A couple of years ago a friend of mine was put on a job that was about a month behind schedule and approaching $100 million cost overrun.
First day there he noticed almost an hour after work was supposed to start no one was working because the welders hadn’t shown up.
All the welders had decided they were so important they could come in to work anywhere from 45 min to an hour or more late.
He let the welders know if they didn’t show up for work on time he would assume they had quit.
Next day all the welders decided they were going to show him who was boss and they all showed up an hour late.
None got in the gate.
Within about 2 days my buddy had about 50 new welders on the job and each understood you show up late you just quit.
The new welders were getting more done in one week than the old welders were getting done in 2 weeks.
I was shopping at store around Christmas time and two
teenage boys were stocking stuff and talking to each other.
I asked a question about a product and they both just looked
at me. We had a starring contest and they won. I got the
manager and she said they are hired to help them learn
interpersonal skills...
What a satisfying outcome for your Boss. That’s like when Reagan fired all those pilots who refused to cross a picket line. He called their bluff, and the strikers were furious staying that way for years.
That is a big problem with union jobs in the NYC area; people wnt 6 figures for basically working part-time. At my job (non-unionize office stuff), many older white women want to work the barest minimum of hours and it has spread to everyone else - “salaried” workers no longer work unpaid overtime because as long as those women won’t do it (regardless of how high their positions are) management can’t take action against the rest of us. It wouldn’t just be a reverse discrimination case brought by men; there would be a racial angle due to the number of non-whites (of both genders) that were expected to work harder/longer hours than those white women.