Yeah, a bud related a union story to me. He did all sorts of odd jobs in his “career”, including roadwork.
So they get a mixer with full load inside (hot asphalt, tar, rocks, whatever’s in the mix), and it stops turning. Everyone’s sitting around doing his job (ie, nothing). He sees it’s something in the chain that spins the barrel. Either it’s fix it now, or it cools down and solidifies into black conglomerate that’d have to be jackhammered out of the barrel.
So he does a 30sec fix to unjam it and get it spinning again. Happy Day, right? Nope. Got chewed out for not sticking to His Job, and pretty much blackballed from that crew.
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For the record, I don’t like unions, and I don’t dislike unions. They simply exist. Whether they’re good or bad depends on their level of jackassery.