Frontier Ends Mandatory Overtime Emergency Status > This really pisses me off...

This really pisses me off...

reply to dmxrob6
then maybe your SO should think outside the box. Mine? She's gonna have a baby and i'm going to bring in the extra income by picking up extra contract work. Life isn't handed to us on a silver platter. You have to get out there and earn what you make and not expect to be entitled to a job, etc.

People tend to forget this.

The whole mentality of 'go to school, earn an education, and work a job for pennies on the hour' is finally catching up to people.

How is this for a teaser? I never went to college, i don't have student loan debt, and I make a hell of a lot more than you.

Get out there and earn your living or tell her to do the same. You might think i'm being an ass, but i'm not. If i can do it, you can.

I never said i was better than everyone else. I'm tired of people bitching that their aren't any jobs and we should be 'grateful' that our 'masters' (employers) allow us to keep our 'jobs'. You all have the ability to find your own path. Not many people realize that. This is the reason why 95% of the wealth is controlled by 2% of the population. They've figured that out. Modern day slavery at its best.

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reply to dmxrob6
You need to redirect your animosity. You should be mad at these OT-enforcing employers not the workers. Your SO is out of work because companies like this are forcing existing workers to work overtime instead of hiring your SO to do the work.

So in the end they get shoddy work from overworked worn out employees, that will feed a cycle of more rework, and required OT. Instead of doing the proper thing for the community and just hire more workers long term.

reply to dmxrob6
Well I'll tell ya what. I feel bad for people that are unemployed and seeking work and not finding it BUT...it's a matter of perspective. It's the grass looks greener syndrome. Most likely, people that think they'd like this scenario would become the complainers after a while anyway. Have you ever been forced to work that much? You might be real happy about it in the beginning but after a while you'd get tired of it, especially when you try to go home and "the man" is telling you that you gotta go back out. Tired? Too bad. Get hurt or have an accident and it's your fault. Why? Because you've been trained in all aspects of safety. Then the thing is to tell the boss it's not safe cuz you're too tired and don't want to put "anybody" at risk. Most workers don't mind working a reasonable amount of OT and some don't want any and some will take it all. Workers should complain if they're not being treated fairly. All workers. Union or not. Being overworked is not as fun as it may sound.

reply to JasonBourne
These guys aren't doing anything they didn't vote for in their contract. I find it funny that they complain about it, yet they are the ones who voted for it. Sounds to me like the union isn't doing its job, or they aren't reading their contract. Either way, nobody's fault but their own and I stand by my statement of if they won't do the job under the conditions they VOTED to do it in, then someone else can.

If they didn't want to work that much they had ample opportunity to craft a contract that forbid the company to do that.

For what its worth, I do agree they should hire more workers -- but then again the union and the contract doesn't allow that, or makes it a process that takes far too much time and effort to do so. No company is going to hire 100 additional workers to take up the slack if they know they can't reduce the labor force in 6 months without a fight from the union. There are plenty of part-time and temporary workers who probably would jump at the chance, if it was allowed.

I really question the value of unions and contracts nowadays.

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