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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-30-2010 11:40 PM
Louis, It's not the existence or non-existence of breaks that fries my bacon. It is the sense of universal entitlement under which people will lay down their tools as soon as the clock strikes 12:00 noon.
At any job I have worked, people had to spell each other for breaks and lunch/dinner times. This includes retail stores, hotels, theaters and other places. Not everybody could go on break at the same time.
Typically, the first person to arrive at work on time gets to pick his lunch hour. If he wants 12:00, that's his choice. If he wants to go earlier or later, it's up to him. There might be two openings for each time slot. (e.g. Two people can go at 12:00 and two people can go at 1:00, etc.) When one person comes back from break he tags the next person who can go on break.
The actual procedure is inconsequential. It is more important that there is an agreed-upon way to dole out lunch times that is fair and orderly.
It is the sense of entitlement which dictates, "All work stops at 12:00," that I don't believe in. Yes, there should be breaks. Yes, the rules should be upheld by law or by collective bargaining agreements or, ideally, by both.
It should be the parameters of the job which dictate the scheduling of breaks, not the other way around.
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 07-05-2010 03:40 PM
Rick, when my first theater, Cinemark, was being built unionized construction still had control of the building. That is exactly what they did. At 12:00 noon, all work stopped. Guys started drifting back at approx. 1:15 pm. Work would not usually begin again until 1:30 pm.
These guys would do crazy things like wait until we left the building then they would paint all the doors and try to tell us we couldn't go back in until the paint was dry... THEY got to determine when it was dry. This usually took about a half a day.
They spent more time trying to make other people's lives miserable than they spent doing actual work!
I don't care if union dues are $19.00 or 19¢. I do not want any of my union dues money used as campaign contributions or special interest donations towards candidates or causes that I do not believe in. I don't care what your political affiliation is. The fact remains that the UNION decides how to spend that money, not ME.
Like I said, the IATSE local in this town is little better than a bunch of monkeys. Combine that with the childish behavior and the sense of entitlement I have seen in other unions. I don't want any part of that crap!
I am not against the idea of unions. In fact, unions are often a good idea. It is the idiotic, childish, bureaucratic fools RUNNING the unions I don't like. If we could get rid of the idiots, I'd probably join up.
Until then, UNION = ![[bs]](graemlins/bs.gif)
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Richard Hamilton
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1341
From: Evansville, Indiana
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 07-05-2010 04:25 PM
Did you post that finger on Union time?
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Martin,
My problem with unions is that I have run into some real assholes on jobsites and they have an attitude because they are "union". We did an install near Chicago, and all of the trades were "non-union". After the theater opened, almost every night there were screens that were slashed, Toilets that had socks filled with concrete mix dropped in them, and even a pipe bomb. All the pissed off union workers, angry because we hired non union hard working workers.
Like I said in an earlier post, I was doing a job that I had done for years. The factory workers went on strike, and I had to cross the picket line every morning to do my job. My so called "friends", even older ladies would yell and spit at me and call me a "fucking scab". All because I wasn't a part of their little club
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