The work experience at individual stores in a retail chain, for an employee below management level has very little to do with the overall policies of the store, and more with the character of the management. Bad management in one store COULD be an indicator of a companywide trend, but probably not, and therefore, moving from one store to another can be a completely different experience because of the managers' specific attitudes and requirements. I know, we've had three separate Store Managers in the 2 years I've worked at the local CVS/pharmacy. Company policy remains the same, but the work experience is quite different w/ each.

Rob, unions are good for one thing - protecting the rights of the worker. they are not set up so that when lazy *** ****s decide they don't like their working conditions, or they haven't gotten a full 3.5% wage increase this year, they can just walk off the job leaving the public ****ed!
these stupid ****ing *******s decide to go on strike leaving the education of students ****ed because they haven't got a contract. it's not like they're not getting paid. wait until the school year is out and then go on strike. get a contract at the end of may for ****s sakes. they're just ****ing up peoples lives 'cause they think they can. ****ing *****!!!

Unions were great in the past. But since most employers don't have as much ability to consistantly **** their employees anymore, the unions only cause trouble.

I beg to differ.

Without the union, UPS as a company would be ****ing us REAL hard right about now.

The same goes for any unionized machine shop I've been around. As well as Vulcan Heart, where my father worked. They make industrial super ovens, like you might see at quiznos. The labor side of the company was real suck untill they unionized.


Its not about being lazy, at all. Teachers however, I don't like being unionized. However I do feel that teachers should get a bonus based upon the average of sucky people they have to teach in each class. That'd stop them from *****ing.

As much as I want to go on a tirade about how much I distaste the teachers union and think it's the single greatest destructive force on education, the OP did want us to return to topic.

The main problem with teachers unions is that most of them consider tenure more important than performence. So you have all these teachers that are about to retire and they don't give a **** anymore, and it shows in their teaching.

Word up.

They don't need to be close to retirement for that to happen.

It's more likely to happen the longer they've been teaching.