Julio X Rivera "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance or stupidity"

Gee, I never had a job where I could post to facebook while I was supposed to be working! How do I get me one of them there jobs? I'm jealous.

For some unfathomable reason, the quote reminded me of a story I heard a while back. It seems that for a short period in 2007, ATU Local 1001 held a series of breakfast "get to know your union" meetings. 

The story I was told, and have no reason to doubt because I know the person to be quite truthful, is that Mr. Rivera hosted the meeting and opened with a statement along the lines of  I have $500,000 in the bank and if I don't hear what I want to hear, I'll take the money and leave the country.

I can accept it was meant as a joke but I'll say it wasn't funny and it was in extremely poor taste, particularly since ATU 1755 already had it's President under indictment (or perhaps already convicted) and ATU International Trustees running the local.