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Originally Posted by ApK
Also, don't be so sure about the fight to be last in line. Most people want to go home at the end of the day.
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Not in my 40+ years experience of holding various non-union labor positions. If there's a system to be gamed for personal gain, then it WILL be gamed. Usually by the very same people who were screaming the loudest about the "injustice" and "wrongness" of it all in the first place. The ones who "just want to go home," already do so (and will continue to do so); quietly. Wondering what all the fuss from the loud-mouth, dead-beat trouble-makers is about THIS time. They know how things work. They abide if they can, they move on if they can't. Why? Because they
know that nobody ever gets paid for every second they work ... and nobody ever works for every second they get paid. They keep the ledger sheet balanced according to whatever generally accepted accounting principles their conscience dictates and they shut the hell up.
EDIT: Those same workers also get a big kick out of hearing what people years and miles removed from manual labor think about how manual laborers are treated ("Wait, you mean you actually perspire?! O. M. G.").