• On cheap shots On cheap shots Stan Godes can’t resist taking a cheap shot at public employee unions despite admitting that he has no information to determine their responsibility for either a current suit by a lifeguard or the
• On cheap shots
On cheap shots
Stan Godes can’t resist taking a cheap shot at public employee unions despite admitting that he has no information to determine their responsibility for either a current suit by a lifeguard or the retirement decision made by the former Police Chief (TGI 11/05/03).
I know as little as Stan Godes does about these two events cited; however, I do know that people in professions that lives depend on are regularly impacted by policy decisions made at levels several times removed from the action and without their input.
During several years as an Air Traffic Controller, I was impacted regularly by people in Washington D.C. who had no understanding of how the job was actually accomplished. This simple fact means that lifesaving professionals always face a complicated workplace. A workplace where “I was just doing what I was told” doesn’t meet the ethical standard. The simplistic, blind obedience Stan Godes writes about doesn’t exist in this workplace; not even in the military equivalent.
The very best reason to end such cheap shots is that we now know who unionized public employees are; they are the ones who were going UP the stairs in the World Trade Center on September Eleventh. Don’t you ever forget that Stan Godes. Even if you tattooed your bad attitude on your chest, when 911 is pressed in your behalf, you’ll still get the best they have to give.
Peter Antonson
Lawai
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