[anniegetyourgun]

How demeaning to the human spirit. The auto industry is bankrupt on many levels.

[Monsieur Poirot]

“How demeaning to the human spirit.”

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Working a job like that comes with a certain dehumanizing aspect to it already (trying not to overstate it), but take the job and add a union that does all your negotiating for you, tells you that you are oppressed and would be chewed up w/out them, tells you that you’d have nothing but for them, and you’ve got a real recipe for disaster.

[reagan_fanatic]

How demeaning to the human spirit

Right you are.

In my business, we sometimes suffer through slow periods where there isn't much to do. Drives me CRAZY. While I try to find other things to do that need to be done, I'd rather be working. Just sitting around is nuts.

[count-your-change]

Wasn’t that the way Japanese companies got rid of unwanted managers? Just give the guy a windowless office and absolutely nothing to do, no phone, no paperclips to count, nothing. Very shortly the guy quits and the company is saved the problem of firing him.