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How Well Does Fox News Mix with Reality?

All our news comes from AP or Rueters anyway, so who cares if the parent company of your "news channel" that delivers those stories also has a division that plays crappy reality shows? Fox is spinning right, CNN is spinning left, and newspapers are circling the drain. They're all equally sensationalist and opinionated - but it doesn't really matter. You can watch news casters that make you happy, or you can watch the ones that piss you off - they're all sourcing their stories from the same place.

The Test of Wills at Boeing

I'd just like to thank all the worthless union pricks in Seattle and elsewhere for screwing the rest of us non-union employees out of any kind of bonus this year, and all the shareholders out of decent dividends. You greedy pieces of crap don't seem to understand that you're hurting more than just the company execs with your strike. You always think the company OWES you something - well guess what - this company doesn't OWE you a GD thing. This company is even with you every two weeks when you get your paycheck. You should just suck it up, take some pride in your company and yourselves, and do an honest day's work (i.e. not lounging around jacking off for 8 hours a day so you can pick up overtime) for an honest day's pay. And by the way, YOU'RE MACHINISTS! YOU DON'T DESERVE HUGE SALARIES! I'm not saying you should be working for a bowl of rice or starving, but seriously, there's not one machinist anywhere who should be making $65K/year! That's ridiculous! All this strike does is reenforce the company's desire to outsource. This union problem will eventually work itself out when Boeing has moved all it's assembly either A) offshore, or B) to Right to Work states. I personally can't wait for the day that we're free of unions once and for all. We'll just have to see how many of you are willing to move to Oklahoma to work on the 737 replacement!
And you know what? Executives make big salaries - that's how it works. They make more than you because they're WORTH more than you. Think about it...a machinist quits/retires/gets fired. Who cares? Shareholders don't notice, the company just hires another one, and they probably get more work out of him for awhile, because the new guy doesn't have seniority so he's not as free to sit around doing nothing all day. And life goes on. It's the same for engineers or middle management - union or not. But if the company loses an executive it's huge - it drives the stock price, along with investor and customer confidence in the company. So maybe McNerny did may $12 million last year - so what? If he's the face the customers (civil or government) and investors want to see, then I say let him have his money! Instead of bitching about it you could always get off your asses, get MBAs, and start applying yourselves so that someday YOU could be CEOs. But instead you'll continue to delude yourselves into thinking you're irreplacable and entirely responsible for the company's turnaround. I wonder though, have any of you stiking union members noticed that the stock price has dropped by nearly 50% in the last 9 months? Or that we haven't won a big military contract in quite some time - including the tanker, which was most likely overpriced due to the outrageous labor costs the company has to pay it's unskilled labor. Boeing may have a large backlog of orders now, but the only way the company can continue to be competetive is to keep it's costs down. So it is both thick-headed and short-sighted for the union to piss and moan about kicking in $50-$100/month for health insurance (like the rest of us), or having to, God-forbid, pay a $250 deductible at the hospital (like the rest of us), or whining about larger pensions when the plan that's currently in place for them is VERY good considering most companies have done away with pensions all-together - and not easy for the company to maintain, especially with people living longer.
So to sum up - you people need to get your greedy spoiled butts back to the assembly lines and be happy with everything you have. And leave your sense of entitlement at the door. If you don't think the company is treating you fairly, then f-ing quit and try to find a better deal somewhere else. Good luck, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.