Strikebreaker (sc@b) retiring

eagle10

A strike breaker is retiring this week.
They have never paid in to any collection and as you can see came to work across a picket.

It seems to bother nobody but me, I dont want to give anything towards the collection or the party.......... but dont want people thinking I am the miserable one...

I dont want to voice my opinions on crossing a picket people will think Im a freak what should I do.????

RedXIV

Well personally I wouldn't begrudge a man who crossed a picket. If I had a family to feed, I wouldn't risk my job by striking...but the not contributing to collections I can see being stingy. If it annoys you that much, just say you haven't got any money on you for the collection and you'll catch up with them later and then just forget about it

eagle10

RedXIV wrote: »

Well personally I wouldn't begrudge a man who crossed a picket. If I had a family to feed, I wouldn't risk my job by striking...but the not contributing to collections I can see being stingy. If it annoys you that much, just say you haven't got any money on you for the collection and you'll catch up with them later and then just forget about it

The man never had a mortgage no family wont spend money his job was not at risk..... that is what hurts me.

See as you see it people would see me as being stingy but the guy is such a bum alwys taking smokes and money from people and I know if I say I dont have it someone will put it in for me and I'll have to pay them back I really dont want to give him anything and need a way to get out of it without looking like a miser

Eoin

You really could have left the whole picket thing out of this thread. I would absolutely cross one if I was still in a union and I didn't agree with the strike. It can take as much (if not more) principle to cross a picket line as it does to be part of one - what with the bullying and childish name calling that can come from the strikers.

Anyhow - if he's stingy in general and wouldn't put his hand in his pocket for someone else that's leaving, then do what RedXIV suggested and say you'll sort it out later. Or just try make yourself scarce when you see the collection coming around.

Iamhere

Don't pay in because you wont like the person and as they have never paid in to any other collection not because they crossed a picket, personally id cross a picket if i didn't agree with the strike...

Jumpy

eagle10 wrote: »

I dont want to voice my opinions on crossing a picket people will think Im a freak what should I do.????

You already have. If you dont want to, dont give it.

bbam

Let it go... the guy didn't kill anybody and in the bigger scheme of life crossing a picket isn't a big thing...

Work and work related problems should be kept in perspective...way down near the bottom.
You "work to live not live to work"

Give to the collection or don't, I'm sure nobody will care..

He'll be gone soon and you can get on with your life and he with his..

My advice though is relax about this stuff.... The minute your not paying contributions you will be forgotten by the union.. Nobody only the poxy union leaders would applaud calling this guy a scab.

mrgardener

bbam wrote: »

My advice though is relax about this stuff.... The minute your not paying contributions you will be forgotten by the union.. Nobody only the poxy union leaders would applaud calling this guy a scab.

Don't contribute, if thats how you feel. If thats your decision, I hope its because you don't like him personally, rather than begrudging him trying to work whilst others were on strike. If he passed the picket line, thats his business - not yours.

Ace2007

lol i'd happily cross any picket line, guy has job and is gettin paid to work and you slag him off for doin his job, lol, no wonder this country is so fcuked.

shoegirl

Sounds like you just don't like the guy. Whatever his personal position is on strikes is his right to hold and not yours to judge. If you don't like him, don't contribute. Simple as that.

doolox

I'm sick of collections for this and that and make a point of never paying into them and making it as public as possible to avoid the weapon of embarrassment that these leeches use to force people to pay into them.

I usually keep my donations private and nobodies business but my own.

We once had collections organised for junior management/admin types in a place where I worked. Very few collections were organised for people working on the shop floor. I made a point of not paying into to them.

Its all a racket.

rightwingdub

doolox wrote: »

I'm sick of collections for this and that and make a point of never paying into them and making it as public as possible to avoid the weapon of embarrassment that these leeches use to force people to pay into them.

I usually keep my donations private and nobodies business but my own.

We once had collections organised for junior management/admin types in a place where I worked. Very few collections were organised for people working on the shop floor. I made a point of not paying into to them.

Its all a racket.

Same where I work as well, I'll donate to people who I like but if I don't like them then they get nothing:D

ScouseMouse

You seem to be proccupied by your hate of this guy, calling him a scab and a strikebreaker shows this.

If you dont want to contribute, then dont.