Subj : Re: How far I've come...
To : MRO
From : Gamgee
Date : Wed Feb 01 2023 07:39 am
-=> MRO wrote to Dumas Walker <=-
> There were still a few die-hard pro-union workers while I was still there,
> but most of them were only in it because they had to be in order to work
> there.
>
> I got laid off in 1996. The plant was closed by 2000, with only a skeleton
> sales staff left over.
<SNIP>
MR> Years later i applied at another heat treater and the guy who
MR> interviewed me was from my old job. he was an ass to me and
MR> didn't give me a shot even though i could have done the work
MR> easy. There is no real union brotherhood.
Or maybe he just knew you were a prick and didn't want you in that
company.
MR> I know a lot of these guys in bbsing work office jobs and think
MR> they are better than manufacturing people like me. They wouldn't
MR> last long mentally or physically in the stuff i've done. I've
MR> fired college boys with no common sense many times.
You make a lot of assumptions, and they're almost always wrong.
Oh, and common laborers working for barely-above-minimum-wage (like you)
don't get to fire anybody.
... Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.
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