Unions are AWESOME...

[JNickel101]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,515624,00.html

:rolleyes:

[BIgDaddyChia]

Wow what a douchebag. I would smack that dude If I ever saw him on the streets.

[tbburg]

He's not a douchbag! He's a civil servant, and he's ENTITLED to that pay.

[kujito]

I wonder if he actually worked through his lunch break, or was he allowed the time but confined to the building? Sounds like lunch was provided:
"pizza and beverages were brought in by department bosses."
If he did work the time, I have no problem with him wanting to be paid for that time. If it's just a matter of not being allowed to leave the building, then he's got no footing to argue his position. Don't know how/if he tried to get it resolved before filing a formal complaint. If there's nothing in the union contract or state labor laws about working lunch compensation, well fawk him.

[JNickel101]

I just thought it was funny, given the circumstances....

Maybe he'd rather be dead?

[kujito]

Maybe they should have just let him go out there. Might have created a job for somebody.:)

[Darky]

Fire him for making the union and Social Services department look like a bunch of insensitive, greedy douchebags.

[IslanderOffRoad]

I'm sure he was "working" during that time.

I've worked plenty of hourly jobs. Company lunch? You don't claim that, its still a break, whether you leave the building or not.

[WB9YZU]

I don't see how this is political.
And it has absolutely nothing to do with Unions.

[muddyrocks]

I suppose he will be the next to go off "... disgruntled accounting clerk...".


Unions suck anyway. JMO.

[crazyjim]

Fire him for making the union and Social Services department look like a bunch of insensitive, greedy douchebags.
Bingo. He deserves it but as a person is a douche bag.


Unions as a whole are GOOD for the employee, but at the same time are getting out of control a bit. I'm very pro union, but I'm not a blind supporter, and realize things need to change a bit.

[fscrig75]

I don't see how this is political.
And it has absolutely nothing to do with Unions.

Political maybe, maybe not guess its in the eye of the beholder.

Well he did file the claim with his union and they are looking into it. So it does have something to do with the union.

[5-90]

Gawd. Kinda makes me wish I was his Shop Steward...

[JNickel101]

I don't see how this is political.
And it has absolutely nothing to do with Unions.

Wouldn't expect you of all people to understand.

Given the constant battle w/in gov't regarding Unions, and since they are an entity that exists to "protect people from government" (or from business, however you want to put it), I think Unions and government go pretty much hand in hand. And I also think Unions are pretty political, considering one party is pretty much pro-union, and the other isn't.

AND

Given that if this guy wasn't in a Union, he wouldn't have a leg to stand on....

:flame: on and thanks for your contribution to the thread. Come again.

[Darky]

What's the guy make? $20-$30/hr? Did he put any thought into the idea that by complaining that he lost $20, he's trivializing the deaths of 13 people (I'm not counting the gunman, he doesn't count towards the human race)?

[JNickel101]

What's the guy make? $20-$30/hr? Did he put any thought into the idea that by complaining that he lost $20, he's trivializing the deaths of 13 people (I'm not counting the gunman, he doesn't count towards the human race)?


Ding ding ding!!!! You just summed it all up perfectly....:thumbup:

[Boatwrench]

If the building was on lock down for the protection of the inhabitants...how did the pizza's get delivered? :shocked:

Try this scenario...If the employee had already been at lunch and couldn't get back into the building would he have been paid his wages?


The only post worth a darn in this thread is the one that points out that this employee's claim trivialized the deaths of 13 people.