I worked for a place that would say ‘terminated for cause’ for everyone who quit because they were bitter about people leaving. I only found out because my new boss told me they hired me ‘in spite’ of my poor background.

I don’t have any experience with this union, but I have lots with other unions. There are often work change polls, seniority issues to work out along with grade changes and a bunch of other stuff before moving to external offerings. It’s a long and ridiculous process, especially if you have multiple unions working in the same group. The most I worked with was 5 unions and it took months to ‘get permission’ to hire someone externally. Hell, I wanted to move some machinery to a different building and it took me nearly a year because the union thought it was being done to ‘reduce overhead’ when I was literally just moving it to a different building to give them more room to work.

I drive by Logan every day and you wouldn't believe the amount of people I've seen stop and back up because they missed the exit. I know it's easy to miss consider there's 89374278923 signs with arrows and warnings that the airport is on the right.

My guess is They want more hires. More people mean more union members mean a larger voting block and more dues collected. Went through this a few years ago when I worked with a union who was losing members, they demanded open overtime, then complained about too much overtime then we hired more people and they complained about not enough overtime. You literally cannot win.

My old boss bought his wife a gigantic assault SUV because she kept getting into accidents and he was afraid she would get hurt. I asked him if he was afraid of the people in the other cars and he said ‘not my problem’ so.

When I was making around 3k a month several years ago I could only afford living in a janky 4 bedroom with 3 roommates and no kitchen in Dorchester. You may have a chance subletting or renting a room.

Boston is weird about California… I moved to Boston from the central coast and completely agree with you, I rarely had to wait more than a month even for a specialist but here it’s at least 6 months out.