What could possibly go wrong. : the_dunk

[-] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago

Picket Line, Day 3:

"The bosses tried to get our white-collar coworkers to scab. But I couldn't be happier to tell you that they have chosen SOLIDARITY instead! And have engaged in a TOTAL WORK STOPPAGE! That's right, since they took over not ONE CAR has come off the assembly line!"

Inside the plant as the entire line of salaried workers try desperately to perform material labor they are untrained for:

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

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

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

[-] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago

0–this-is-harder-than-looks in 15 seconds.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago

But wait, how could they possibly do that, surely those white collar jobs are just as important and if you take people off of them everything will fall apart just as much, otherwise it would be ridiculous to pay those white collar workers more for much easier jobs than the factory workers

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Just goes to show how low the capitalist society considers the lowest-paid workers. The idea of demanding 8 productive hours from white-collars would get one laughed out the room, while minimum wage workers can't get caught peeking at their phone.

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[-] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Sure thing boss!"

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Art.

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago

Has this ever worked?

Has this ever not ended in the destruction of several million dollars in delicate equipment?

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

This really needs to be done in baby voice with an "UwU" at the end.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Any half decent business major knows this is a terrible idea. They're thinking with their stubbornness and greed, not their academic background

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

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"?

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

They had to call an ambulance within 6 hours.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In communist totalitarian authoritarian dictatorships where human rights and democracy do not exist, a corrupt and out-of-touch elitist bureaucracy allocates labor in a highly inefficient manner based on personal connections rather than skill or merit, resulting in society-wide supply problems as well as needless death and suffering.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

This is so dumb.

As a white collar worker, it seems really dumb to waste a TON of time and money throwing new designs back by weeks just to get an extra couple hundred units of product out the door, that probably won't be good because everyone with experience is on strike.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Lmao right? Same. I would have one hell of a time before breaking it though!

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

True, true!

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

chefs-kiss

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

White collar workers have a chance to do some comradely shit and make some "accidents".

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

party-sicko

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Seems like a method of trying to set white collar workers against blue collar workers.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

They know it would be a shitshow if they put office workers on the line. I would assume they're doing this on purpose to stoke anti-union sentiment and drive a wedge between them and the strikers.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

If it doesn't also fuck up their logistics somehow then that white collar work doesn't need to take 40 hours and could quite possibly be worthless

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

White collar workers need to strike in solidarity

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

I'll never understand why the white collar folks agree to scab for a job they weren't hired to do. That shit is not their job, they'd be plenty justified saying no. What's the long term thinking? You're gonna work in a factory for a few weeks or months until the strike ends so that what? The union gets a worse deal and the company looses less money and now all your project are behind? It's not like management is going to be happy to delay all those projects. I guess it's just the fear of being fired for being the only one to say no. Almost like everyone needs a union.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Remember when this strategy worked out perfectly for John Deere?

https://jalopnik.com/john-deere-put-temporary-workers-on-the-factory-floor-1847872374

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Lol I'm pretty sure one company already tried this like a year ago I think, and it predictably lead to dozens of accidents all in the first week before it had to be abandoned and they gave in to the unions's demands

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

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

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