The union contract greatly inhibits the “creative destruction” of policies and procedures each time a new Pointy-Haired Boss is hired from another company into middle management. IOW, no change just for change sake.
Separately, due to the seniority system operating among the union workforce, there is a strong incentive for all those workers to stay here on the job, not to job hop to other companies. As a consequence, you have a much more stable workforce and avoid all the costs of worker churn.
Admittedly, it can be harder to fire or discipline. But truth be told, as long as management and HR are able to construct a paper case as they should everywhere, the bad apples can be weeded out. It’s just the martinet shouting “you’re fired!” for any reason or no reason that’s no longer possible.
I love mine too! It was something that I had wanted for a long time, but I hesitated to buy one because I didn’t know if I would use it often enough to justify the price.
Me, too! I’m 67 and I’ve wanted one my whole life. It was over $300 for a fuckin’ pot! But I bit the bullet, and I love it! You can do everything from bake bread in it, to make stews and pot roasts, and soups. Plus Corned Beef and cabbage!
(You guys - I thought yesterday was St. Patrick’s day. I’m so dumb. But I made Corned Beef and cabbage and potatoes and carrots in my Le Creuset pot! It was delicious.)
It has happened again. We have one network tech/engineer that treats us developers, at least in my group as if we are help desk callers/users. I am not contacting network support when I can’t log in to a server because I had caps lock on, or don’t know the proper way to type in my user name, I asking for your help because clearly the server is not behaving as it should. The “it works for me, you must be typing in the wrong thing” or whatever, does not apply. We try everything and from different machines/servers before contacting you guys, but you think it is just that we don’t know how to do the basic thing we do every day! Aaarg.
Oh and the other thing that I run into that bothers me is when they assume that you must be encountering a particular situation because it happens in Chrome. I almost never use Chrome, so don’t give a statement like you might experience this, make it your might experience this if you use Chrome.
Perhaps time for their supervisor to be informed of their disrespectful unprofessionalism. Especially since they’re the only one in the department doing it.
Yep, there is a network engineer I have to work with sometimes, who always seems to have the attitude of “Prove to me it’s not a problem on your end before I’ll look at it.” He will ask me all kinds of basic questions and I want to respond “Look, I’ve been doing this job for 30 years, I think I know how to troubleshoot.” So infuriating sometimes.