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Do You Like Your Employer?

Do You Like Your Employer?

  • Yes, I like my employer

    Votes: 44 73.3%

  • They're OK, I neither like them or hate them

    Votes: 12 20.0%

  • No, I don't like my employer

    Votes: 4 6.7%
  • Total voters
    60
Moderate Right

Moderate Right

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I was posting in another thread with someone who apparently doesn't like the company they are working for. Thus, this thread to gauge the level of happiness everyone here has with their employer.
 
I'm self employed.Can't stand the guy.
 
Moderate Right said:
I was posting in another thread with someone who apparently doesn't like the company they are working for. Thus, this thread to gauge the level of happiness everyone here has with their employer.
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I answered yes because I like my employer. One of the reasons I've been here so long. But I've worked for companies in the past I didn't like for any number of reasons. It isn't unheard of.
 
The argument was actually about whether employers should be able to treat full time employees as contractors who are there for the day to paint the fence. This is a common practice in right to work for less states. My argument was for applying pressure against this loophole through legislation and labor organization.
 
I work for the stagehands union, Local 122 in San Diego.

Wish I had done it years earlier.

We have our issues, like any organization. But there's lots of variety and the amount of stupid I have to deal with from my coworkers is much lower than at any other place I have worked.

Plus I have healthcare, a pension and an annuity. And somebody to have my back at work.

I highly recommend it.
 
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I work for the stagehands union, Local 122 in San Diego.

Wish I had done it years earlier.

We have our issues, like any organization. But there's lots of variety and the amount of stupid I have to deal with from my coworkers is much lower than at any other place I have worked.

Plus I have healthcare, a pension and an annuity. And somebody to have my back at work.

I highly recommend it.
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I also recommend it. My wife is in one of the unions that the state hasn't managed to gut yet. They still have a little ability to push back against stupid edicts from on high, as well as greater job security.
 
Helix said:
The argument was actually about whether employers should be able to treat full time employees as contractors who are there for the day to paint the fence. This is a common practice in right to work for less states. My argument was for applying pressure against this loophole through legislation and labor organization.
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I live in a right to work state and literally the only place I know who does this is Mr. Warren Buffett's newspaper.
 
What if...? said:
I work for the stagehands union, Local 122 in San Diego.

Wish I had done it years earlier.

We have our issues, like any organization. But there's lots of variety and the amount of stupid I have to deal with from my coworkers is much lower than at any other place I have worked.

Plus I have healthcare, a pension and an annuity. And somebody to have my back at work.

I highly recommend it.
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Can I bum a room off ya until I get started?
 
Now that I am old no one will hire me so I am forming yet again another company to be self employed, but at least I don't pee test myself.
 
Helix said:
The argument was actually about whether employers should be able to treat full time employees as contractors who are there for the day to paint the fence. This is a common practice in right to work for less states. My argument was for applying pressure against this loophole through legislation and labor organization.
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As I said in another thread, you have the choice of whether you want to do independent contractor work or not. If you don't want to work like this then don't.
 
Drawdown said:
I live in a right to work state and literally the only place I know who does this is Mr. Warren Buffett's newspaper.
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It's very prevalent in my state.
 
Moderate Right said:
As I said in another thread, you have the choice of whether you want to do independent contractor work or not. If you don't want to work like this then don't.
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It isn't that simple, or I would. Instead, I will vote against anti-labor Republicans. Also, wanting to be treated like the full time employee that I am =/= hating my employer. I'm glad to dismantle that strawman argument for you, and I didn't even need to start a second thread to do it.
 
Helix said:
It isn't that simple, or I would. Instead, I will vote against anti-labor Republicans. Also, wanting to be treated like the full time employee that I am =/= hating my employer. I'm glad to dismantle that strawman argument for you, and I didn't even need to start a second thread to do it.
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It's isn't simple because you are better off where you are and you know it.
 
Helix said:
May you work under the same circumstances for half price.
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What's that supposed to mean? Are you saying that you are earning half the amount you would if you worked somewhere else? If so, quit and work at the other place that pays twice as much. It really is simple, especially in today's low unemployment era.
 
Moderate Right said:
What's that supposed to mean? Are you saying that you are earning half the amount you would if you worked somewhere else? If so, quit and work at the other place that pays twice as much. It really is simple, especially in today's low unemployment era.
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I earn maybe sixty percent of what they paid the people in the division they fired before the contracting scam. The industry here all did it at around the same time after the Bush crash.
 
Self-employed, so I guess I like myself?

Helix said:
The argument was actually about whether employers should be able to treat full time employees as contractors who are there for the day to paint the fence. This is a common practice in right to work for less states.
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What does right to work have to do with the FTE vs. contractor issue?

Helix said:
I also recommend it. My wife is in one of the unions that the state hasn't managed to gut yet.
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How does your state "gut" individual unions?
 
I like my employer because I am retired and I am it, me.
 
Moderate Right said:
I was posting in another thread with someone who apparently doesn't like the company they are working for. Thus, this thread to gauge the level of happiness everyone here has with their employer.
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I sure do

It's amazing what you can do on the tax payers dime
 
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