Sunday, August 21, 2005
Northwest Airlines mechanics strike
When I read this article yesterday, it seemed pretty obvious that there was going to be a shit-storm. 'sho-nuff, and I'm not here to blow any smoke. Let's just look at some of the economics. GUYK has a couple of posts on the subject and his comments about WORK ETHIC are worth reading. My experience with employee weighed overhead is pretty similar to his 30% of wages, varies somewhat with the private enterprise, usually these daze a bit higher as the beaurocracy continues to grow and compliance costs escalate. Quite a few of my years were spent subcontracting for the military/industrial complex. These were/are publicly traded corporations and were all unionized. The normal employee overhead was 80% back when I quit doing that sort of work back in the early 80's, doubt it's gone down. Sandbagging, feather-bedding, theft, misappropriations, shear graft.. Unbelievable. Gummit money. Hey! It's FREE! Yeah. Right. Whatever. (Beth, I don't know if you want me to link your blog due to me being rather crude. I read yours daily! ;o)
Cost plus. Those are a license to steal. Damn-near every asshat project (including the precision machining of huge cast blocks of acrylic into furniture for the boss's son's apartment) gets funds from those slick "cost plus" contracts. Yep, got lots of those stories. Some didn't involve 10's of thousands but 10's of millions. Nope, carried no proof with me and I'm not lookin' to cease sucking air. That's what the GAO is for. We send them lots of our money to check out that type of shit. There was one outfit I did some contract work long enough for me to evaluate a section that had 134 employees. 12 of them did over 3/4ths of the work. That one was the worst of the lot.
I digress. My 3 semi-loyal readers know that's just the way things are with me and the spambots, hell, they don't care.
..back to the NW Airline stuff. Let's accept GUYK's 30% and my 80% as the limits for employee overhead and take the average for the rather tightly gummit regulated airline industry. That $70,000 per year paycheck multiplied by 1.55 equals per employee cost of $108,500 per year. Even at the 30% it's $91K. Does the work product of that employee provide AT LEAST that much revenue to the employer? Hard to justify keeping a critter around if it can't break even unless it's a pet. Or unless it'll vote for you. Gee. Thanks all you union bigshots. Thanks for exporting our jobs to our little brown and yellow brothers and sisters in Central America and Asia. According to the article linked at the top, NW already has 37% of their maintainence done offshore. In case your are curious, the work done on US (and probably quite a few others using US air space) carriers require FAA certification (last time I paid decent attention).
I could rant on for pages about predatory capitalism (Jack Welch comes immediately to mind but that's only because my GE Chinee stove won't make me pies anymore! ;o), abusive unions, crooked pols of ANY stripe, but my time would be better spent finishing the text on a neat old project. Or picking my nose.
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Left out a couple of things yesterday about the proper treatment of sex predators and rapists. Tall tree, short rope is perfectly satisfactory as far as I'm concerned providing the case is solid. "Regret sex" doesn't count as in that fiasco with the LA basketball player even if he's a slimeball. Date "rape" waay too often is of the same ilk. Statutory, well, I kinda grew up in the 'souf lots of years ago. Weren't too many of us that made it much beyond 16 without sweet thang having even more hands than self at the drive-in! Whole 'nuther topic! Whole bunch of kinda scary memories! Roxanne, you DID know daddy had that shotgun awful handy didn't ya?!
They'll keep.
The predators and rapists are easy to segregate from the normal Christian/Judeo ethic stuff most of the time. Child rape and violent rape, most of the time pretty easy. Yeah, broad brush. Damn accurate broad brush.
Forget chemical castration. Actually forget knife castration. That's too kind. The preverts (sic) need to know that upon conviction they get to meet the Elastrator! If you click on that site, it's probably better if you only expand the first photo. I'll link it here so you won't be tempted to expand the other two. I did. Turned old cast-iron me fishbelly white. Don't look Ethyl! Yee gods!
There's always the Burdizzo Emasculatone. Kinder. Gentler. Probably designed for use during the Spanish Inquisition. It hurts to think about it.
During my years working with sexually abused kids, if I were offered an option on what to do with the perps it would have been a .22 caliber double-tap under the ear. Now I think I'd prefer the #3 result on the Elastrator site. THEN the double-tap after a week or so. Don't click on that. Just don't. If you're a gal and just gotta, go give your old man a short shoulder rub and a kiss, go talk with the kids, then pour yourself a few fingers of some high-test. If you're a guy, just don't. No matter how much she loves you, not even Viagra is gonna work for a while. It's that bad. Those creatures deserve removal and from my experience with some of the raped children, I consider that treatment as close to Hell as those bastards can get.
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Whew! It's (according to Accuweather) only 95 with a 115 heat index now. Down-right chilly. I came back in about an hour ago and ought to go back outside and start splitting some wood for winter since it's getting so cool. Male liz was laying between the front door and the fridge where there's cold, good stuff, fearless little piece of stir-fry. I need names for the pair. The book says they live for most of eight years, probably longer than I will. Frick and Frack? ..open for suggestions..
