INC NEWS - Solid Waste Director leaving

[kjj1 at duke.edu]

Randy:

I'm not sure what the trash guys get paid, but perhaps part of their 
resistance lies in the fact quoted in news coverage: "The guys who hang off 
the back of the garbage trucks are among the lowest paid of city 
workers...." You try hanging out there for 40 hours in, say, January or 
August, and then see if you're still so comfortable with your sermon on 
work ethic.

Kelly Jarrett

--On Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:47 PM -0400 RW Pickle <randy at 27beverly.com> 
wrote:

> It has come to me from 3 sources now that our new Solid Waste Director,
> the fellow I just applauded for what he was trying to do, is leaving/has
> left. Fired one source says, resigned another, and yet another unknown.
>
> If this happens because trash doesn't get picked up one day, the next time
> it happens I expect the runs on the ladder to start getting shorter as
> well from those that are left in charge. There is just no excuse for this.
> Someone needs to respond to why an innovative thought like "work 40 hours
> get paid for 40 hours" doesn't make sense. I did hear that in an act of
> dissent, a group of 15 or so workers in trucks with horns blasting, played
> parking lot rodeo in the Administration parking lot the other day. I say
> send them to the house and get some people in there who will get the job
> done. Regardless. Not temps, not contractors, but workers who believe that
> they should be paid for what they do, not what they don't.
>
> Here two of us citizens (Ken and myself) who both thought his actions were
> well placed. Perhaps those left in the wake of this shocker can explain.
> Not just some story to make us feel better, but tell us what happened that
> caused a man who I labeled as "Action" to leave. Are we just stuck with
> doing the same old stuff?
>
> RWP
> 27 Beverly
>
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