...but for good reason.
I work with a group of people who are 95% hard working and outstanding. There is 5% that really is working overtime to strain the saint's patience. However, our work environment is fast-moving and stressful and we are Unionized. In Texas that is akin to saying, "And I like to club baby seals in my off-time." but what it really means is that your employers have to negotiate with you for working conditions and wages. Why this remains a mysterious concept to people is beyond me... but I digress. You are also afforded certain rights and luxuries like representation in discipline and a sympathetic ear that is on your side... that isn't a hired gun. Hired for zillions of dollars but no certain outcome.
My sister was recently disciplined for "being mean" to another employee, her supervisor. They also alleged that some time ago (that they never documented) that she self-reported that she was talking bad about another employee (why take a break if you aren't going to gossip?). She, probably in a rare moment of passion, signed their document. She will now have to hope they let her take it back. Because this is Texas. And she is NOT in a Union. And she wants them to become a Union... to prevent this exact sort of thing.
In the FD the Union regulary is "responsible" for preserving people's jobs who should be not only terminated but sterilized as well before the damage can spread but rather than blame the Union I wonder that people do not look out and exclaim, "Oh hell n!. The administration is PAID to manage a high-powered fire department. The best in the nation. You mean to tell me some volunteer at the Union hall is regularly able to defeat the concentrated efforts of the Command staff and all the managers below them to preserve a certified loon's job?!?! Fuck 'em. They get what they deserve." The extracted argument to this conundrum is this, though. The Administration regularly in their hand holds what we deserve. Painful thought.
My first line item of business when I return to work is to run amok. In honor of my sister's 3 day suspention for "being mean" to a grown supervisor.
I work with a group of people who are 95% hard working and outstanding. There is 5% that really is working overtime to strain the saint's patience. However, our work environment is fast-moving and stressful and we are Unionized. In Texas that is akin to saying, "And I like to club baby seals in my off-time." but what it really means is that your employers have to negotiate with you for working conditions and wages. Why this remains a mysterious concept to people is beyond me... but I digress. You are also afforded certain rights and luxuries like representation in discipline and a sympathetic ear that is on your side... that isn't a hired gun. Hired for zillions of dollars but no certain outcome.
My sister was recently disciplined for "being mean" to another employee, her supervisor. They also alleged that some time ago (that they never documented) that she self-reported that she was talking bad about another employee (why take a break if you aren't going to gossip?). She, probably in a rare moment of passion, signed their document. She will now have to hope they let her take it back. Because this is Texas. And she is NOT in a Union. And she wants them to become a Union... to prevent this exact sort of thing.
In the FD the Union regulary is "responsible" for preserving people's jobs who should be not only terminated but sterilized as well before the damage can spread but rather than blame the Union I wonder that people do not look out and exclaim, "Oh hell n!. The administration is PAID to manage a high-powered fire department. The best in the nation. You mean to tell me some volunteer at the Union hall is regularly able to defeat the concentrated efforts of the Command staff and all the managers below them to preserve a certified loon's job?!?! Fuck 'em. They get what they deserve." The extracted argument to this conundrum is this, though. The Administration regularly in their hand holds what we deserve. Painful thought.
My first line item of business when I return to work is to run amok. In honor of my sister's 3 day suspention for "being mean" to a grown supervisor.
