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Benson – It’s even worse than that. You have to have teamsters load your stuff in (I painted boxes just before they came off the trucks at the loading dock & warned the guys so they said my own crew could do the load-in.) The house electricians don’t have a clue what they’re doing so you pay them to sit in a closet & use your own. The audio engineers don’t know the names of most of the equipment so you have to order an extra console chair for their person to sit in while you run the board yourself.
Only place that’s worse (& that includes Vegas w/ its reputation as the most unionized but which is, in fact, quite reasonable) is New Orleans. I had a 60 projector slide show there & they wanted me to have a union projectionist on every one!
Joe, I don’t think anyone’s beef is with a person’s ability to make a good living but rather what they have to do to make that.
No-one begrudges a brain surgeon’s ability to make millions because they have had to train and study for years to get to that position. Mr Carnegie Hall just has to have strong arms and back and be reasonably organised.
If a business is being overcharged for something thats something that should be addressed bet. the company and the vendor. Believe me, management knows about it and is probably taking a piece.
They have morphed into egregious make-work, make-overtime, shelter the employees from paying what everyone else pays for health insurance, eight week vacation, entitled group of typically overweight, smoking, lazy workers.
Ever see the folks on a picket line???? Shouldn’t they be paying FAR more for their health insurance given what they look like????????
Unions created the middle class in this country. The crabs in a barrel attitude of crying about this group or that group making too much is backward thinking that will destroy the middle class. Let the bailouts go directly to the people who work, not the parasites who play with fake numbers.
Posted by: the chicken at October 22, 2009 9:55 AM
Honestly chicken, I have NOOOO idea. Maybe he does more than a conventional analyst? Like just a title but more of an assistant controller or some sort?
You really want to see legalized extortion in action?? Try out a convention center like the Javits for size. It is un-friggin-believeable. It works something like this:
-ANY work that involves something electrical or mechanical must be done by the Javits/union-approved labor. I’m talking about things as simple as running an extension cord. Heaven help you if you violate this rule, you’ll find that your trade show material was somehow “lost” or destroyed in shipping.
-Once this legal monopoly is established, charge exorbinant rates. “Oh, you want that extension cord run?. That will be $150 dollars, please”.
Ridiculous. That is why so much trade show business goes to friendlier business environments.
Benson – It’s even worse than that. You have to have teamsters load your stuff in (I painted boxes just before they came off the trucks at the loading dock & warned the guys so they said my own crew could do the load-in.) The house electricians don’t have a clue what they’re doing so you pay them to sit in a closet & use your own. The audio engineers don’t know the names of most of the equipment so you have to order an extra console chair for their person to sit in while you run the board yourself.
Only place that’s worse (& that includes Vegas w/ its reputation as the most unionized but which is, in fact, quite reasonable) is New Orleans. I had a 60 projector slide show there & they wanted me to have a union projectionist on every one!
Joe, I don’t think anyone’s beef is with a person’s ability to make a good living but rather what they have to do to make that.
No-one begrudges a brain surgeon’s ability to make millions because they have had to train and study for years to get to that position. Mr Carnegie Hall just has to have strong arms and back and be reasonably organised.
If a business is being overcharged for something thats something that should be addressed bet. the company and the vendor. Believe me, management knows about it and is probably taking a piece.
Dave, watch out for “S” shaped cookies.
They need an analyst to oversee the Million dollar stock option package given to the window cleaner there.
The reasons for unions hardly exist anymore.
They have morphed into egregious make-work, make-overtime, shelter the employees from paying what everyone else pays for health insurance, eight week vacation, entitled group of typically overweight, smoking, lazy workers.
Ever see the folks on a picket line???? Shouldn’t they be paying FAR more for their health insurance given what they look like????????
Stick it to ’em like Stella D’Oro did!!!!!
Unions created the middle class in this country. The crabs in a barrel attitude of crying about this group or that group making too much is backward thinking that will destroy the middle class. Let the bailouts go directly to the people who work, not the parasites who play with fake numbers.
why does Metropolitan Opera need an analyst?
Posted by: the chicken at October 22, 2009 9:55 AM
Honestly chicken, I have NOOOO idea. Maybe he does more than a conventional analyst? Like just a title but more of an assistant controller or some sort?
DIBS;
You really want to see legalized extortion in action?? Try out a convention center like the Javits for size. It is un-friggin-believeable. It works something like this:
-ANY work that involves something electrical or mechanical must be done by the Javits/union-approved labor. I’m talking about things as simple as running an extension cord. Heaven help you if you violate this rule, you’ll find that your trade show material was somehow “lost” or destroyed in shipping.
-Once this legal monopoly is established, charge exorbinant rates. “Oh, you want that extension cord run?. That will be $150 dollars, please”.
Ridiculous. That is why so much trade show business goes to friendlier business environments.