O.C. budget

[Clipper]

I didn't know that we had electrically operated robots at the 911 center. How the hell are the operators wasting electricity by sitting around in a facility that would still have to have the lights and heat on? Are they robots that have to be plugged into a wall socket to do their job?

How would you put 911 operators on piece work? Are you saying that you want operators wishing bad things to happen so they can bump the paycheck up by a buck or two? That is just plain strange and silly sounding to me. It would be like only paying the firefighters for the time that they are actually sucking smoke and squirting water. How do you propose those people feed their family, and how many people do you think will take those public sector, emergency essential jobs?

Let me understand what you propose Alan. You want people to sit in an office held to 62 degrees, freezing their asses off, while only being paid for a miniscule percentage of the time that they actually spend in the workplace, and you want them to be paid piece work. It's gonna be a bitch when there is a mass disaster and there is only one operator at the 911 center. I don't want to be the one on hold while I am having a heart attack while a single operator works their way through the blinking lights on the phone. Be real for God's sake.

Do you propose that a bus driver should only be paid a commission based on the number of people he picks up or transports? Should a teacher be paid only for the teaching that is actually absorbed and retained by the little miscreants they are forced to spend their days with presently? Should a doctor only be paid if you are cured? If so, I damn sure don't want a chronic disease that requires followup care.

Maybe if we go back to crapping in an outhouse, or simply pump the sewage into the river as we used to years ago, we can lay off the entire crew at the sewage treatment plant. I just don't want to live near the river if we do that.

There are plenty of places to cut back, but let's be realistic.

[bobbbiez]

Yeah, and leave us smokers alone.

[Clipper]

Yeah, that too. Leave bobbbiez alone. She can't help it if she is addicted and has ashtray breath, ROFLMAO! Stinky old cigarettes anyway. If we make people go to their cars to smoke, there will be a serious lapse of time for a smoke break. They do that here at our hospital, and you see nurses sitting all over the parking lot puffing away. LOL. I guess some people are just not ready to quit. Probably because they can still breathe so far, haha.

[clarencebunsen]

I will always be grateful for the movement in NY to forbid smoking in the workplace. Simple reason, it forced my son to quit. That will greatly increase the odds that he will out live me and live to see his grandchildren. I can live with any hardship that causes to the addicted.

[bobbbiez]

Everyone has their own time when and if they decide to quit whatever addiction. Can't be forced. Has to be something they want to do.

Just wish they would attack illegal drugs which includes smoking pot as much and as hard as they do smoking cigarettes which is not illegal.

[Clipper]

Sheesh! You must be getting soft in your old age Bobbbiez. I thought sure you would have some smart remark or would be ready to kick my butt.

I smoked for 45 years and I was lucky when I got ready to quit, I was really surprised how easy it was. I thought I would crave them for months afterwards and after only week or two I quit chewing the nicorette and have hardly ever had a desire to take a puff. I damn sure feel better.

[bobbbiez]

Nope, not soft just pooped.

Been very busy with the new house and hopefully all should be done soon. Hopefully before Santa comes to town. Got to fix the damn chimney. ;D

I'm gonna hit the sack now. Sweet dreams y'all!

[Clipper]

I wouldn't worry about the chimney kiddo. Santa travels by pick up truck now, and uses a two wheeled hand truck to bring the stuff inside. OSHA got on his case about making the reindeer land on steeply pitched roofs, and as Santa got older he developed a fear for high places. If you are still up when he comes, help him unload. He has a hard time since INS caught him using undocumented immigrant labor. Half the elves were deported and dropped off in Tijuana. Hopefully they will be approved for workers visas pretty soon.

He also doesn't do the cookies and milk thing anymore either. The last few years I have left him a bottle of beer and a salami sandwich and he ate every last crumb. (I did find a tums wrapper on the front lawn on Christmas morning)

[bobbbiez]

Damn Clipper, ya just blew my belief in Santa.

Geez, I hope my grandkids don't ever talk to you about Santa. They were the ones worried when I said our chimneys needed repairs and wanted them fixed before Christmas. ;D

[stoney]

I agree they should leave the smokers alone.

Yes, Clip, Jim & I have already started the thermostat war for this season. He puts it up, I put it down & open a window. He's covered up by boatloads of blankets, I'm laying there in my skivvies with the fan on. Poor guy. And here he works all day in a cold area (the meat dept.). I'm still running around barefoot with capris & tee-shirts on & probably will be all winter.

[bobbbiez]

Oct 15, 2010 11:50:14 GMT -5 @stoney said:

I agree they should leave the smokers alone.

Yes, Clip, Jim & I have already started the thermostat war for this season. He puts it up, I put it down & open a window. He's covered up by boatloads of blankets, I'm laying there in my skivvies with the fan on. Poor guy. And here he works all day in a cold area (the meat dept.). I'm still running around barefoot with capris & tee-shirts on & probably will be all winter.

Damn that sounds so familiar. ;D

[Clipper]

Well, maybe it is time to update them. Santa is still around, but he has gotten caught up in the old age and bad back thing, just like the rest of us, and OSHA is on everybody's ass if they employ others. I am surprised that the humane society wasn't on Santa's back too. He had to get something with a good heater, because his arthritis was getting unbearable and medicare wouldn't pay for Ben Gay to rub on his knees and back.

Ya might see him around town. He is driving a bright red Ford F-150, with a red fiberglass cap on the back. Sometimes he pulls a U-haul trailer. He shops at Walmart in N Utica, but he goes in plain clothes and sunglasses so nobody will recognize him. He sometimes has a "shop til ya drop" t-shirt on.

That sleigh stuff got old. The runners were worn out and it would not pass NY State inspection until he fixed the lights. People were complaining about the deer crap on their roofs, and he was tracking soot all over people's carpets when he entered via the chimney.

Just a quick update. Thought you should know, seeing as how you are putting in that change of address to Santa. He only delivers now to handicap accessible homes with the Christmas tree on the first floor. If your house isn't handicap accessible, he will leave the stuff at the front door in plastic trash bags it doesn't get wet.

[bobbbiez]

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Boy, are you on a roll. Stop picking on Santa or I'll come (with my grandkids) and dismantle your handicap ramp. ;D

[Clipper]

ROFLMAO!! ;D I don't have a handicap ramp yet. Gee, maybe I should build one. Then I could bring the lawn tractor in and change the oil in the living room while I watch Jeopardy. Hey, multitasking is a good thing. Yep, and if I park it in the bedroom, I don't have to worry about you stealing it either.

[Clipper]

Gee Stoney, if ya lived here in this house, you would have to ditch the capris and lay around in bikini panties with a fan blowing on ya. There are some things that are simply not negotiable and I am not going to lay around under a pile of blankets and freeze my tukas off for anybody, LOL. If ya get really hot, I would put a speaker on the porch so you could watch TV through the front window.