.

Lazy fucks who manage to buffalo the management into thinking they're irreplaceable.

For the past four months, I've been working on a crew away from the people who I've worked with for 5 of the past 6 and a quarter years I've been working at the plant. These people are not only my friends, but they are damn close to family for everything we've been through together.

I relieve a lazy fuck who is untrainable and manages to bullshit his way through anything and everything. He does nothing but what he has to and leaves his messes for whoever comes in behind him, on top of that, he treats his assistant like dirt and treats people who actually matter like shit. On top of this, his assistant is also a lazy fuck.

My friend, who I worked with for most of those 6 years, recently got a move up in the line of progression, and has been working 3-11 on this crew this week. What really pisses me off is they treat him like dirt even when he's tried to fucking help them.

I came in last night not only to a mess, but to my friend struggling with the machine he's running and neither of those bastards around to help. Both of them were fucking off doing absolutely nothing within line of sight of said machine, myself and my friend. I ended up getting permission from a manager to punch in almost an hour early to go help him and try to clean up the mess.

The straw that breaks the camel's back of all of this...I asked both of them specifically to help my friend, even if they did nothing else this week and left me a fucking mess every night. Add to it the bitching that both of these assholes do to me and management about getting trained as an operator on that machine. It's all I fucking hear lately.

So, I spent most of last night getting shit ready for my friend and coworker to at least make his next couple days a little easier. Basically going through the run schedule order by order and looking up the material locations and finished item specs, which often takes 80 percent of the prep time and writing them down so all he has to do is go get the materials and run the machine.

What it boils down to...I HATE LAZY FUCKS. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Email message from the plant manager: Wishing everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend.

Ha! Since the plant is closing they want 2 printing presses that are being shipped out well cleaned. That means out of the whole plant there are about 20 of us that have been mandated to work the weekend to clean at regular pay. What a slap in the face that email was. Can't wait till my drop dead date of May 10th.

Posted by shellyl Email message from the plant manager: Wishing everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend. Ha! Since the plant is closing they want 2 printing presses that are being shipped out well cleaned. That means out of the whole plant there are about 20 of us that have been mandated to work the weekend to clean at regular pay. What a slap in the face that email was. Can't wait till my drop dead date of May 10th.

My condolences on your separation.

I heard about your plant closing through the grapevine where I work. Apparently IP shipped stuff to your company at one time.

This weekend is when I would get sick. I have in the past.

Easter isn't a paid holiday for anybody anymore...so I'd say fuck it and call in sick that day.

I wish that I had sick time to take. I just have to suck it up so I don't screw up my severance pay.

Have to give 3.5hrs of training this afternoon. I hate talking in front of people.

Cologne is not a replacement for a shower. It just makes it worse. Also, do NOT stand in my personal bubble of 3-5 feet if you can't comprehend that. Me moving away from you, that's a hint.

Customer: "Is this the price?"

Me: "What does the price tag say?"

Customer: "$64.95"

Me: "That's the price"

Posted by Oryx Customer: "Is this the price?" Me: "What does the price tag say?" Customer: "$64.95" Me: "That's the price"

Oh I HATED that when working at Radioshack. Or I'd get "What's the price/how much is this?" while a gigantic price tag stares them in the face.

Posted by jellybeans95 Oh I HATED that when working at Radioshack. Or I'd get "What's the price/how much is this?" while a gigantic price tag stares them in the face.

Haha yeah I got that all the time there too. I especially loved, "Is this REALLY the price??"

No! We like playing the guessing game.

Posted by Oryx Haha yeah I got that all the time there too. I especially loved, "Is this REALLY the price??" No! We like playing the guessing game.

I'd get "So how much is that with tax?" Yup, I know that off the top of my head.
Or "Why is it so much?" Because we hate you.

I once had someone ask "What's the price on that?" I replied with "$200" (Mind you, it was just a computer keyboard). They go "But that tag says..." "Oh, so you DID see it!"

Or there's the people that aren't in touch with reality and think car parts that are actually on the cheap end of the spectrum as far as that part goes in comparison to other types of cars and flip out over the price. And then stare and hmmm and haw and randomly ask for discounts.

People who promise shit they will NEVER be able to deliver on to get what they want.

I've busted my ass for two years for a lousy 250 dollars every three months as an officer in our local union and the whole lot of us who spent those two years working together to make things better got our asses kicked in the election earlier tonight. I wish I could take back the things I've done for other people, the sleepless nights and bullshit I've endured at the hands of an ungrateful bunch of assholes where I work.

