I guess it's really true that hard times bring out the real personality behind the mask. I suppose that goes 10x for economic disasters that supposedly happen on the order of once every 100 years or so, because the masks seem to be getting ripped off and what they're revealing is pretty darn ugly.Lately, I've been getting an earful on how despicable union workers are from some of my colleagues here at House Harkonnen - especially auto workers. If there were not actual people who were affected by all this crap, I suppose the whole thing would be comical but considering that there's going to be a lot of human carnage throughout this journey through linear miles of concertina wire that our captains of finance have cleverly laid out around us in all directions, I pretty much cringe whenever I think of what this new year is going to bring us.
Now, I work in an industry that literally makes products that no one stands behind. Unique, apparently, in all commercial industries (except, of course, the financial industry), the Software industry basically sells shit that they barely guarantee will install. The entire industry literally does not guarantee that the products they sell will do anything at all - all they warranty is the DVD or CD ROM you have will be able to be read. The fact that your computer blows up, loses all your financial data and regurgitates all your personal information to some site in Russia... well, that's just the way things work in Software you see.
Which is why it's literally hilarious to hear anyone in this industry talk with disdain about union workers of any type. I mean, say what you will about auto workers, but at least their products don't randomly blow up and take out half a city block in the process. And given the numbers of time wasting morons that add less than zero value to anything that is done, it's even more hilarious to hear anyone in the Software industry dis the teacher's union.
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