AmericasMart Vs Pennsylvania Convention Center — A friend of mine had a booth at a trade show at AmericasMart in Atlanta last month. She told me she had her own people set it up. She said the convention center people would have transported her display from the loading dock to her space at $25 per pallet but she had a couple of dollies in the van so she didn’t need them.
It saved her $150.
For your laugh for the day imagine that happening in Philly.
Don’t mean to be dense, bu what part of the story happening in Philly is funny? It sort of sounds like pallets being available wouldn’t happen or that a big craft show wouldn’t happen? Just found your blog on Craigslist. Thank you!
You’re not dense.
You’d have to have a familiarity with the union work rules at the Pennsylvania Convention Center to get the joke.
Thanks for finding us.
You say, “You’d have to have a familiarity with the union work rules at the Pennsylvania Convention Center to get the joke.”
Well, some of are not familiar with the union work rules.”
Care to let us in on the joke?
This story pretty much explains the joke
Negotiations between union members and their employer were at an impasse. The union denied that their workers were flagrantly abusing their contract’s sick-leave provisions.
One morning at the bargaining table, the company’s chief negotiator held aloft the morning edition of the newspaper, “This man,” he announced, “called in sick yesterday!” There, on the sports page, was a photo of the supposedly ill employee, who had just won a local golf tournament with an excellent score.
A union negotiator broke the silence in the room. “Wow,” he said. “Think of what kind of score he could have had if he hadn’t been sick!”
Now that’s a labor joke. Get it?
Yours didn’t have a punch line.
Honey Badger doesn’t give a caca.
I’m against unions as much as anyone but, you’ve never called in sick just to have a day off? Really?
Bob calls in to his job:
“Hey, boss I’m not coming to work today. I’m really sick. I got a headache, stomach ache, and my legs hurt, so I’m not coming into work.”
The boss says:
“You know Bob, I really need you today. When I feel like this I go to my wife, and tell her to give me sex. That makes me feel better, and I can go to work. You should try that.”
2 hours later Bob calls:
“Boss, I did what you said, and I feel great! I’ll be at work soon. By the way, you got nice house.”
Now that’s the kind of union benefits you only get in Philly. It comes with a high cost, but it’s worth it.