Once upon a time I almost got fired for moving computer equipment from one side of a building to the other.
True story.
We had to wait 4 hours one time for a union guy to show up and move a truck 15 feet so we could access a door. When I offered to move it I was told I would be fired and possibly sued if I did. He made 3.5 hours of OT that day for 1 minute of actual work.
“Once upon a time I almost got fired for moving computer equipment from one side of a building to the other.”
My friends who worked on the North Slope during the Trans Alaska Pipeline told an interesting story. If someone delivered a package to a counter, the package couldn’t be handed to the person behind the counter. It had to be put down, let go, and then the other person could pick it up. Some union b.s.