Have you ever been on Strike?

**JBMcB** · September-14-23, 04:41 PM

I never had a chance to. The three unionized jobs I was up for at a university kept getting filled by relatives and friends of the union delegate. My boss wanted to move me in to a full-time position, but he kept getting overruled by the union delegate. After a year I left to work for a dot-com at a 50% higher salary.

**Henry Whalley** · September-15-23, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by JBMcB

The three unionized jobs I was up for at a university kept getting filled by relatives and friends of the union delegate.

Nepotism is ubiquitous in unions, entertainment, sports, churches, military, politics, finance, banking, brokerages, government, and probably even in gambling, drug dealing, pimping, and whoring, where you'd expect to find meritocracy.

Even in Heaven where God promoted his son and a few of the devils and angels, not to mention the boy's mother.

**JBMcB** · September-19-23, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by Henry Whalley

Nepotism is ubiquitous in unions, entertainment, sports, churches, military, politics, finance, banking, brokerages, government, and probably even in gambling, drug dealing, pimping, and whoring, where you'd expect to find meritocracy.

Maybe, but it wasn't in any of the subsequent jobs I've had. I'm happy to be out of that original job. I have a bunch of friends who stayed on, eventually quitting as the workplace got worse and worse. They could fire 75% of that department now and not much would change work-wise. Nepotism is the least of the problems it has now, but is one of the root causes of them.