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Old 07-10-2008, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by flynavyj View Post
Any most other professional fields, your resume and experience gets you the opportunity to negotiate a pay rate that you and the company feel is adequate. Here, they don't, and as long as you can't, no company is going to fight over getting an employee, you're just another toothpick in the box.
That is an interesting observation. People always complain that management treats them like a number and not an individual - and yet, the union itself insists on using a system where the only thing that is allowed to determine your value is your date of hire. People complain that management de-humanizes them, and yet the system the union insists on following seems to take any/and all individual value away from the employee outside of his hire date. Interesting.
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