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That article burns my ass up.

I detest trade unions. It's not that I just dislike them, I'd like to see every single one of them go up in a giant bright flash,
and leave nothing behind but ashes...
...I mean, I REALLY ain't got no use for them, at all. I worked under one once (SEIU), but 8 or 9 months of that was all I
could stand, so I quit that job rather than stay under the thumb of the union...
...There just aren't words big enough to convey my contempt for labor unions...

Me too, I was even a representative for my department in a Trade Union for a couple of months until I saw what these alleged
'noble' institutions had become. I've already told the tale of how -during a round of forced redundancies were occurring where I
worked, that particular union was merging with another and the Regional Rep told me didn't have time to deal with problems of
the thirty-or-so members because he was worried about his own job.
'F*ck you, I'm alright Jack' came to mind.

This was after I'd left my enjoyable job of emptying waste-bins and swabbing out bathrooms, a solitary job that I now wish I'd
stayed with.

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Later on, the same company asked me to be the Department Rep for silly little meetings where sandwiches were provided during
conversations designed to get the people there to understand how traumatic it is to run a failing newspaper company and how bad
the management felt when they tossed employees over the side.

The meetings always took around two hours and would always be scheduled just before a standard 9-5 lunch-break.
That way, anyone passing would believe commitment to the company was high because we were seen as having to work through
our lunch time!
(Hence the sandwiches that were conveniently made by an outside caterer that very morning. Talk about saving money!)) 

One of their favourite requirements were 'worksheets', where everyone who wasn't a Journalist, in sales or in management, were
required to list their minute-by-minute activities. After explaining that my work was slowed-down due to having to write out what
I was doing, they insisted the information was needed for reasons they never fully explained!

Since my department's tasks were basically repetitive, we just wrote out one worksheet and we filled in the date every day!
(Whadda' yer' mean, all the banners look the same?!!)


But I did force one of the management to admit the sheets were just something to have and look at occasionally before he tossed
them out after a couple of weeks. I also know that it was an exercise purely created to give -at least, two people a reason to work
there! To prove the futility of the worksheet exercise, I had to go back to my old ways and forage in places that people don't go.

When a private meeting of Department Heads had ended, I asked an affable Supervisor what the discussion was about.
He was vague -of course, but he admitted that the main topic had been about getting the employees to write out what they did on
the worksheets.

Now don't get me wrong, many of us believed these papers were to be used for grading of who to make redundant, but I'd found
hundreds of them tossed out and because of the amount and weekly disposal of them, there was no way any viable information was
being collated and evaluated in such a short time.
This departmental requirement really was just to keep a couple of favoured people in their roles and whoever's head would be on
the chopping-block for redundancy... well, those papers had nothing to do with it.

To impress one's subordinates, notes are usually written down and since we -including the management, knew that this was all
bullshit, those notes would be torn-up and tossed in the trash-can. But nobody hunts through waste-paper bins in someone's
office do they...? I mean, the person would be working in that room and it would be locked at night anyway... wouldn't it?
Like most people, one's assumed reality doesn't necessarily jibe with true reality and rubbish doesn't magically disappear.

With a lot of sticky-tape, the torn-up notes that insisted that 'anything could be written down' on the worksheets as long as they
were used -or looked used, became readable again and anyone in the management system would be able to recognise the manager's
handwriting and certainly be appalled with comments like: '...I mean, it wouldn't do us guys any good if one them got hit by a bus and
hadn't written out their daily work-sheet!'


And when produced at one of these silly meetings, they all looked shocked and offered lame alternatives to what was obviously
evidence that the whole worksheet-idea was a sham. It came to a halt two weeks later and I believe some ass-kicking went on
behind closed-doors.

I always remember the adage -'But Who Watches The Watchers?'!!

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...And this, from the article:
'Over the past seven days, 947 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up 16% on a week earlier.'
Why do they use 28 days there, but only 48 hours to record deaths from the vaccine?

Why is the criteria "death after diagnosis of covid" instead of "death FROM covid"?
If I'm diagnosed with covid, then get run over by a train, my death would be recorded as a covid death under those
criteria!

When you're setting up a version of the truth, loading it with favourable statistics is always a good way of acquiring
a desired outcome!

You're right of course... (remember when you could use the word 'right' to mean correct, but the media and politicians
realised it would imply a political leaning and so, stay clear of that adjective!)... I could test positive for the Coof and
actually be negative, then hit by a train. But I'd still be classed as a leper on the list.

In the UK, they've ran over 320 million tests on a population of 67 million and arrived a result of 8 million cases.
Not deaths or extreme temporary/permanent injury from the sniffles, but cases. Cases that range from -just that, the
sniffles all the way through to requiring a ventilator to assist breathing.

As of 18th October 2021, the official graph shows 45 people-per-day die of what is listed as Covid. But how many
of those deaths were due to old age, maniac trains or London stabbings?!