A forklift with F-150 doors stapled on comes off the line

"They've made an artistic recreation of the Frankenstein that is Capitalism!"

I'm sure it's just like that port mission in GTA5

Joking aside, I do accounting work for a large company. There are weeks where I genuinely work 40 a week, but...far more frequently I never come close. It can sometimes be stressful, but again, far more often it carries little to no stress. Working retail in college was more stressful on the day to day, and I got paid orders of magnitude less (not to mention, I had to actually be 'working' for every second I was on the clock, even if it was just cleaning up the check out isle in front of my register).

I am considered one of the more productive and knowledgeable people in my group.

There are certainly exceptions, but white collar work is largely a joke, an exercise in bureaucratic nothingness.

Art.

Don't be mean the people making these decisions are business majors they're trying their best.

How hard could it be, it's unskilled labor that anyone could do, after all, the rates they're being paid were decided by the free market, which is infallible. They're being paid less, so their work is easy and anyone who is paid more could do it with ease. Ever heard of "meritocracy"?

every time i have seen this story, within like 36 hours of it supposedly happening, management returns to the table with massive concessions.

it's the panic move. everybody knows that work and responsibilities are always pushed down. disorganized workers are always getting a superior's responsibilities fobbed off on them. the majority of times, whenever i have needed a superior to cover a simple task for me as a one-off due to an unforeseen situation--ranging from an environment of agricultural labor all the way up into the lofty halls of the academy--the manager/owner/superior fucks it up. they don't pay attention when shown, they don't take notes, they fail basic time management and just completely flake on doing the thing.

either they are incompetent to the tasking or the know that if they handle it well, they will be asked to do it again. people don't rise up in organizations without learning strategies of sidestepping work or at least how to insist on better compensation and then manipulate others into getting it done.

You mean replacing skilled laborers with unskilled office workers is a bad idea?

They had to call an ambulance within 6 hours.

Also harkens when Nixon tried to use military reservists to replace the postal employees during the 1970 wildcat strike. It barely lasted a week, iirc

I remember that. Tractors crashed on the first day. Ambulances called all over the place due to accidents. So many accidents they stopped publicising the figures. Any white collar Ford workers reading, you know what to do: don't cross the picket line! Because it's scabby and you'll probably lose a limb.

As another white collar worker, I guarantee that putting me in charge of a forklift is, at best, going to get you a broken forklift.

The point is to threaten the strikers, not to directly make product.

I have worked in the auto industry for years and you are 100% correct. If you are white collar you basically get hammered with "UAW = bad". Talk of joining the UAW or starting a union is severely frowned upon. Before the last round of layoffs there was a lot of talk about forming a union. Haven't heard from those people since. Most were let go for poor performance or just left. Seems like management was able to squash the white collar union talk, well until shit like this comes up

I think it was the John Deere strike. An ambulance showed up a couple hours into the first shift lmao