Oh god, please no more. I thought we were collectively smarter than
this.
See? Even droll humour is wasted on union folk.
jk
----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Soper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: James Kaplan KG7FU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: System Admin position - Open
> On 10 May 2000, at 17:40, James Kaplan KG7FU wrote:
>
> > I can't button my (lip) finger on thise one!
> >
> > a) Corvallis is home of OSU, notorious underpayers and former home of
> > one of H-P's largest non Palo Alto facilities. IE: It's a relatoively
> > depressed area, and being a college town they think they can buy
> > know-nothing admins for $8/hr.
>
> That's funny-- my first job was in Corvallis. I started 2 years ago at
> $11 an hour, plus, as I said, full bennies.
>
> > b) You should disband your union. Unions are designed to protect the
> > moron gene pool.
>
> If it wasn't for unions, my 11-year-old would probably be working 60-
> hour weeks in something considerably worse than one of Phil "The
> Whiner" Knight's sweat shops.
>
> Furthermore, my dad was what I'd guess you'd call a telephony
> manger at Southwestern Bell. He wasn't union, but he'd started as
> a union telephone lineman. Those union educational programs
> helped him become an engineer, and the quality of his work got
> him into pretty high-level management. He *always* supported the
> union. Why? As he told me, "your salary and benefits are always
> keyed to what they can get away with paying line workers. They
> bust the unions and everyone who works for a living is going to feel
> the consequences."
>
> $8 an hour, eh? Seems like what he said is coming true. 20 years
> ago, when you could make $14/ hr. in the mills around here, real
> wages were a lot higher in this area.
>
> BTW, I know a number of *extremely* good and dedicated union IT
> folx who would take some pretty serious offense at your crack
> about the moron gene pool.
>
> Cheers,
> Dennis
> "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
> --Noel Godin
