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  • BraveUlysses
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    Originally posted by Quadrajet
    The thought of greasy, bearded, sweaty mechanics getting "freaky" with each other had me laugh. Thanks for the disturbing visual...
    Haha, well there are many women mechanics here.

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  • Quadrajet
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    Originally posted by BraveUlysses
    Zero tolerance here at my work for any union mechanics caught with or under the effects of drugs. Same goes for being caught getting freaky with one another.

    a few were walked out a year ago this week because they had to party a bit too early before our week and a half off for christmas
    The thought of greasy, bearded, sweaty mechanics getting "freaky" with each other had me laugh. Thanks for the disturbing visual...

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  • BraveUlysses
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    Zero tolerance here at my work for any union mechanics caught with or under the effects of drugs. Same goes for being caught getting freaky with one another.

    a few were walked out a year ago this week because they had to party a bit too early before our week and a half off for christmas

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  • joshh
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    Originally posted by Quadrajet
    I know from what I've been told from union members, Petro Chem something or another. One member was flagged the first time being on drugs. Went thru mandatory rehab. Then a couple years later self identified just before the tests went around again. Went to rehab again....A couple years later, self identified... You get the idea. He's now been there at least 10 years, union wouldn't fire him, the Company finally just moved him to a job in the warehouse so he's not dealing with the stuff that can burn or go boom. The Company HR Dept hired him, this example is one of the reasons why I feel HR Dept's are filled with morons.
    It's not the HR dept. The Union will go to bat for those fuckers. A bus driver for Trimet here in Portland made an illegal turn and killed a couple people. Trimet started disciplinary action and the Union stepped in on her behalf.

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  • Quadrajet
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    I know from what I've been told from union members, Petro Chem something or another. One member was flagged the first time being on drugs. Went thru mandatory rehab. Then a couple years later self identified just before the tests went around again. Went to rehab again....A couple years later, self identified... You get the idea. He's now been there at least 10 years, union wouldn't fire him, the Company finally just moved him to a job in the warehouse so he's not dealing with the stuff that can burn or go boom. The Company HR Dept hired him, this example is one of the reasons why I feel HR Dept's are filled with morons.

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  • ethrtyiS
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    Originally posted by future rs
    Exactly. Because they get fired.

    My company recently let an individual go for drinking on company property after hours and having "relations" in the car on lunch brakes.

    Several months earlier an individual was fired for having marijuana contraband in his work vehicle.

    Did it make news? No. Because these individuals where fired.
    this. i hear this all the time from friends of mine.

    my last job, i can recall more than 15 employees being fired, within one year, because of "relations" on work and drug contraband.

    i know plenty of union workers, mostly my own coworkers, who have been caught with drugs and other things and have merely been slapped on the wrist for it.

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  • future rs
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    Originally posted by z31maniac
    Actually yes we do, just no one does stories about it.
    Exactly. Because they get fired.

    My company recently let an individual go for drinking on company property after hours and having "relations" in the car on lunch brakes.

    Several months earlier an individual was fired for having marijuana contraband in his work vehicle.

    Did it make news? No. Because these individuals where fired.

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  • z31maniac
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    Originally posted by reelizmpro
    People don't care about random workers having sex, drinking or doing drugs on the job.
    Actually yes we do, just no one does stories about it.

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  • reelizmpro
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    Of course it happens everywhere but it's just more salt in the wound because these are Union members. People don't care about random workers having sex, drinking or doing drugs on the job. It happens all the time but let Union members do it and it's on the news and apparently a topic of discussion on automotive forums.

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  • mar1t1me
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    Found this story embedded in your link. Looks like the boys at Lockheed do similarly. This happens everywhere.

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  • bmwstephen
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    In 2010, more than a dozen Chrysler workers were caught on camera drinking and possibly smoking some sweet, sweet Mary Jane during a lunch break.

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  • joshh
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    Originally posted by z31maniac
    "Unions are bad, except for the one that personally benefits me"




    I wonder if that would have been done if it hadn't become national news.



    I would not be shocked if they got hired on at a different plant.

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  • z31maniac
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    "Unions are bad, except for the one that personally benefits me"


    Originally posted by mrsleeve
    And so that which can't be done has been done

    http://foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?p....foxnews.mobi/
    I wonder if that would have been done if it hadn't become national news.

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  • joshh
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    Originally posted by mrsleeve
    And so that which can't be done has been done

    http://foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?p....foxnews.mobi/


    Absolutely shocking!

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  • mrsleeve
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    And so that which can't be done has been done

    Last edited by mrsleeve; 09-28-2010, 02:39 AM.

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