When The Landscaping Crew Stages a Walkout
As I’ve mentioned before, I live up on a ridge. Living where the land is decidedly not flat offers challenges to maintaining parts of the public landscaping. Normal landscaping services charge a lot of money to keep such public spaces under control (it’s a lot of work to manage tall slopes of grass and blackberries), so being the good, liberal elites that we are, we hire the cheapest labor possible.
Yesterday, that labor staged a walkout, and paraded through the streets, ignoring the foreman, and damaging private property.
Unlike Anti-Fa, they didn’t hurt anyone, and they didn’t cover their faces, and they are really damn cute, so we just tracked their movements until they decided to go back to work.
Photo by evilfoo 
Your link is to a very cool video about how Disney’s Tower of Terror works. Which is awesome, but probably not what you wanted. Unless there’s some sly joke I’m not picking up on.Report
The link that went out in the email was wrong, the link in the OP is correct.Report
OTOH, the Tower of Terror video was pretty cool, so this kind of a twofer.Report
…so being the good, liberal elites that we are, we hire the cheapest labor possible.
There’s a big bait and switch there, Oscar. As a good liberal elite, I want my city to contract for services at the lowest price that is consistent with fulfilling the scope, and doing the work safely and in time. As a utilities’ executive, I apply the same criteria when hiring contractors.
As a good liberal elite, I want the government to establish adequate minimum salary and benefits across the board. I vote regularly, and only for candidates whose plank is to protect, and improve, the labor conditions. And to the extent that means I’ll pay higher taxes, or that eating at a restaurant will be more expensive, I’m game for it.
Individual city contracts are not the place where change in labor conditions needs to happen. The contracting process must be standard, predictable, and auditable. The federal Government, the city government, or the government of those geographically arbitrary entities called states are the ones that need to get on board. And they have my vote to do so
Signed, good liberal elite J_AReport
And that’s why you have so many homeless people who don’t have any blackberries to eat in the summer.
You have to think of the bigger picture.Report
Clicking the (correct) link matters…Report
All depends on which liberal elites you talk to. I know plenty who think we should be hiring Union workers to do that kind of work.Report
A boss is a boss.
This is why I generally support public employee unions even though, say, FDR opposed them.Report
I’d agree. You should be hiring unionized labor. Or at the very least labor that’s well compensated.Report
Well, a herd is a kind of a Union, right? And they are well compensated, they get to eat all the blackberries they can find on the job site.
Plus we do pay the goat herder quite well for his time and effort.Report
A park near me uses a landscaping crew from the same labour pool. I have not yet managed to get out there during their workday though.Report
Ha!
The other day I was looking out my back window and noticed a whole flock of wild turkeys hanging out in my back yard. Like 20-25 of them. I went running after them to video this, but the sunlight made it pretty much unviewable.Report
You need to be careful. Wild turkeys are a dangerously volatile combination of violent, mean, and stupid.Report
And deliciousness!
You forgot deliciousness…Report
Milk them for all they are worth.*
*And make goat cheese.Report
Speaking of antifa, when did Quilette go full Trumpist? They seem to have jumped shark from “we are liberal but anti-SJW” to writing loving pieces of Boris Johnson, calling him an ubermensch, and also basically being TrumpistReport
it is a naturally occurring, yellowish-black liquid found inside the earth surface. And it can be refined as a fuel. The consumption of petrol and diesel is increasing day-by-day as the world is developing. The rapid increase in demand of petrol and diesel leads to increase in the price of the petrol and diesel product. It is one of the most important source for economic development of the country.Report
“it is a naturally occurring, yellowish-black liquid found inside the earth surface”
oh so that’s where pee is stored!Report
If your pee is yellowish black, I’m pretty sure you have some kidney or other urinary tract problemReport
The neighborhood post, with more videos.Report
As riots go, this one is the GOAT.Report
Even the capitalist running dog joined the revolution, once it got to a critical mass.Report
As noted in the neighborhood post, the first person to notice the escape asked who to call, and so many people replied, “Goatbusters!”.
I figured after that, the puns would just keep rolling in…Report
I’m pretty sure that most seminaries and Bible colleges still teach good shepherding, so the best bet was to grab someone from the clergy.Report