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Originally Posted by legion
1) Try carrying more than a single bottle of water into McCormick Place. See what happens. There are big guys standing at every entrance, and they are not security guards.
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In 1978 I was a systems engineer for EDS and was sent to Chicago (McCormick place) to install a DEC PDP-11 for demo'ing a hospital system at the National Hospital Assoc. convention. To make a long story short, for a boy brought up on a cotton farm in N. TX dealing with the union goons (as we quickly called them but not to their face) was an eye-opening experience to say the least. You even looked like you were going to do anything involving any kind of labor and they were all over you and they weren't exactly polite about it. We had to pay union electricians to sit and watch us hook up the system as we wouldn't let them touch it (and they didn't want to)... and it went downhill from there.
the real picture dawned on me after I went to the union office to get an additional 110V outlet installed and paid a small fortune for it. Walking back to our area with the electrician he more or less told me I just didn't understandthe system, all I had to do was slip him a $20 and he would take care of any additional outlets we needed, no need to bother with the union office .