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Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 9 Jul 1999 02:26:40 GMT
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cjc@newsguy.com&spamcake&
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
> An example of the warped thinking auto workers have: My uncle (in law)
> Denny is on shutdown right now. He has a planned two week outage. GM
> told him to use vacation time during the shutdown, which seems
> reasonable to me, and that's what everyone is doing (not collecting
> unemployment, by the way, so I dunno what you're talking about, but I
> digress...). Then GM came back and said they need a few people in the
> plant during shutdown, went to Denny and asked him to come in, offering
> him time and a half for time worked and the option of either also
> collecting vacation or accruing it for later.
>
> Denny refused. He's not doing anything except sitting around reading the
> paper and complaining to everyone about how GM made him use his vacation
> during shutdown. He certainly didn't have any travel or big events
> planned. Still, he'd rather collect 1x his salary for doing nothing than
> 1.5x for working. When I asked him why, he said "there won't be that
> many people in the plant, I might actually have to do some work".
>
> Anecdotal evidence, sure, but I have lots of anecdotes like that.
Wow, that's really disgusting.
I think maybe Denny's watched Roger and Me a few too many times.
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