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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (195562)	10/24/2001 6:23:32 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I like what I do, and I like the people I work for. What I don't like are the boys in the suits at corporate slapping people on the back with one hand while trying to snitch their wallets with the other hand. Please don't lecture me on "bad attitude." You're a one-man outfit, right? You have no idea of what my situation involves. I sat through nine months of bargaining talks in '97 (maybe 25-30 meetings total) in which the greedy weasels at corporate tried every trick in the book to get their paws on our unit's pension overfunding. Their favorite tactic was to explain a proposal orally, then have the corporate lawyers write it up a different way, hoping we wouldn't catch all the legalese. (But, hey, that's why we hire lawyers, too!) Re: "Good employees can work where they want." Sounds good in theory. In real life it don't work that way. Lots of good employees are jobless today, and the list keeps growing every day. Every day when I call up the WSJ front page there's another story of 5,000 workers to be laid off soon. You're looking out for No. 1; so am I, pal.