Pointless Announcements

So the new shop foreman, pulled us together for a meeting. Said he didn't want to turn the shop into a hell hole. Then continued with, he fired a 28 yr employee, let's call him Randy. Randy is 50 yrs old and has a 2 yr old toddler. Everyone likes him and he does a good job. Randy is a master machinist He made a mistake that clearly made him nervous. The new company owners are making us all edgy. The cost was less than 100$. He tried to cover it up so as to avoid a disciplanry action. So he was fired for his decision to cover it up. Any way the foreman went on to tell us that we are all on notice. That he expects elbows and assholes, although he doesn't want to over work us. So he is going to fire the next slacker and he wants us to report to him whomever that person is. It will help us be more of a team he says. Then went on to say that he would like volunteers to work both days this weekend and the shifts will be short just 12 hrs each day.
So I will be working 7 days this week.

 

My go-to place whenever I am in Indy: 110 yr old Shapiro's Delicatessen.

 

Talk about contradicting himself.
So he doesn't want to turn the place into a hellhole but he's going to fire people for $100 mistakes, ask you to rat each other out and work seven days a week?
Sounds like a hellhole to me.
Sounds like you need a union.

 

about that union thing.
We we're warned say 6 months ago, that any person would be fired for contacting the Aerospace Aircraft Union. And they would find some reason of course other than the real reason.

 

Legally they can't do that.
Of course, they know that which is why you would be fired for some other reason.
But if enough of you went at the same time and they tried to fire the entire shop, it would be easy to prove in a court that they were doing it to retaliate for organizing.
Then they would have to fight the feds.
Or maybe not considering who the president is going to be.
But still the laws are there and the union should be able to fight for you.
If they knew you were being threatened with firing for even talking to them, I'm sure they would be more than happy to drop lawyers on the companies ass.

 

This isn't one of mine, but it's too good not to share:

 

Man, who knew Christmas cupcakes and popcorn went so well together?

 

Love it!
I refer to both my former US homes--Connecticut on the east coast and Illinois in the midwest as "back east." My first home, Ontario, is special. I call it "heaven."

 

Another Youtube comments headshaker:

 

So after rewatching The Sound of Music tonight for the eleventy-billionth time, I decided to ask Google why the nuns weren't allowed to sit with the wedding party at Maria's wedding.
I learned from Yahoo Answers they were supposedly cloistered nuns, so were kept separate from others.

Then I saw this:

 

Ain't no party like a Christmas pizza party, 'cause a Christmas pizza party don't...well, ok, it ended, but it ended with chocolate, damnit!

/reaches up to Dab...a little chocolate off his lip