Originally Posted by little d

Ok I'm starting this thread to dispel some of the myths of a UNION, and the BULL that corporate America has instilled into the working class.

#1. This is my favorite, " They gave me a job!". lol. I don't know how many times I've heard this one. Unless your sitting at home, doing nothing, receiving a pay check, no one is giving you anything! ( If you are, I want your job, lol) Heres how it works, a company has a opening, they look for the best qualified person to fill the position, period. No one hired you just because they were good people, or took pity on you, or anything else, they hired you because you were the best person they could find to fill the spot they had open!

#2. The company is taking all of the risks. BULL! As a worker, you are a private contractor. You are selling your ability to preform a certain task(s), be it driving a truck, loading and unloading trucks, ect... As a worker, you have a limited time span that you can work, be it 30, 40 years. When you apply for a job anywhere you are taking a risk that the company that you are applying to will manage it right, be profitable, provide you with a decent wage, safe working conditions, ect... It's a partnership, they don't want you to know it, but it is. You are investing you WORKING LIFE SPAN into that company.

#3. If you don't like it you can leave. This is true but, what about the years of service you have invested into this company? You can't go back and recoup the time, it's gone, forever!

I'll post more later as we go along here.

Originally Posted by little d

#2. the company is taking all of the risks. BULL! as a worker, you are a private contractor, you are selling your ability to preform a certin task(s), be it driving a truck, loading and unloading trucks, ect...... as a worker, you have a limited time span that you can work, be it 30, 40 years. when you apply for a job anywhere you are taking a risk that the company that you are applying for will manage it right, be profitable, provide you with a decent wage, safe working condetions, ect..... it's a partnership, they dont want you to know it, but it is. you are investing you WORKING LIFE SPAN into that company.

Originally Posted by Ron-MARS Trucking

Geezus....another lib to contend with.....I'd like to take this one on right now, but I actually work for a living (unlike 90% of the libs) and after going 600 miles today...I'm too tired to even debate another lib......maybe tomorrow.....

Originally Posted by Grouch

If anyone cares to really understand corporations, several years ago a book titled, "TRYANNY OF THE BOTTOM LINE", came out. This book was written by Mr. Ralph Estes a business professor at American Unv. in Washington, DC. It will open your eyes to the world of business.

Employees become "shareholders" in a company by their time and efforts. But the sad part of the business world, they are only concerned with the "stockholders".

For 5 years, I was a CEO's "little boy", I drove his million dollars motor coach, I cooked for him, I ran errands for him, I did whatever the man told me to do. During these 5 years, I saw the inside of the business world and witnessed exactly what value a company actually puts on an employee.

Read 'TRYANNY OF THE BOTTOM LINE", you will get "born-again"!!!!