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Fun link of the day: NASA computer simulation of air traffic over US 13 .1 MB Quicktime, might be a slow load. The link does NOT go directly to the download site so it's safe to click. I've over 2 million air miles, thought this was kinda neat!
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Cost plus. Those are a license to steal. Damn-near every asshat project (including the precision machining of huge cast blocks of acrylic into furniture for the boss's son's apartment) gets funds from those slick "cost plus" contracts. Yep, got lots of those stories. Some didn't involve 10's of thousands but 10's of millions. Nope, carried no proof with me and I'm not lookin' to cease sucking air. That's what the GAO is for. We send them lots of our money to check out that type of shit. There was one outfit I did some contract work long enough for me to evaluate a section that had 134 employees. 12 of them did over 3/4ths of the work. That one was the worst of the lot.
I digress. My 3 semi-loyal readers know that's just the way things are with me and the spambots, hell, they don't care.
..back to the NW Airline stuff. Let's accept GUYK's 30% and my 80% as the limits for employee overhead and take the average for the rather tightly gummit regulated airline industry. That $70,000 per year paycheck multiplied by 1.55 equals per employee cost of $108,500 per year. Even at the 30% it's $91K. Does the work product of that employee provide AT LEAST that much revenue to the employer? Hard to justify keeping a critter around if it can't break even unless it's a pet. Or unless it'll vote for you. Gee. Thanks all you union bigshots. Thanks for exporting our jobs to our little brown and yellow brothers and sisters in Central America and Asia. According to the article linked at the top, NW already has 37% of their maintainence done offshore. In case your are curious, the work done on US (and probably quite a few others using US air space) carriers require FAA certification (last time I paid decent attention).
I could rant on for pages about predatory capitalism (Jack Welch comes immediately to mind but that's only because my GE Chinee stove won't make me pies anymore! ;o), abusive unions, crooked pols of ANY stripe, but my time would be better spent finishing the text on a neat old project. Or picking my nose.
* * * * * *
Left out a couple of things yesterday about the proper treatment of sex predators and rapists. Tall tree, short rope is perfectly satisfactory as far as I'm concerned providing the case is solid. "Regret sex" doesn't count as in that fiasco with the LA basketball player even if he's a slimeball. Date "rape" waay too often is of the same ilk. Statutory, well, I kinda grew up in the 'souf lots of years ago. Weren't too many of us that made it much beyond 16 without sweet thang having even more hands than self at the drive-in! Whole 'nuther topic! Whole bunch of kinda scary memories! Roxanne, you DID know daddy had that shotgun awful handy didn't ya?!
They'll keep.
The predators and rapists are easy to segregate from the normal Christian/Judeo ethic stuff most of the time. Child rape and violent rape, most of the time pretty easy. Yeah, broad brush. Damn accurate broad brush.
Forget chemical castration. Actually forget knife castration. That's too kind. The preverts (sic) need to know that upon conviction they get to meet the Elastrator! If you click on that site, it's probably better if you only expand the first photo. I'll link it here so you won't be tempted to expand the other two. I did. Turned old cast-iron me fishbelly white. Don't look Ethyl! Yee gods!
There's always the Burdizzo Emasculatone. Kinder. Gentler. Probably designed for use during the Spanish Inquisition. It hurts to think about it.
During my years working with sexually abused kids, if I were offered an option on what to do with the perps it would have been a .22 caliber double-tap under the ear. Now I think I'd prefer the #3 result on the Elastrator site. THEN the double-tap after a week or so. Don't click on that. Just don't. If you're a gal and just gotta, go give your old man a short shoulder rub and a kiss, go talk with the kids, then pour yourself a few fingers of some high-test. If you're a guy, just don't. No matter how much she loves you, not even Viagra is gonna work for a while. It's that bad. Those creatures deserve removal and from my experience with some of the raped children, I consider that treatment as close to Hell as those bastards can get.
* * * * * *
Whew! It's (according to Accuweather) only 95 with a 115 heat index now. Down-right chilly. I came back in about an hour ago and ought to go back outside and start splitting some wood for winter since it's getting so cool. Male liz was laying between the front door and the fridge where there's cold, good stuff, fearless little piece of stir-fry. I need names for the pair. The book says they live for most of eight years, probably longer than I will. Frick and Frack? ..open for suggestions..
* * * * * *
Fun link of the day: NASA computer simulation of air traffic over US 13 .1 MB Quicktime, might be a slow load. The link does NOT go directly to the download site so it's safe to click. I've over 2 million air miles, thought this was kinda neat!
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Appreciate the kind words and the link. I learned from my many years in the miltary just how screwed up government unions can be and can tell some stories about trying deal with them-especially contracted labor. Cost overruns are a fact of life-and of coursethe gottdam govmint is a big part of the problem. I went out local purchase one time in Alaska to get new carpet for an office building and could get a taker locally. Takes to damn long for a contractor to get paid. had to bring one in-along with the carpet from Seattle at more than three times what it would have cost if I could have just wrote a flippin check to a local contractor. Go figure.
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