Seniority counts! I hold the door for the elderly. (now that's
snarky!)
I was on a construction site in Florida about 10 years ago, a new
powerplant, actually, when one of the major subcontractors called the
local union business agent to tell him he need five more workers
beginning the next day and continuing for a number of weeks.
"Send me the graybeards," I recall him saying, "I want guys who know how
to do it right the first time, without supervision."