Beaten a bunch of idiots who have NO FUCKING CLUE what they're getting into.

All because the seven of us didn't promise what a few hundred people want, a 12 hour shift schedule. One that will make lives worse than they already are. Sure, you get to work 3 or 4 days out of 7, but the other 3 or 4 that you're off you will have to be able to come in to work and carry a fucking pager. So you can't go anywhere. Someone gets sick, you're stuck coming in for them. Someone goes on vacation, you're stuck on extra shifts for a week. Whether you AGREED to it or not.

On top of it, the company will be able to save money by cutting upwards of 100 people, a whole operational crew. They say no right now, until they see a few million dollars in payroll and benefit savings from getting rid of by laying off or not replacing those 100 people by making us run 12 hour shifts with 3 crews instead of 4.

Oh, and the kicker of this...get this, we have to vote on this mill wide, the vote has to be UNANIMOUS for it to happen. That means every person in the whole fucking mill has to vote YES on the shift changes for it to happen.

As long as I am alive and work there, that will not happen. I refuse to let it happen.

All I can say is don't come crying to me when you fuck up the taxes or the payroll and you get beaten next election because you can't deliver on your bullshit promise. Good luck and fuck you...you selfish bunch of mother fuckers.

There...I feel better now.

Upper management sends out an email this morning saying I must attend a meeting on April 1st at 10:00am (Today is the 19th) ?? WTF 10 minutes later a correction email is sent out by another supervisor. So 1. The first supervisor didn't even notice the date was wrong. 2. It took 10 minutes to correct that? Seriously? Should be an interesting meeting. I hate this place!

Being shorted 7h on my pay cheque and apparently we don't get holiday pay do Easter Sunday... So I'm missing that 6h shift ontop of it. Given that I'm part time, 13h missing is a pretty big chunk.

I could go on and on about working nights at Tim Horton's.. It's only two of us and we have to clean the entire store. No time for breaks. I haven't had a single break in a week.
I fucking HATE when I'm in the middle of cleaning and some one pulls up to the drive through and shout "HELLO??" and just start hollering their order when I don't answer the very second they pull up,
OR! If the drive through is SUPER busy and clogging up fast and some one orders a stupidly big order and takes 5 years to choose what it is.
Or if some one gets a million Ice Caps. Those are so stupidly time consuming to make. :/
AND I ALWAYS have to clean the bathrooms Every night, I hate when people piss all over and everything and clog up the toilettes, people are pigs.

I could complain all day.
Also they surprised me with Baking so I have to do bakers training which is shit.

I'm having one of those days, well, fuck it, one of those weeks where I feel like I'm just repeatedly banging my face off a wall without making any headway.

I'm sorry if I care about what I do. I'm sorry if I know what the fuck I'm doing with our computer system, I'm sorry that I know how to fix shit and spend a lot of time working on figuring out how to fix shit. The problem is, fixing shit takes TIME. Time that no one wants to give me.

I am beginning to think I need to hold a kindergarten counting and reading class for about 100 people where I work who just can't fucking seem to read order numbers.

Order numbers are seven digits where I work, for example, this is what they look like 1234567, item numbers are -10, -20, -30, etc. Sure, they get the damn order number right...but they fucking forget to match the item numbers. I get two pieces for wrapping, they're bundled together, the order number matches, but the fucking item numbers don't...so I can't get a shipping label without making changes in the computer system and this takes time, so yes, if you fuck up correct bundling, I will get behind on my work and you will get backed up! Then you will call me wondering why and I will try to explain it to you, and for the ten thousandth time that you need to pay fucking attention!

Now how fucking hard is that to understand?

Suppose you get two pieces of material that have the order numbers 1234567-10 and 1234567-20...they are not necessarily for the same fucking order and CANNOT BE BUNDLED TOGETHER!

Is this hard to understand? Because I certainly don't think so.

My 4 year old nephew got it when I explained it to him with his number blocks. So why the fuck can't adults get it too? Do I need to take Ben's blocks to work and explain it the same damn way?

After the past two days, I'm about fucking ready to.

I can manipulate the item numbers in the computer and make them match, but it takes TIME. Grrrrr.

why do you give a fuck?

Sheal, you stress waaay too much. can't you just kick the bundle back down to them and say get it right and wash your hands of the issue??