Amidst my crazy busy week I had to find a moment to blog about this!!
After very little sleep, I came into work early to put fingers to keyboard just for you.
WHAT A NIGHT!
I thought the Republicans vs Democrats were bad. They got nothing on the Union Election experience I had last night. Never again!! 6 hours!! I missed my dance class for this foolishness.
Let me back up just a bit.
My office, has a union. Can't really comment about how good they are, but we have one nonetheless. lol Certainly pay enough in union dues.
Anyways, last evening they were holding union elections for which there was a very high turnout for CHANGE! Yup...that's what people wanted. I have nothing against the people we were trying to change though. I've worked with almost all of the people that were running for their positions, so I knew the personalities and was able to make an informed decision. Oh, and even share my personal opinion with those who asked.
There were about 5 categories that needed to be voted on. President, Vice-President, Chief Steward, Health and Safety and Secretary-Treasurer. Thank God, someone had the nerve to put a motion forward to get the voting done FIRST. THANK YOU! Usually they make you sit there and listen to union business before getting to the good stuff. But, the motion was carried and shortly after things started, the voting began.
Here is what is soooo dumb! Lack of organization i'd say.
They did each vote one at a time! No lie!
About 130 people lined up to vote for Union President. This is no electronic voting. Oh no! First, you had to initial that you got a voting slip. (For which you didn't need to show any ID). Then, vote behind a cardboard wall and re-initial that your vote had been cast. Next....you had to sit and wait for everyone to go through the process to cast their vote and then sit again to wait for the vote to be counted and result to be announced. After the announcement, it started again for the next category. In this case, it was Secretary-Treasurer. WTH?
Shouldn't the Vice-President vote come after the President? Ya think? hahaha Nope. Not sure who was calling the shots but people are not happy. And...the night only got worse.
Oh....and there was NO FOOD! They served us free tapwater. No coffee or nothing. At least until much later in the evening with all the complaints. We eventually got to share cookies that I think the President ran out and bought. One employee decided to take advantage of the situation and decided to walk around and sell some of his own Girl Guide Cookies. lol People were hungry!!
So finally, we got to the Vice-Presidential vote. One of the big votes that our office went to support. After the first vote, the third person on the ballot was eliminated. But, they had to do the voting again because the winner didn't have the majority. ??? Vote totals were 51, 29 and 28. Winner needed 54. Here is where the drama begins. The person that got eliminated stepped up to the microphone and thanked everyone for voting for her. Then, she publicly endorsed the second candidate because she's had this crazy rivalry with the guy who was leading. SMDH! Wrong Wrong Wrong!! Really and truly, the drama didn't start at the voting hall. Oh no....the drama started earlier in the day with the arrival of pricey colored flyers and emails about why people should not vote for a particular person. lol It was crazy. MUDSlinging!! But, the announcement the girl made was still shocking because it was very out of order! Sore loser. I feel bad for her. All she ended up doing was really pissing a lot of people off. I'm confident she swayed a lot of votes in the direction she didn't want just because of her stupid antics. lol That was the whisper!
Time for the second vote. Wait....how is it that there were 90 signatures and 91 votes? Something like that. Somebody is clearly up to some kind of sabotage. lol At least in the heat of the moment that was the thought. In all honesty, it's possible that somebody got a double slip because of how things were done. Hell, when I went to sign off that I was voting somebody had already signed off on my vote with their own initials. Huh? After all this.....we are down to a third vote!! This was really getting ridiculous. Throughout the night we kept losing people because it was getting just too late. People have kids. We gotta be at work in the morning. People have a life!
Here we are about 10pm running a third vote!! Grrr....and still had two more categories to vote for. I don't understand why they just couldn't hold all three votes at the same time. Or why while votes are being counted for one category that we allow people to vote for another category if the same people weren't running. I guess it made too much sense. Can you imagine if they had gone forward with their usual order of business before the voting? Thank God there were many from our office that were soldiers!! They stuck it out to the end with hopes that the right vote would prevail - The winner of the first two votes. Me...I stayed till the end. I live too damn far to quit now. And, as I mentioned, I had changed my plans to be there and lend my support. I had to finish.
In the end....we got a new VP, the one we wanted.
The two other votes are now put off because of time. Oh, and because people who couldn't vote for one category were able to vote for the delay. Made no sense but oh...they were the majority and whether they could vote or not they had to be counted. Let me tell you....wonky business!! Smh People are not happy for soo many reasons. And then the union wonders why people don't turn out for this stuff. Uh...HELLO!
