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I pretty much agree with everyone except for the smartass putdowns.
I have worked in a lot of places in my life. Quit many a job because I was annoyed by management or just plain bored.
I have worked both union and non union jobs and worked in engineering and as an unskilled labourer. Mostly in companies employing 20 or less people.
My experience has been that employee theft is very common. upwards of $500 a day in small companies. And it is contagious. X sees Y walking out the door with merchandise and thinks why don't they do something about that, and eventually figures out they (the employer) know and chose to do nothing. True in many cases. Makes the innocent person think, why not me. Many will succumb, May will not, but they will, on some level, feel betrayed by the employer who is effectively paying the bad employee a higher wage by ignoring the pilfering.
Some employers feel they need the bad employee, but overall, in my experience, a massive sigh of relief is heard when the employee quits. Like being hit on the head with a hammer...
I would not stay in a job that required a long lineup to get out paid or not. I hate lineups. But then I have always been able to find another job and some are not so lucky.
I really do not agree that it is the employees duty to point out the transgressions of others, whether it be theft or goofing off or just general incompetence. Many people think that ratting someone out is worse than the crime itself. I am not talking mafia ethics here, just the commonly stated to children "Nobody likes a tattletale" and fear of repercussions or loss of friendships. And again in my experience, most of these reports of transgressions are ignored by management as too trifling to deal with. Plus often in smaller companies especially, we know these people and like these people despite what they do. We do not want them to get fired even if we resent or abhor what they are doing.
I don't agree or disagree with Amazons tactics. I think the employees should be paid, but overall I think the most vociferous protesters are those that are guilty. The ones who are innocent are possibly experiencing some satisfaction that others are not getting the undocumented fringe benefits as easily as before.
Helen
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