- Alan Petrillo Good point.
- Alan Petrillo Still, not too bad for something I knocked together as fast as I could type it, no?
- Jay Ashworth It's very clean. It has to be coherent, too. I have the same problem. :-)
- Jay Ashworth And I concur, it's probably a talking point. It's also probably older than us.
- Jay Ashworth In fact, oddly, Google gets *zero* hits for the quoted phrase; I'm surprised.
- Alan Petrillo True. Although, the book /Schroedinger's Kittens/ makes some interesting, and DEEP, reading.
- Alan Petrillo A variation of the saying is "...too hard to cut out the dead wood." Same comment applies.
- Jay Ashworth Yeah. Weren't you supposed to loan that to me... about 2 years ago. :-)
- Alan Petrillo <chuckle>
amazon.comSchrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum MysteriesSchrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries- Snuggles TheDuck Jay, it's "its" ;-)
- Jay Ashworth I looked at all my its's, duckface, and they all look right to me... :-)
"Unions make it too hard to get rid of the dead weight."
Over and over I've heard this from anti-union people. I don't mean just this sentiment, I mean that specific phrase. Word for word. It's such a meme that I'm sure they all got it, directly or indirectly, from the same place.
Needless to say, I disagree. A union makes capricious firing more difficult. If you're going to fire a union member you'd better have well documented cause.
As management, if your union collective bargaining agreement makes it, as you say, "too hard to get rid of the dead weight" then the first dead weight you need to get rid of is your contract negotiation team.
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