Chicagoist: City Managers to Take Unpaid Furlough

Tower18

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:41:48 -0600

Chicago is not 60% black.

matilda

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:16:06 -0600

Construction workers typically start well before nine, Albany, especially in the summer. Not sure if that is the case with the CTA--and the agency has its fair share of lazy jagoffs--but I am just saying. Perhaps you could simply go ask these workers or the apparent supervisor? Surely you are not afraid.

I_h8_toyota_and_BT

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:11:59 -0600

That said, that we are pursuing the Olympics with a $400 million hole to plug is just plain wrong. Say no to the Olympics. Stop giving this moron "mayor" money to waste and to fill his cronies pockets with. Close down the TIF's. Stop with the tit-for-tat bribes. $40 million for the CBOE to eliminate 400 jobs? another $40 million to bring in 400 new jobs to Miller? All while these companies fill the mayor's "campaign" coffers. It's all about padding the mayors retirement fund. Give the mayor $10,000 and he'll make sure you get a million in TIF money.

I_h8_toyota_and_BT

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:09:15 -0600

Wow. You really need to get a life albanyparkour. You spent your day, from 9:05 am to 4 pm, monitoring what a particular crew of brown line workers were doing? You're spending your day, presumably while you yourself should be at work, monitoring what the brown line guys are doing. I think you win the do-nothing award for today.

Navin

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:06:16 -0600

City workers blocked off several parking spaces on my block (with temporary parking signs) for a whole week and literally did one day of work to fix some kind of water problem. I don't mean that they were there and lazy either, I mean they prohibited parking for a week and didn't even *show up* but for one day to do the work. It also took a week or so for them to return and clean up the mess.

Albanyparkour

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:54:14 -0600

This is the city that sends out a 12 man crew to fix a pothole for 5 days. This is the city where I've been watching the brown line workers sitting on their asses around the cooler at 5 minutes after nine, getting started around 11ish, taking a 90 minute lunch and wrapping up the day by bolting at 4:30. This is the city where the less you do the higher your salary. This is the city of managers and department heads who can't even tell you what they do. This is the city where we'll spend millions on red light cameras and fancy new department of REVENUE vans to drain every concievable drop from the citizenry. All to avoid "raising taxes" This is the city where today they're debating spaying and neutering. Where not too long ago they banned goose liver and where jokes like Dorothy Tillman demanded reparations for slavery from the (over 60% black) city of Chicago. This is the city that does not work. Coupleof unpaid days? No worries.

Von Erich

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:52:06 -0600

Doesn't this idiot know that the term "Black Hole" is racist? But who am I to correct him? That would be like the pot calling the kettle black. "Alright, well why don't we smooth the head down to nothing, stick a pumpkin under its arm and change the nameplate to Ichabod Crane?"

herstory

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:36:32 -0600

How about a few less boulevard flower pots or new fancy bridge houses? How many days will they have to take off when the Olympics loses money (as we all know it will)? Or maybe we will have even fewer police officers than we already do? I'm just sayin'....

whirlofagirl

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:14:50 -0600

We pay the highest city taxes in the country. The mayor has the $$ to pay for that ridiculous Children's Museum move as well as campaigning for an Olympics that no one else wants. He has 25 million in the coffers for a Buckingham Fountain renovation. Feel free to add to the list, but it's basically a lot of people who earn 75k a year and perhaps only working an hour or two a day who's being asked to take some free time off. Ohhh, the outrage.

rhoswhen

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:08:01 -0600

Well MikeDL, those making 40k with kids in college can have a staycation! Yknow, it is the hip new thing to do nowadays. Sarcasm.

MikeDL

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:37:08 -0600

I agree. But what about the people making 40K with two kids in college that aspire to take a family vacation. I agree in that it's not the end of the world, but it always sucks to pay for other peoples mistakes.

mepps

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:36:33 -0600

I have a feeling that part of the problem is that sooooo many damn people in this government make over 75k.

Rob Christopher

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:25:39 -0600

I think that if you're making more than $75K a year, taking two or three unpaid days off is not going to be a big deal.