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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1872296" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>You've taken a fair first step at being self-critical. Now you just need to fix it. </p><p></p><p>Upstate did highlight on one of the worst things about being a BA (or an active steward) and that's telling someone they've lost their job and there's nothing you can do about it. This isn't having a conversation over a warning letter for methods (which isn't fun either), I'm talking about positive drug tests, bringing narcotics into the facility, serious workplace violence cases with multiple witnesses, proven dishonesty (with tape), etc. I've had to have that conversation more times than I care to count and it sucks. </p><p></p><p>If you're not the type of person (or if you can't grow into being that type of person) that can tell someone how it is despite them flipping out/crying/etc, then that's definitely not a career path for you. A lot of people think being a steward/BA/local president/etc. is just about flipping over desks and yelling at managers to make them do what you want. Sure, you can do all of that but the person you're representing is still sitting out of work at the end of the day depending on the merits of the case.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1872296, member: 42270"] You've taken a fair first step at being self-critical. Now you just need to fix it. Upstate did highlight on one of the worst things about being a BA (or an active steward) and that's telling someone they've lost their job and there's nothing you can do about it. This isn't having a conversation over a warning letter for methods (which isn't fun either), I'm talking about positive drug tests, bringing narcotics into the facility, serious workplace violence cases with multiple witnesses, proven dishonesty (with tape), etc. I've had to have that conversation more times than I care to count and it sucks. If you're not the type of person (or if you can't grow into being that type of person) that can tell someone how it is despite them flipping out/crying/etc, then that's definitely not a career path for you. A lot of people think being a steward/BA/local president/etc. is just about flipping over desks and yelling at managers to make them do what you want. Sure, you can do all of that but the person you're representing is still sitting out of work at the end of the day depending on the merits of the case. [/QUOTE]
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