"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:14:47 GMT, Dan Krueger
wrote:

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:44:30 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:14:31 -0500, Harry Krause
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I try to hire union retirees to handle my plumbing or electrical
work.

I knew that was coming. :)

Hey...I want experienced, *licensed* journeymen on the more difficult
projects, or supervised apprentices on the simpler ones. When I have a
union mechanic on my property, I don't have to worry about him screwing
up
the job, nor do I have to wonder what he was doing on his last job.

IIRC, I once called the local union to ask about finding a plumber. The
retard on the phone made like I was asking how much Jupiter weighed.


ROTFL!!!

Last year I helped a friend of mine set up at a hunting/fishing/boat
show and the convention center was "union". We set up the booth and
were working on the lighting for the boats when along comes a union
steward who told us that we needed to have a union electrician inspect
the lighting rack. That in and of itself wasn't a problem - we paid
the hour electrician's fee, the guy inspected the lighting, passed it
as "good" and charged us and additional fee to plug in the extension
cord - I kid you not.

Guess how much the plugging in of the extension cord cost?

$50.00

$175.

Damn. From now on, I'm charging my son $100 every time I put a can of ginger
ale in the refrigerator for him.