Watching all these teams so far has shown me 1 thing............. we are further away then I thought.
- SABRES 89

we are closer to last in the east, then we are 8th in the east

we are closer to last in the east, then we are 8th in the east
- homiedclown

Last in the league.

person, woman, man, camera, tv
- Michael Pachla

Meltdown Mike stuck on skip.

trump had a great presser today


the media won't talk about it tomorrow
- homiedclown

listened to the entire 39-minute thing...

that wasn't a press conference, it was a mini-rally

You must not be part of one

I am, and of course we have our lousy employees like anywhere else.

The company I work for is a multinational corporation and my particular facility nets 70-80 million in profit a year. This is the type of company that should be known for taking care of its employees, but instead..

I became the first hire in a new contract where new hires no longer receive pensions. I have mediocre healthcare, poop dental but a decent 401k match. Absolutely no kickbacks otherwise, we dont even have a christmas party. Gain sharing is a thing of the past despite setting sales and profit records the past 2 years. Swimming in useless overhead and corporate dog and pony shows. Cant get proper tooling for the workers. Continually outsourcing machine work despite not saving money doing so. There used to be a gentlemans agreement not to outsource without the machine shop being on mandatory overtime, that is also a thing of the past. Poor management practices which strangle our ability to do the job in order to secure bonuses for themselves. The list goes on

Do you really believe if there was no union in this shop that they wouldnt slash every possible corner and wages to increase profits even more? And do you believe that is right?

70-80 MILLION in net profit a year
- ieetbred

Ideally you want management and workers to have equal power. Unions mainly accomplish that, not always, sometimes, it seems in your case, they're not quite powerful enough, and other times, like with some teachers unions, they're too powerful, but don't use their power wisely, namely to get their members more pay. Instead they use it to protect substandard members, and make it nigh impossible to fire them, even for cause. So they just do the Catholic shuffle, moving bad teachers around.

Like everything in life, it's gray. I have many teachers in my family. One district wanted the teachers to sanitize their rooms on the off day of a proposed hybrid schedule because they did the sanitizing at the beginning when no one knew wtf they were doing. That's bullpoop, and they nipped it in the bud.

"Matthews peaked early with his best NHL game of his career being his 1st one."


https://www.hockeybuzz.co...post_id=20789882#20789882

Union no Union, bigger the Company the pooptier they are.
- Buff36

Almost as if the further management becomes from the workers the less like people they treat them.

listened to the entire 39-minute thing...

that wasn't a press conference, it was a mini-rally
- Michael Pachla

Meltdown Mike stuck on skip.
- Alex the Great

sorry...


"Person, woman, man, camera, tv"
--Stable Genius

we are closer to last in the east, then we are 8th in the east
- homiedclown

Way too many variables with the development and/or continued development of Dahlin, Olofsson, Cozens, Mitts, Tage... Coupled with being way too weak down the middle and mediocre, at best in net. With a horrid pk, a coach with a 49-53 all time nhl record, a rookie gm, a handsy owner, with a new and improved “lean” model... yeah we are franked.

Almost as if the further management becomes from the workers the less like people they treat them.
- Wetbandit1

Very true, Unions cave in nowadays, they don't stand up like they used too.

I like the effort by spezza to get his guys goin, that was a good scrap too.
And now its heatin up. How fun it would be if the sabres were a part of this

Ideally you want management and workers to have equal power. Unions mainly accomplish that, not always, sometimes, it seems in your case, they're not quite powerful enough, and other times, like with some teachers unions, they're too powerful, but don't use their power wisely, namely to get their members more pay. Instead they use it to protect substandard members, and make it nigh impossible to fire them, even for cause. So they just do the Catholic shuffle, moving bad teachers around.

Like everything in life, it's gray. I have many teachers in my family. One district wanted the teachers to sanitize their rooms on the off day of a proposed hybrid schedule because they did the sanitizing at the beginning when no one knew wtf they were doing. That's bullpoop, and they nipped it in the bud.
- Wetbandit1

Admittedly our union is not that strong, at all lol

Got walked on in the contract i was hired in but we bounced back a little bit on the last one. But i make 50k a year before taxes, more if i work OT. Its more than most can say in this type of industry these days

Oh this is gonna be tough. Do the Pens or Oilers get the first pick. Lol

Watching all these teams so far has shown me 1 thing............. we are further away then I thought.
- SABRES 89

Oh this is gonna be tough. Do the Pens or Oilers get the first pick. Lol
- Gr8daygo

could be toronto as well

OMG! It's SIX WASTED YEARS for Conner McDavid.......He's just wasting away.....

This argument, which is made upon Jack as well, is such a typical Shoopisms!

could be toronto as well



- Michael Pachla

Oh man... Gary’s head is going to EXPLODE!

could be toronto as well



- Michael Pachla

Could be Edmonton

OMG! It's SIX WASTED YEARS for Conner McDavid.......He's just wasting away.....

This argument, which is made upon Jack as well, is such a typical Shoopisms!


- MEBSabresFAN

Oh man... Gary’s head is going to EXPLODE!
- Gr8daygo

The more this * Asterisk 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs and Stanley Cup Champions

I could just hear, buffalonians win the cup and then whine that the world deems this one , illegitimate

5 vs. 12. Not just a curse in basketball.

listened to the entire 39-minute thing...

that wasn't a press conference, it was a mini-rally
- Michael Pachla

U should know better than to waste your time with that trash

Admittedly our union is not that strong, at all lol

Got walked on in the contract i was hired in but we bounced back a little bit on the last one. But i make 50k a year before taxes, more if i work OT. Its more than most can say in this type of industry these days
- ieetbred

This country does not value the education of the working class.

That's why those with real money send their children to prestigious private schools. Because if anything screams Democracy, Bidding like Vultures at an Ebay Auction we've decided it would Benefit our citizens to Privatize and Compete for

Healthcare and Education

Any Country in the World is only as Great as the least of their citizens.

U should know better than to waste your time with that trash
- jdfitz77

i do it often...it's easy to listen to what you want to hear and tougher to listen to something you might not like or believe in