Saturday, January 20, 2007

WORK ETHIC? NOT SO MUCH...

This current project I'm on has turned into a toe tapper. The general contractor keeps moving up deadlines in response to the owners wanting to open the store sooner than the original date.
For us it means 10 hour days M-F and an 8 hour day on Saturday. Our union contract gives us time and a half for anything over 8 hours M-F and Saturdays. This makes for a nice paycheck for us and helps our employer meet the demands of the contractor and owner.
Most of the guys on the crew haven't been doing the 10 hours during the week, they bail after 8 and a few don't bother to show up on saturday.
Well the push is really on now since we lost a 2 days on account of the "winter storm", and our deadline looms over us like the sword of Damacles.
So we had a shitload of people show up this morning to work 10 hours...at time and a half...but wait!
There is also a clause in our contract referring to lost time due to weather, the long and the short of it is today was regular time.
Guess what? Half the crew said "fuck that" and bailed.
Alot of them were angry about it...And here's what I think about that.
You got no problem taking money from the company when it's on a saturday at time and a half, but when it comes down to supporting the job and the company at some imagined sacrifice you jump on your high horse named indignation and leave the rest of us in a lurch.
Thanks...thanks alot motherfuckers.
Don't even think about cryin' down at the union hall when you get laid off after this job. You fucked yourselves.
Needless to say, I stuck around, for 3 reasons:
I need the money.
I support my employer.
I didn't want to leave Rusty in a bind.
I'm dog ass tired and sick of that fucking project, but I'm committed to the cause.
Buncha pussies...BOO-YA!

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