I have to ‘deal’ on a professional basis with people who don’t know me or who I might know.
Despite this, within a few minutes of being in conversation with them, they will start to talk negatively about the company they work for, or the people who manage it.
These men are, of course, union men. They are ‘hard wired’ to hate their employers. They take it as a given that I want to hear what bastards their employers are. They probably expect me to reciprocate with an equally damning slag-off of my own company.
They have no idea that I might actually really like my own company, no idea of my actual position in my company, and they have no idea, and probably no care, that I might actually know their bosses personally.
As for those doing the moaning. Well. Being the old guard of trade unionism they aren’t actually value for money workers anyway, in my humble opinion.
They have historically managed to twist and turn, and blackmail their way into getting ridiculous sets of practices embedded such that their employers can’t do anything to change and become competitive compared to the more modern companies. The result being that the company is very costly to do business with. The costs are held artificially high by the money and staffing levels demanded by the employees who insist on ‘union rates’ and ‘agreements’ they arrived at 30 years ago.
So, not only are these men getting a very reasonable wage for doing not a lot, but they appear to ‘hate’ the very organisation paying them that over-inflated wage, despite, as far as I can see, their work being distinctly average when it comes to quality and quantity.
If the company eventually closes due to lack of contracts, due to the costs forced by the workers and their ‘union’, of course the moaning workers won’t accept they were to blame. They will somehow manage to slag-off and blame the ‘bosses’. But what would they then do?
I suspect they’d not actually be able to get a job anywhere else. Instead, they’d throw themselves onto the ‘dole’, saying that they’ve paid enough in and so now it’s time for the state to pay them back.
It seems to me that these selfish dickheads really need to stop all this resentment and hatred of their employers. If they actually knew how hard their bosses are working just to keep what contracts they can, to manage to keep the workforce employed, they’d probably still moan and blame anybody but themselves.
Where does all this institutionalised hatred come from?
I wonder if it comes from them being angry with themselves. They probably know deep down inside that they are unemployable in the real world. They are also trapped unable to better themselves due to their inability to progress beyond the career rung they are hanging from.
We’ve seen how trade unionism has closed so many industries across the decades, from the once thriving mining industry through to the recent closure of Grangemouth.
I’m all for the trade unions being there to help represent individuals in times of need or individual dispute, but beyond this what exactly is the point and function of a trade union apart from moaning about nothing?
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