This story though, is worse than sad, it is pathetic.......
It certainly is. And like the title says, it is the mentality of these idiots that causes things like this to happen. They are so conditioned to that mentality.
I was in Philadelphia for a trade show and two of us were setting up our booth. Booths have been simplified in recent years and it only took us about 20 minutes. The last thing to do was place a light bar on the top of the booth and no sooner did we have the light in our hands, a "union" electrician came by and said it is required in his contract that a union electrician set the light up and plug it in. When we left the show we got the bill for the space rental and there was a $50 dollar electricians fee attached. That was the last time I went to that trade show.