I think in your mind you're thinking a lot worse than what you posted. It's hard to decipher what you wrote. I've had my share of bad experiences. Worst was when I broke my collarbone and couldn't work. The employer was upset because they were busy, so when I went back to work, they tried to cut my pay. I asked to be laid off and the then new plant manager went and punched my time card and said, "we'll right it up you quit". On top of that they wouldn't give me a reference(for 6 years). I worked there for 2 1/2 years, was never late, hardly ever sick and often got picked to do the harder jobs like crawling 15 ft. inside an 18" pipe to an x-ray weld on a fire tube. Inside an 18" pipe isn't a lot of room to move, let alone weld. Everybody in the shop agreed I got shafted.
Why was the employer like this? I broke my collarbone on my motorcycle. The retiring plant manager even asked if I was going to sell it. Another guy broke his collarbone skiing and had no problems when he came back. Other employee's said I should talk to the apprentice board about it and they basically said it's a pretty big company, implying they didn't want to enforce their own requirements. My wage was cut to a 3rd year apprentice wage. The employment laws say a 3rd year has to get a minimum 90% of the journeyman rate. I said, shouldn't that automatically set the journeyman rate? Then the guy waffled and said that's more to protect the apprentices. If that's the case, what's the use getting your ticket? I even had another employee that would testify what the journeyman rate was. The new plant manager also gave another guy 1 day notice of termination after he'd been there 5 years. Only good thing that happened was the new plant manager got demoted and left that company in disgrace. Apparently he was the joke of the shop. 3 month's after that I was in the hospital with encephalitis and couldn't work for about a year. I know losing the job the way I did had a lot to do with getting sick. Dave
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