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   / Amazon? #361  
My view has been that unions are good if your boss is a jerk and bad if your boss is great!
The first manufacturing plant I worked at as an engineer in 1991 the employees there basically ran off the last union rep that wanted to start a union there. The management was great and there was no need for a union.
 
   / Amazon? #363  
My view has been that unions are good if your boss is a jerk and bad if your boss is great!
I figure if the company you work for is so bad that you truly need a union then you're living on borrowed time anyway. The company will either eat your soul or outsource you the first chance they get. If you have the skills to leave you should do so, and if you don't you're just postponing the inevitable.

I stop using amazon when they went woke.
Man, if I stopped using businesses that were woke I'd be forced to live naked in a van down by the river and eat squirrels for breakfast.
 
   / Amazon? #368  
We both use it. Whether it does anything useful for @beowulf's wife is another story...
Yeah, based on JethroB's suggestion we both started using it. We noticed, however, that it is not a permanent setting - you have to reset it each night - I suppose each time you turn the ipad on. It's one of those things, though, that will be difficult to assess- i.e., whether, or how much it is helpful - but we will continue using it. We also bought some clip-on blue blocker glasses. Again, hard to assess the overall positive effects - old eyes do get tired.
 
   / Amazon? #369  
Hmmm. It is a permanent setting for us...
You want to enable the scheduled mode, not set the manual mode, which is a one day thing.
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All the best,
Peter
 
   / Amazon? #370  
I figure if the company you work for is so bad that you truly need a union then you're living on borrowed time anyway. The company will either eat your soul or outsource you the first chance they get. If you have the skills to leave you should do so, and if you don't you're just postponing the inevitable.


Man, if I stopped using businesses that were woke I'd be forced to live naked in a van down by the river and eat squirrels for breakfast.
I seem to be doing fine and I'm full clothed.
 
   / Amazon? #376  
i think amazon prime is worth it if you make use of amazon video, free shipping + alot of movies + shows and cheaper than netflix
I don’t use anything but the free shipping, but it’s worth it to me. I frequently order from Amazon and often my orders are for cheap items where the shipping would cost more than the item. I order whatever I need that’s not available in local stores and order whenever needed. I love that about Prime. I just ordered 2 oil filters for my lawn mower for a cost of $14 total. Without Prime, the shipping would have probably cost $10.
 
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   / Amazon? #377  
Boomers got stroked with the tale that they deserved whatever rich people gave them. Big companies made $billions while they took away your pension plans.
Nobody "took away" my pension plan, nowhere I worked ever offered one. Other than government job, that perk went away with my parents' generation.
Other than a supermarket chain I worked at for a year or so while I was "between jobs", none of the companies I worked for in my entire career are still in business, so even if they did have a pension, it would be gone.
 
   / Amazon? #378  
1st major company I worked for had a pension plan. It pales in comparison to the money I have accumulated in my 401k plans.
 
   / Amazon? #379  
We had a pension plan and 401K. The coop board felt the need to phase it out so per new contract several years ago any new hires got an enhanced 401K.
 
   / Amazon? #380  
1st major company I worked for had a pension plan. It pales in comparison to the money I have accumulated in my 401k plans.
I haven't had an increase in my take home for a 40hr week in 10 years. I have my 401k set to increase each year for around the same amount as my annual raise.

The only time I notice the raise is when I get overtime.
 

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