Comments by "Gen Ohmni" (@KingOhmni) on "Google Employees Form its First Union, Wokeness to Ensue" video.
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Hold up. So a workforce that is one of the most provided for and well looked after, in the form of chill out rooms, pay packages, holiday arrangements etc, is still bitching and whining about shit enough to unionise? Fucking lel. Bunch of privliaged bootlicking pricks they are and as for unions.
Story time! (TL:DR, I -a filthy capitalist - helped a worker win a work accident payout while the union did fuck all to unearth genuine illegal work practices and fraud by the HR manager (typical fat karen type)... then I get fired and land myself with a criminal conviction after the fact of whisleblowing to the local health and safety authority. Cos I was an idiot. Doh!)
I was once a thorn in the ass of my store manager over 'elf 'N' saftey gaffer) and everyone under them to the point I was getting pulled aside from time to time and told I am stichting people up in a court of law over what I was writing in the safe and legal book. Stuff like, this 4 sided Z based metal cage (serial # whatever) was sent to us like this on today on xxyy and despite logging it 2 weeks ago here it is again as dangerous as erver with sharp broken metal sticking out at eye level for most people. Stuff like that.
Well that kinda pissed a younger and more ideological me off so I went harder on the HS stuff. And despite my constant bitching about various ,but ultimately legit, things a member of staff that was untrained to operate a docking leveler (mechanical doo-hickey for bridging the gap between wagon and warehouse) let alone how to unload was instructed to do so. They were directed to do so by a member of management that looked on but did fuck all to help (even though he knew how to operate the control panel). Said team member walks forward and falls between wagon and warehouse. Fractured her foot, knocked a front tooth whens he face planted onto the metal deck of the refrigerated wagon and naturually banged her knee up real bad.
So. 'natch I look into this and speak to said memeber of staff and find out they got a phone call from the Human Resources manager to ask her about the accident which under UK Law is a breach of privacy and a total no no for a manager to do of any level. Despite explaining to her what I just told you dear reader this sterotypical unfuckable fat cunt of an insufferable bitch of a HR manager wrote into an official record that in that phone call in the words of the injured team member when queried on the whatr happened.
"I choose to perfrom an acitivity I was not trained for and need to be sent for refreshment training." Bull fucking shit I anit having this. So me being me who was a much liked Backdoorman (that was me title and there are many a joke in there as you can imagine) by the wagon drivers I started asking around. A couple weeks after all this BS settles and the team member has lawyered up only to be told Tesco PLC accepts zero responsibility, see HR phone calll, in walks a driver that winks at me as we start the offloading. Managers proceed to leave me to do a 3 man job and the driver asks if the member of staff is okay. I ask him, without giving him any details. Can you tell me in your own words what happened. He laughs his arse off and pulls 3 handwrote A4 pieces of paper that went into military detail of what happened, who said what, when, time and date, even got eye whitness signatures and all that good stuff. He said he had seen this happen a few times so always makes a hand wrote account of any accident he bears witness to. And was ex Royal Marines. So ya know. Solid account he wrote.
Anyway, his account totally tallies with the member of staff. So I distract management (felt like a secret mission lol), ensure member of staff can speak to driver and 3 days later she walks in and gives me a big hug, and she was a tiny lesbian some 20 years older than me back then, and thanked me cos the moment she gave her lawyer that letter Tesco acceptred 100% liability and in the interim the USDAW union did fuck all to get to the bottom of anything, let alone ensure that bitch of a HR manager got fired.
So. Moral of the story for anyone who got this far. Unions are just power structures and will always become self serving. If you give a shit about workers rights then actually fucking do something about it rather than standing on soap boxes or letting Marx inspired nonsense taint your mind. Oh and that HR manager. She eneded up getting fired after a minimum of 5 years of serious fraud came to light in the form of loading up shopping carts with goods (from electrics to day to day foodstuffs) and just walking out the door every Sunday for as long as the store security tapes went back which I believe was 6 months but they got sent off to a central storage facility for another 2 years if I recall. Bottomline that woman, who went out of her way to fuck more than one person over (including a person with learning disabilities and seriously fucked back) but she never faced any kind of legal consequence despite union involvment. Just a tarnished career.
And there's a lot, lot more to all this I could go into but let's just end like this. I ended up fired for gross misconduct and a criminal conviction for theft by employee. So who am I to judge... beyond the highly likely fact that they went after me cos I caused them to get fined by the local council over HS violations and book cooking in light of helping a worker get an accident payout and I whistleblew on the store in question. But that bitch of a HR manager was merely fired despite at what could easily have been 250000 pounds worth of fraud.
Man. That store was crazy looking back on it. One dude managed to get 12ks worth of ipods and such like out the door before getting fired (in a 3 month period, damn good return on your time lmao) and even he simply got fired. So another moral is be careful about making shit role downhill I suppose.
Right, I really will shut up and watch the video now.
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