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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 630455" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>One of the biggest challenges of being a steward is to remember that you wear more than one hat.</p><p> </p><p>I am on friendly terms with many of the management people I work for. I will come into the office and chat with them, make jokes etc. But when its time to represent a member, I have to take that "friend" hat off and put the "steward" hat on because the relationship is now by definition adversarial. And once the meeting is over and the business has been resolved...I have to take that "steward" hat back off again because when I leave the gate and get to my first stop in the morning, I have to be wearing my "professional employee" hat. The customers I deal with do <em>not</em> need to know about any labor issues that are occuring in the office, they just need a professional to provide them the service they are paying for.</p><p> </p><p>Friends are friends, the contract is the contract, and business is business. Its important to keep them seperate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 630455, member: 14668"] One of the biggest challenges of being a steward is to remember that you wear more than one hat. I am on friendly terms with many of the management people I work for. I will come into the office and chat with them, make jokes etc. But when its time to represent a member, I have to take that "friend" hat off and put the "steward" hat on because the relationship is now by definition adversarial. And once the meeting is over and the business has been resolved...I have to take that "steward" hat back off again because when I leave the gate and get to my first stop in the morning, I have to be wearing my "professional employee" hat. The customers I deal with do [I]not[/I] need to know about any labor issues that are occuring in the office, they just need a professional to provide them the service they are paying for. Friends are friends, the contract is the contract, and business is business. Its important to keep them seperate. [/QUOTE]
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