Anyways....I am soo glad it's over. When in reality, it's really not over yet. Another important vote needs to be held. The one for Chief Steward. I already know how that will turn out. But i'm just sorry that we didn't get to get it over with last night. What a waste. Just wonder how and when the next vote will be handled.
The office is surely buzzing today!!
But TGIF! I gotta get my day started, as tired as I am.
Looking soooo forward to tomorrow. This is going to be a crazy busy weekend.
After very little sleep, I came into work early to put fingers to keyboard just for you.
WHAT A NIGHT!
I thought the Republicans vs Democrats were bad. They got nothing on the Union Election experience I had last night. Never again!! 6 hours!! I missed my dance class for this foolishness.
Let me back up just a bit.
My office, has a union. Can't really comment about how good they are, but we have one nonetheless. lol Certainly pay enough in union dues.
There were about 5 categories that needed to be voted on. President, Vice-President, Chief Steward, Health and Safety and Secretary-Treasurer. Thank God, someone had the nerve to put a motion forward to get the voting done FIRST. THANK YOU! Usually they make you sit there and listen to union business before getting to the good stuff. But, the motion was carried and shortly after things started, the voting began.
Here is what is soooo dumb! Lack of organization i'd say.They did each vote one at a time! No lie!
About 130 people lined up to vote for Union President. This is no electronic voting. Oh no! First, you had to initial that you got a voting slip. (For which you didn't need to show any ID). Then, vote behind a cardboard wall and re-initial that your vote had been cast. Next....you had to sit and wait for everyone to go through the process to cast their vote and then sit again to wait for the vote to be counted and result to be announced. After the announcement, it started again for the next category. In this case, it was Secretary-Treasurer. WTH?
Shouldn't the Vice-President vote come after the President? Ya think? hahaha Nope. Not sure who was calling the shots but people are not happy. And...the night only got worse.
Oh....and there was NO FOOD! They served us free tapwater. No coffee or nothing. At least until much later in the evening with all the complaints. We eventually got to share cookies that I think the President ran out and bought. One employee decided to take advantage of the situation and decided to walk around and sell some of his own Girl Guide Cookies. lol People were hungry!!
So finally, we got to the Vice-Presidential vote. One of the big votes that our office went to support. After the first vote, the third person on the ballot was eliminated. But, they had to do the voting again because the winner didn't have the majority. ??? Vote totals were 51, 29 and 28. Winner needed 54. Here is where the drama begins. The person that got eliminated stepped up to the microphone and thanked everyone for voting for her. Then, she publicly endorsed the second candidate because she's had this crazy rivalry with the guy who was leading. SMDH! Wrong Wrong Wrong!! Really and truly, the drama didn't start at the voting hall. Oh no....the drama started earlier in the day with the arrival of pricey colored flyers and emails about why people should not vote for a particular person. lol It was crazy. MUDSlinging!! But, the announcement the girl made was still shocking because it was very out of order! Sore loser. I feel bad for her. All she ended up doing was really pissing a lot of people off. I'm confident she swayed a lot of votes in the direction she didn't want just because of her stupid antics. lol That was the whisper!
Time for the second vote. Wait....how is it that there were 90 signatures and 91 votes? Something like that. Somebody is clearly up to some kind of sabotage. lol At least in the heat of the moment that was the thought. In all honesty, it's possible that somebody got a double slip because of how things were done. Hell, when I went to sign off that I was voting somebody had already signed off on my vote with their own initials. Huh? After all this.....we are down to a third vote!! This was really getting ridiculous. Throughout the night we kept losing people because it was getting just too late. People have kids. We gotta be at work in the morning. People have a life!
The two other votes are now put off because of time. Oh, and because people who couldn't vote for one category were able to vote for the delay. Made no sense but oh...they were the majority and whether they could vote or not they had to be counted. Let me tell you....wonky business!! Smh People are not happy for soo many reasons. And then the union wonders why people don't turn out for this stuff. Uh...HELLO!
Anyways....I am soo glad it's over. When in reality, it's really not over yet. Another important vote needs to be held. The one for Chief Steward. I already know how that will turn out. But i'm just sorry that we didn't get to get it over with last night. What a waste. Just wonder how and when the next vote will be handled.
The office is surely buzzing today!!
But TGIF! I gotta get my day started, as tired as I am.
Looking soooo forward to tomorrow. This is going to be a crazy busy weekend.
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