Subj : How far I've come...
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Jan 31 2023 14:09:18

  Re: How far I've come...
  By: Rob Mccart to MRO on Mon Jan 30 2023 12:53 am

 > Admittedly, at one time, they were needed and in some places they maybe
 > still are, but I always found that hard workers are difficult to find so
 > most companies take pretty good care to keep them happy because there are
 > always other offers out there.

To put it in terms a Communist would understand, the power Unions hold comes
from maintaining the monopoly of workforce supply. If enough workers could
operate out of the parameters the Union wants, the Union is not effective by
itself (ie. the Union cannot set prices for the workforce if enough workers
negotiate their own prices by the side). Hence Unions act like mobs to survive.

I think most big companies nowadays are unable to identify which workers they
have are hard workers and which ones are plain burdersome. The reason is that
Western companies have bloated themselves with so much management people that
the Directives calling the shots only know what midle ranks tell them. That is
VERY BAD. 100% of the medium-to-big companies I know personally have very
severe issues with this. Maybe a radiodiagnostics service has three
radiologists in it, with one doing 70% of the work. This fact gets lost because
nobody is paying attention. Then budget cuts come and the hard-working one
threatens to leave if they don't give her adecuate equipment or whatever
(because there is severe Dr. scarcity and she can switch employments faster
than you can switch underwear). The midle-manager calculates "Ok, this one must
be doing 33% of the work, so we let her leave and replace her with a new guy."
She leaves and they get a new Dr. fresh out of college which takes 33% of the
load, leaving the department defficitary because the group now has no
capability to push his own way up.

I am not complaining. Karme is a bitch. The West will pay the price for
management overbloat. The only problem I have with that is I am trapped there.


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