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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (85917)11/23/2000 12:32:14 PM
From: Shadow  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
Flap,
A friend of mine worked in a union machineshop in the late 70's.
There was one guy in the shop whose job was to fill
the automatic oilers on the machine tools.
It takes about 5 minutes to do and you could train an ape
to do it.(Only lubeman is allowed to oil a machine)
He's only got an hour a day of work to do.
The rest of the time he hung out in the lunch room. He would also intentionally not oil machines so the tanks would go dry during the night shift or a Saturday shift.
When the tank goes dry, the machine shuts down. Now you've got a quarter million dollar machine down and a $25/hour machinist twiddling his thumbs waiting for lubeman to come to work and pour a quart of oil in a little tank.
Sometimes it took him a couple of hours to get there. Sometimes he didn't get there at all.
If lubeman came in offshift to fill a machine he got 4 hours pay (time and a half) for 5 minutes work. He was paid $16 per hour (in the late 70's that was huge money) and usually managed to milk it for 40 hours straight time and 20 to 25 hours of overtime a week.
The union rep fought tooth and nail to preserve this guys
rights to abuse his employer. The skilled labor was equally abusive.
Needless to say this company is no longer in business.
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