Replying to a message of Bob Klahn to Tom Walker:

 TW>> Goofing off and poor work is like some sort of Plague
 TW>> amongst Union workers. Even the few best they may have at
 TW>> one point become infected.

 BK>  Gooding foo and poor work is like some sort of plague amongst
 BK>  non-union workers. Union workers tend toward a much higher level  of
 BK> performance.

That has not been my experience.

 BK>  BTW, why would you even tolerate poor work from anyone, union or 
 BK> not?

I don't.  Some employers will in order to get labor peace.  The auto workers,
for instance, are (in)famous for shoddy work - especially on Mondays when
they're hung over and Fridays when they're expecting the weekend off.  Most
auto assembly plants, for instance, have a crew at the end of the line that
inspects and fixes mistakes.

In 1976 I bought a brand new Dodge Aspen.  I was quite happy with it until
the bolt fell out of the brake linkage about two weeks after I took delivery,
nobody had bothered to put a nut on it and none of the inspections noticed it
was miossing.  Fortunately I was doing about five mph in a parking lot at the
time.  Had I been in a situation where I *NEEDED* those brakes I'd be dead.

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