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On 7/2/2003 3:53:06 PM
PineyBob wrote:
In fact that's one of the reasons I have been so critical of Sr. Management, They still wrongly feel they are in the transportation business and not in the people business.
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PineyBob,
I found this comment interesting. As a front line employee (Mechanic), I certainly feel like I'm in the transportation business. My first reaction would be to disagree with you and say that my bosses are in the transportation business too.
On second thought I realized that your right. My managements job is to administer people who are in the transportation business.
Of course they don't do that either. I believe that they are here to skim the cream off the top of our vocation, and then move on to the next industry. Just watch the C.E.O.s and V.P.s hop from one industry to another.
Like any structured system, when the administrators are corrupt, it's still improper for the rank and file to refuse and rebuke.
Capitalism says that we should just leave and find something else. The problem is that we (the rank and file) ARE in the transportation business. When we complain, we are crying for help. That one of societies infrastructures is being raped. Management will admonish the public to ignore our pleas for help. After all they're just overpaid, lazy Union people. Besides if you let us (management) get rid of those good middle class jobs, we can give you a cheaper product by hiring desperate (maybe even third world) workers.
Which I guess comes down to this. If America, as a society, is willing to not only tolorate, but admire Enron-ism, then our cause is already lost.
Like you said before PineyBob, the old tactics will no longer work. Unless the middle class stands up for itself, and makes itself the American dream, then the U.S. will stratify into a feudal system of overseers and the working poor.
I would encourage all of my co-workers to keep fighting for whats right, trained professionals earning a just, middle class, wage.
On the other hand, I would also encourage all of my co-workers to have a good exit strategy.