Guess he shoulda zigged when he shoulda zagged

but the stop sign survived!

I was at Auburn Walmart last night. The stop signs all have red flashing lights highlighting them now.

Am I losing my mind? That one is a completely different parking lot...? There's a dark building with a bunch of windows in front of the pole - the one in this post doesn't have that.

Are there two of these?

Unions are good if they have a legitimate need. My paternal grandfather was union (he actually helped organize) down in Philly where he worked for the Budd plant making trolleys and train cars back in the 40's-60's. When he died 1 1/2 hours before he was due to retire at 62 (cancer) his union stepped in and made Budd honor his full pension so my grandmother would have support. The company was gonna be like "Hey, he died before retirement so you're SOOL, lady."

When they're out of touch with the locals though...

My *other* grandfather was a trucker, working for a small company near Philly (North Penn Transfer). The company hit hard times, so ownership stepped in and said "Hey, the only way we can survive is if you guys take a pay cut until we can hopefully turn things around. Can you vote on it and get back to us? The only alternative is we'd have to shut down operations."

So the employees voted and agreed to the paycut... until word was sent up the chain of command to the union HQ who said it would set a bad precedent and blocked it.

Company basically said WELP and shut down and everyone lost their jobs as a result.

Its most definitely NOT a black and white issue.

In a Ranger 🙄

From my own union experiences, this is probably the biggest over-simplification that anti-union propagandists put out there. At both UFCW and USW, termination for performance was not uncommon. Is it harder than non-unionized? Probably so, in most cases. But I’ve never seen why that’s a bad thing.

It’s true. Now whenever anyone attempts to hit the pole they’ll do damage to their own vehicle versus Walmart needing to replace this pole every five days.

Caribou, Maine driving instructor: okay, take a left at the stop sign and now we’ll head down to Auburn, ME to do the Ballard parking lot test. 😂

Where do I sign up

Omg I just hate people sometimes.

I had the opportunity to visit the Auburn Walmart a couple of days ago and was somehow irrationally worried one of these poles would jump out in front of my car. Imagine my surprise to find they are wildly tall and have bright blinking stop signs on top of them, and these concrete barriers. They are far from invisible.

I’m not at all surprised. The quality of driving in the Lewiston/Auburn area has become something else.

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Sadly that didn't take long at all

I should park my car there. Need the insurance money

Barriers were too short! He could not see them being seated up so high.

People are doing it on purpose now. 😂

Been around the world and found That only stupid people are breeding The cretins cloning and feeding

The story that keeps on giving.

Came back to say this! Also happy cake day!

When will drivers concentrate on their right hand turns?

😂😂 it's been less than a week!

This ^ for all of you out there who default to unions are the best because the political party I like says so. Some pros and cons from my own experience as a due paying member for 8 years at a shipping company.

Some Pros: Guaranteed raises albeit very small each year with a larger cost of living adjustment every 5 years or so. Better medical and dental benefits than what you would otherwise have. Your seniority means something, everything actually.

Some cons: That lazy sob gets paid just as much or maybe more than you if they are more senior. Many people will take the “I’m paid by the hour” approach and the culture where you work will suffer. They will even get mad at you for working too fast. This will impact your mood regularly and you’ll have confrontations about this with some regularity. These people are very difficult to fire.

When do they decide to just remove the pole?