My company sent me a super duper secret memo by accident- I read it

[Tucker]

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iwillalwayswonderwhy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue May-24-11 12:53 AM
Original message
I saw something today I wasn't supposed to see
   
Edited on Tue May-24-11 01:20 AM by iwillalwayswonderwhy
I work for a company that has multiple warehouses spread across the country. We just got brand spanking new insurance benefits this year.

Today, I got an email from the corporate office that contained a spreadsheet that would show the new codes that will be on the paychecks.

But I'm a curious sort. The company has (much to their chagrin), 3 warehouses that are unionized. So when I saw the tab that said Unions, heck yeah, I opened it. Insurance benefits for the union employees will cost those employees 1/3 of what I have to pay for the very same insurance. The company itself pays a bigger piece of their insurance than for the rest of it.

I don't begrudge the union employees in the slightest. But I could plainly see in an instant, why corporations despise unions. I also saw in an instant, why unions are so valuable to workers.

I quietly closed the spreadsheet and pondered on this a while.

I'm still pondering.

Edited to make this a little more vague.

Sure they did.

FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue May-24-11 12:56 AM
Response to Original message
1. Don't ponder, organize n/t

Being an at will employee, try it.

LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue May-24-11 12:58 AM
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2. I see your point but it is never a good idea to talk about what you did at your job on the Internet.
   
There has been at least one incident here where someone talked about something job-related and it got back to their employer. There are people who actively seek to disrupt the lives of people on DU. I would recommend alerting on your own thread and asking for it to be deleted.

Too late. We got it.

Now I wonder where iwillalwayswonderwhy works!

CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU!    Tue May-24-11 12:59 AM
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3. Good for you...
   
You did a very good thing.

Remember, knowledge is power...

And now, that knowledge is yours.


Recommended.

You DUmb bitch, just what did he do?

MrDiaz (34 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue May-24-11 06:48 AM
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19. I have been working since i was 16 years old.
   
I have never been in an Union, I have never had any problems with my insurance, small fee or free. I have always got my raises, and the job I have been working at now for the past 4 1/2 years is also union free, and the owner of this small business is very generous, and treats all us 35 employees like family.

Dogtown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue May-24-11 06:53 AM
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20. What do you think will happen
   
when that small company gets bought by a mega?
Would be better to have a union in place, rather than try to organize once you're already bought.
But you keep trusting, ostrich.


MrDiaz (34 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue May-24-11 07:04 AM
Response to Reply #20
23. If it gets
   
"bought by a Mega" then i will deal with it, or go and find a different job, its pretty simple the way i see it. It's what I have done in the past. I work at a job until i get tired of working there and begin the process of finding another job. When I do eventually find another job willing to hire me, I give the employer a 2 weeks notice, or if I was angry enough I just tell them I quit. I continue this process until I am comfortable at the job I have found, and yes I have been comfortable here for the past 4 1/2 yrs, but am not ruling out that little process again if I need it again.

Dirty freeper troll. I suspect pizza for breakfast.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Golly, if you added up the extra money being paid I wonder how many new jobs could be added to Recovery Summer v2.0? How much more productivity could be added? How many new customers could be added or maybe improvements to existing service?

meh

Unions got their, **** everybody else.

[USA4ME]

Someone who signs away their right to negotiate directly with their employer to save a few pennies on their insurance is someone that's doesn't have the capacity to ever be anything other than a peon no matter where they work.  This constant desire by libs to seek consensus and work collectively is the mindset of those who, from all indications, enjoy serfdom while providing themselves some insignificant outlet to claim they "giving it back to the man."  They believe the lies they tell themselves, and so their ignorance is their bliss.  In the meanwhile, they'll continue to complain about circumstances their own political ideology created while falsely believing it was their opposition that imprisoned them.

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[DumbAss Tanker]

I wonder how much of a spread there is between the lower cost of the union insurance, and the union dues...which of course the OP omits to mention.

[dandi]

Someone who signs away their right to negotiate directly with their employer to save a few pennies on their insurance is someone that's doesn't have the capacity to ever be anything other than a peon no matter where they work.  This constant desire by libs to seek consensus and work collectively is the mindset of those who, from all indications, enjoy serfdom while providing themselves some insignificant outlet to claim they "giving it back to the man."  They believe the lies they tell themselves, and so their ignorance is their bliss.  In the meanwhile, they'll continue to complain about circumstances their own political ideology created while falsely believing it was their opposition that imprisoned them.

Ding-ding-ding!

**** a union.

[jukin]

Don't be too surprised when said company moves those union shops to right to work states...or closes them altogether.

[thelaughingman]

You know, if I read an email from work that I was not meant to get, I could get fired.

[Ralph Wiggum]

You know, if I read an email from work that I was not meant to get, I could get fired.

I got one from HR that I shouldn't have seen the other day.  I didn't open the attachment, and sent it back to the person.  She had mistakenly CC'ed me on it, and thanked me for returning it.

That's the proper protocol, ladies & gentlemen.  And to you lurking DUmmies too.

[GOBUCKS]

Nah, it's like if the mailman accidentally puts mail addressed to a neighbor into your mailbox. Of course you open it because anything in that box belongs to you, right? And if there's a check in there, you're entitled to cash it, right? After all, it was in your mailbox.

[thelaughingman]

Nah, it's like if the mailman accidentally puts mail addressed to a neighbor into your mailbox. Of course you open it because anything in that box belongs to you, right? And if there's a check in there, you're entitled to cash it, right? After all, it was in your mailbox.

Har!   

[IassaFTots]

Nah, it's like if the mailman accidentally puts mail addressed to a neighbor into your mailbox. Of course you open it because anything in that box belongs to you, right? And if there's a check in there, you're entitled to cash it, right? After all, it was in your mailbox.

Well, like Duh! 

Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers!