Lingle cuts 3 days a month to all state employees

[Kahunascott]

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Originally posted by macuu222

Maybe it has something to do with seniority and how senior employees would rather lose people than reduce their own salaries. It's a selfish attitude to take...but when it comes down to your own families survival...you do what you have to do.

If the unions refuse the furloughs...and the governor orders layoffs...then those people that have been working for many years who have senority will still have their jobs and not have to take a wage cut and the people with fewer years would be gone to make up for it.

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Seniority is one of the issues I would never understand and its part of the “Union Mentality” that I will never accept. Yes, I was a Teamster for a few years in the highly unionized State of New York. I worked with this other Teamster that had seniority on me and this guy was a real slug. He would do as little as possible, call in sick whenever and cost the company a ton of money. I would run circles around this guy producing way more then he could. When ever a promotion became available he was first on the list for the job, why, cuz’ he was senior man. He didn’t get the promotion because he was the BEST candidate he got it because he was employed the longest.
This example is just one of many that damages the companies production, increases cost and lowers profit. Multiply this by thousands of employees hundreds of cases and all it leads to is the ever growing soup line.