The Schuylkill River Trails runs through Philadelphia and then continues up through the northern suburbs of the city, and even further beyond that. A decent amount of the trail is right along the river, but some stretches veer away from the river a few hundred yards, so you feel more like you’re in the middle of the…

The Bloody Chapel

So this isn’t scary, more of a spooky/unexplained story. And the fact I have a witness (Mamacita) provides comfort I didn’t make this shit up or it was imagined. I asked my mom to provide her memory of the event so you’re getting a mish-mash of our points of view, which lines up well based on our respective…

The Night Mares of Waterford Castle

The Garbage Man

My sister was in a relationship with a man, “Alan”, who was bad news. He was quite a bit older than her, no steady job, never had any money (in fact was always hitting her up for money for beer or car repairs) and increasingly was mooching off her kindness and moving himself into her home without an official…

You are looking at this through the wrong lense. It’s not Dunning-Kruger at all. Management is just trying to buy time until some people miss some house payments and crawl back to the pre-existing poor wages. This is not the first time or the last this will happen.

Dunning-Kruger at work. If management has such a disrespect for the job labor does that they think this can work, then they deserve to get their ass handed to them. Seriously, if you’re managing people, you need to know the job they do; otherwise, D-K dictates that you will underestimate it. That means, the people…

Where’s that meme, ‘Some of you may die but that’s a risk I’m willing to take!’?

Unions are like condoms; if someone is trying to say you don’t need one, you definitely need one.

Many of these salaried workers are non-union because they don’t work on the factory floor and don’t often need the bargaining power to demand competitive hourly wages.

If it’s between the union and management, you can bet your ass I’m always on the side of the union. 

He doesn’t work at in an assembly plant, that’s the point. Even working adjacent to an assembly plant doesn’t necessarily mean you would have any ability to actually assemble.

Amusing how keen to chant “Democracy!” Americans are until the vast majority of the workers in a business form a union.

Please, never work in an assembly plant.  You wouldn’t last long with that attitude.

And then you’d get fired. And then you’d wonder if there was some sort of group you could join to protect you from this kind of situation.

This has me contemplating what it would be like if the people in my office had to build the stuff we make where I work.

Medical Emergency?

That was my thought. If I was paying for one of these, I wouldn’t want the one assembled by somebody from Accounting or Human Resources. 

But imagine how high the quality of the finished product will be! It’s being made by senior staff, so it must be better, right?