First of all most of these posts against anything they don’t understand are by rats (or if ibew, worms). The ignorance is astounding. Don’t knock something you don’t understand as I don’t. I’ve worked with the best of the best, and the worst. You little kids need to worry about about blowing the boss, as usual, and not knocking what you or I don’t know anything about, and be respectful.
First of all most of these posts against anything they don’t understand are by rats (or if ibew, worms). The ignorance is astounding. Don’t knock something you don’t understand as I don’t. I’ve worked with the best of the best, and the worst. You little kids need to worry about about blowing the boss, as usual, and not knocking what you or I don’t know anything about, and be respectful.
If you're going to go spouting off like that, at least fill out your profile so we know if you have any credibility. Ya know, stuff like, years in the trade, years in the union, if you are in the union, where you're at, what you do.
Define "worm". What does that have to do with a lack of understanding? How do you know what they understand? At least you didn't call anybody a scab, thanks for that.
Can't say for sure due to the lack of profile, but here's my guess. He or she is a new apprentice on a decent size job who heard about the FLEs and googled it. With the dearth of online information, this sight is the most "informative" between this post and another one. That's how I stumbled upon the site when I was a third year. I just had the restraint to not post my opinion on what I "knew" before I really knew anything.
That is a highly ignorant statement. Describing other workers as RATS be they union or open shop, that shows a level of gross stupidity, that as an IBEW member makes me think of the "old days" when the IBEW took time to shoot itself in the foot by slamming open shop workers in lieu of trying to bring them into the IBEW..
The ignorance is astounding. Don’t knock something you don’t understand as I don’t. I’ve worked with the best of the best, and the worst. You little kids need to worry about blowing the boss, as usual, and not knocking what you or I don’t know anything about, and be respectful.
You have to be a 1st-year apprentice on his high horse thinking you know something, which from your post proves you do not.
Or more likely a troll as you are not smart enough to figure out how to fill in your profile and came here to just stir crap up about a topic you know nothing about.
"You don't really know unless you know" is a quote I've often heard from a retired brother. Meaning only a FLE really knows about the FLE brotherhood, everyone else is just speculating. I was trying to paraphrase that sentiment. Kinda in light of this and the other thread I have seen on here after reading all the posts in them.
I was a young journeyman, I was thrown on a job, somewhat of a shoppie, as a GF with 20 electricians and I was way in over my head.
One of the older guys, a FL&E guy worked with me on a job for a year and we got along very well.
I ended up with a scraggly crew of misfits, drinkers and travelers.
Yup, half of them took a call together and were, FL&E bros.
They had a couple of old walking wounded that needed to be taken care of but, in exchange, they helped me organize my job, made sure every layout was good and kept production up.
The PM came out and said he liked the way I was running the job and how well the job was doing.
I didnt mich know what was going on. I just ordered material and kept their time.
I didn't travel as I had young kids at home and was not interested in getting FLEed in.
Those guys are dead and gone but, I have good memory of those guys and always thought they got a bad rap due to the actions of a few bad apples.
That is a highly ignorant statement. Describing other workers as RATS be they union or open shop, that shows a level of gross stupidity, that as an IBEW member makes me think of the "old days" when the IBEW took time to shoot itself in the foot by slamming open shop workers in lieu of trying to bring them into the IBEW..
You have to be a 1st-year apprentice on his high horse thinking you know something, which from your post proves you do not.
Or more likely a troll as you are not smart enough to figure out how to fill in your profile and came here to just stir crap up about a topic you know nothing about.
FLE’s I worked with were generally very capable, knowledgeable, and could be hard workers. Just like any other generalization, some are good, some are bad.
I was not a FLE, but it seemed similar to an old Mafia move where a made guy would introduce someone to a fellow FLE kinda like this “He’s a friend of mine.” Meaning this new person is not a FLE. If he was introduced to a fellow FLE as “He’s a friend of ours.” Then it told the fellow FLE that this new person was also a FLE.
It seemed like a lot of them just did things to make sure the job was run according to the bargaining agreement and things could get squirrelly a FLE got screwed over or the agreement was not followed, at least in their opinion.
First of all most of these posts against anything they don’t understand are by rats (or if ibew, worms). The ignorance is astounding. Don’t knock something you don’t understand as I don’t. I’ve worked with the best of the best, and the worst. You little kids need to worry about about blowing the boss, as usual, and not knocking what you or I don’t know anything about, and be respectful.
Great, another new "member" that doesn't fill out their profile as per the user sign up agreement AND necroposts an 11 year old post.
We really need to start filtering before people can post here. Maybe a reading test? Maybe MANDATORY profile completion??? With todays technology, you would think that these would be possible.
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