Jon Steiger wrote:
>
> At 04:52 PM 8/7/97 -0500, Michael Clark wrote:
> [...]
> >Well, I wish I could back you up there sam but UPS has mine. Went by
> >the local office today (drove through the picket line) and they said the
> >headers were still in Lancaster Ca. and I probably would not see them
> >until the strike is over. So you can gues how I feel about UPS at the
> >moment....
> >
> >UPS: UPyourS....
> >
>
> Yep. Hey, did you manage to mangle a couple of people as you drove
> through the line? Didja get pictures? ;) I hope the bozos didn't
> mess up your truck! Picket liners do seem to love to trash cars. :-P
> (Ahhh, my kingdom for a V-10 duallie Ram with a snowplow...) :-)
>
> It never ceases to amaze me just how stupid unions are. Do they really
> think that a strike makes the general public sympathetic toward them?? UPS
> isn't delaying shipments, its the @##$^* union. Maybe they think we'll
> get desperate and pressure UPS to bow to their every whim? Maybe we'll
> pressure UPS to fire all their lazy butts and hire a quality staff.
>
> The thing that really gets me is that this whole issue is a non-issue.
> UPS is offering their employees more than the union by giving money (that
> would go to line the pockets of the external union) to the employees instead.
> Thats why your headers are stuck in Lancaster, and that's why I will have
> to stop flying very soon because my oil and fuel lines are stuck
> who-knows-where.
>
> Oops, but now I'm off topic... ;-)
>
> -Jon-
>
Well I was in the v6 rental at the time so as I left I punched it, but a
v6 Concord is not as intimidating as a Flowmaster equipped v8 Dak, not
sure if anyone noticed....couldn't get any rubber ;-( The people inside
the office said they were giving the remaining ups workers a hard time
but were not messing with any customers.... better not, or I might have
be on the news.....
I totally agree with you 100% Jon, but I thought I would keep quiet
because who knows, there might be some union people on the list, and I
hate the ocasional pissing contests. I'll just wait patiently, not much
else to do....
--
Michael Clark mike@snakebite.com
'93 Mark III 4X2 V-8 SWB RC auto
MP SBEC, K&N FIPK, Flowmaster cat-back dual
Doug Thorley Headers (on order)
http://userv.wt.net/~mclark/
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