Why Do People Jpoin Unions?

[ToraToraTora]

I just don't get it, if you are good at your job you don't need it so clearly it's just a device to protect the terminally she-ite at their jobs. Why would anyone want to do that?

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // I just don't get it, if you are good at your job you don't need it so clearly it's just a device to protect the terminally she-ite at their jobs. Why would anyone want to do that? //

I worked for BT for forty-three years, and I was very good at my job.

I was extremely grateful for the experience and ability of my CWU Rep who defended me against one accusation of fraud, and one accusation of misconduct - in both instances I was not guilty of the offences brought against me.

But without the defence of my Union, I would have been dismissed without appeal, on either of two occasions, for two things I did not do.

That's why people join unions TTT.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit: "You are missing the point, by a few parsecs :-) " - do you know what a parsec is?

[ToraToraTora]

20:40, so you were not good enough at your job that they needed you then?

[JDavis]

TTT,

You're not still claiming you live in the real world, surely?

[ToraToraTora]

here's one for you gromit, how many light years in a Parsec? It's a very easy calc so you have 10 mins or I won't believe you did it yourself.

[Gromit]

Yes, that is why I used that particular word.
I am now thinking I may have over estimated you, if you are querying it.

[Gromit]

3.25

[ToraToraTora]

jdavis: "You're not still claiming you live in the real world, surely? " - more that you can possibly imagine me old china!

[ToraToraTora]

pretty good Gromit, 3.26, well done.

[ToraToraTora]

to be fair that was a bit too quick!

[ToraToraTora]

However Gromit I applaud that you are at least aware of what a Parsec is.

[JDavis]

TTT,

You display very little understanding understanding of human nature and behaviour.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // 20:40, so you were not good enough at your job that they needed you then? //

Call me old-fashioned, but I think being able to sack someone for something they didn't do is rather more of the issue than whether or not the company could survive without me.

I never kidded myself that was indispensible, but I am not dishonest, and I was grateful to the Union that thanks to them, BT was prevented from driving a coach-and-four through my basic rights to fair treatment, fueled as it was by personal malice in the first instance, and a desire to cover up personal incompetence further up the chain in the second.

[Gromit]

TTT
We share a love of Star Trek and Si-Fi which is why I used Parsec as a large measurement. But I did check that it meant what I thought it meant before posting. I read that a Parsec is (approximately) 3.25 light years in length, literally a couple of minutes you asked me its size in light years.

[ToraToraTora]

fair enough gromit I asked that becuase it was one of the the first problems I ever had to do in my uni calculator competition. I got 3.26

[ToraToraTora]

an easy peice of arithmetic but also easy to get it wrong.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit, but can you explain what a Parsec is and why it's useful?

[Gromit]

TTT,
I have just told you I looked it up 5 minutes ago.
I do not have a physics degree, and I am not pretending I have. Now back to the Alpha Quadrant (just about).

[ToraToraTora]

ok fair enough gromit it's only arithmetic not physics but I applaud your honesty.