Merit.

Thanks for asking.

Hey Buzz – Walt Frazier is starting in the backcourt tonight. Because he has seniority.
And Joe Namath is going to start next year. Because he has seniority.
And Tom Seaver.
Tony Esposito.

The real world has decided to prioritize only seniority, just like the unions. In fact, there's a movement afoot to bar even these players – because they were so good – Hall of Famers – in favor of the third string player from the team just before them. No merit at all! Seniority über alles!

"How long have you punched the clock, Sir? Oh, that long? You go to the head of the line. You're the most senior so far. No, no. We know you've been phoning it in for years now, waiting for retirement. Or death. No matter. You're the most senior, so you are at the front of the line."




Is there anyone who can explain to Just_Right that I'm opposed to the strike (I'm an independent thinker, I don't get cowed by a bunch of union thugs roaming their glare about the auditorium during vote night.) Therefore, I wouldn't be a "piss poor example" of someone to hold your hand on the picket line, because I won't be on the picket line. Just_Right's having trouble with the concept of opposition to the union bosses – maybe no one's ever tried it before?

And Just_Right, the fact that the union bosses spread your dues around to cronies and family members and politicians, is not refuted because ONE politician – Bloomberg – doesn't take it. After all, the man doesn't take a salary for being mayor, so don't get yourself breathless over the fact that he also takes none from Michael Corleone and Company. They've spread a lot of it to politicians. Just not him.





Mirrorcheck: any savings the city sees will go to the general budget and paying down the debt. They don't need to spend even more on classrooms, but of course the teachers union is lobbying all the time for more money for their union. (You'll find it listed under "smaller class sizes FOR THE CHILDREN. Always for the children. Of course, it doesn't hurt that smaller classes also mean more teachers, which means more union dues to the UFT.) Lotto was a scheme to create a slush fund for the politicians and their cronies. Much like, but on a larger scale, the slush fund Corleone and his cronies sit atop from union dues. (And Lotto also, diabolically, acts as a tax on the lower and working classes.) Or, you could also have pointed out what a boondoggle Off-Track Betting was. They couldn't even cover their expenses and went bankrupt, because government never runs a business efficiently, especially when so many have their fingers in the cookie jar.  Taking bus service from the seventh and eighth grade kids of Staten Island, because of the lack of public transit on the island and sections where there are no sidewalks, was a potentially lethal mistake. (Do you say that a child did die from it?) It was instituted by Pupil Transportation and School Services within DOE, but Bloomberg signed off on it. THAT was an example of being pound foolish with the safety of the children, not EPP.

Quote from: Buzz on January 14, 2013, 02:11:06 AM
I find it hard to believe that you're even an 1181 member. If you are, and if that's the way your company operates, they deserve to lose their work ... and you with it.

The one entity I did NOT remark on was my company, but hey, thanks for playing.

"Bob, do we have a consolation prize for Buzz, just for playing the game?"

Quote from: Just_Right on January 13, 2013, 11:50:20 PM
You know Studly...I have to say.MY DUES goes for more than lining any union leaders pockets.

1. Thank you for admitting that your union dues line the pockets of the union bosses. Many don't want to admit that.

Quote from: Just_Right on January 13, 2013, 11:50:20 PM
OH and btw IF you're a driver than you are making the same amount of money I am and that is all because of our UNION.

2. That's true. And the fact that you and I make the same amount of money is yet another failure of the union. I'm a better driver with a better record, and therefore I should be making more money – but for the union's anti-competitive rules. As I wrote before: "And seniority (punching the clock) is all that matters to the union, not quality. Or skill. Or work ethic." After all, does Mark Sanchez make as much as Tom Brady?

Quote from: Just_Right on January 13, 2013, 11:50:20 PM
You clearly don't deserve to be driving my kids around.!!

3. See #2, above.

If my bus company loses my route due to competitive bidding, my union demands that the new company must hire me if I've punched the clock longer than the driver the new company wants to hire. And seniority (punching the clock) is all that matters to the union, not quality. Or skill. Or work ethic. (And making sure that the most senior drivers can never get fired, no matter how lazy they are or how much they screw up.) So, to hell with the kids. It's all about the drivers. And their money.

No, no. Wait a minute, because of course the only reason the union bosses want me to keep my job is to maintain that revenue stream of union dues I've been kicking back to them oh-so-steadily all these years to Michael Corleone and his lieutenants. Because the size of the pile of money the bosses command is all that matters. (Along with the power that goes with it.) So that the union bosses can spread the wealth around to their family members, and cronies, and Marxist organizations and politicians. So we must ensure that all the dues money keeps flowing to the bosses by prohibiting any union drivers from ever losing their job. Union power derives from drivers' dues, so the drivers must keep their jobs so that the dues keep pouring in to the union bosses. So, to hell with the drivers. It's all about the union bosses. And their money.

Glad I could clarify that for you.