I could go on and on with my union experiences - but my favorite was when I had to work in a telephone company's switch - I had to diagnose a problem on a switch with an operating system I wasn't too familiar with.
It was a difficult job - but the bigger problem was that I wasn't union. I had to sit behind the union guy so he could type for me. My hands couldn't touch the keyboard.
No lie.
It took DAYS to do what should have taken me about two hours.
"B - backslash, no the other slash, the one over the enter key S no not F, S... you backspaced too far, backslash, the other one, S as in Sam... "
Try doing that for two days. I lost my )#(*$#)$ MIND on that one.
My next favorite one was my sister, she was working customer service for a different phone company. Sat for three days unable to take calls (and constantly being berated by her boss for her low daily numbers). The reason she couldn't take calls - the battery in her headset was dead.
She HAD the new 9 volt battery sitting right next to the box - but she wasn't allowed to pop the little cover and swap out the battery. THAT was somebody else's job.
Yeah, unions do SOME good - but when you try to apply a concept that may have worked in a very regular 1890's manufacturing environment to a dynamic modern office environment - it's breaks down fast.
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