December 22, 2005
TWU says they will go back to work
"We wake up at 3 and 4 in the morning to move the trains in this town," Toussaint said. "That's not the behavior of thugs and selfish people."
No, that's the behaviour of people DOING THEIR FUCKING JOBS. My job entails that I stay up until at least 2am, then sometimes have to get up to go to work on six hours of sleep. I'm expected to be happy, alert, aware, and moving fast. Do I bitch about my wages? Sure. Do I strike to get better ones? Nope. I understand that it's my job and that I'm going to get paid based on how hard I work.
It's when you shut down this city for your own purposes that you become a selfish, thuggish person holding the city hostage for money.
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December 20, 2005
More Strike News
Over at the TWU's blog they have comments activated.
Stupid.
Anonymous said...I hope the strikers realize that besides the fact that they screw (and really there is no other word for what they are doing) with the money of the people who were worse off then the transit workers were to begin with, they are actually endangering other New Yorkers lives in this weather?
Everybody will know in a few hours what you actually make. And what you make is a lot comparing to majority of New Yorkers. Your strike is hurting financially the people with daily wages, people who usually have no medical insurance, no pension plans, who usually have to take mass transit because they don't make enough money to afford anything else (and who definitely make less then TWU workers). Luckily, some of them are making your sandwiches. So, I am hoping the TWU strikers will find some spit in theirs and some piss in the beer they drink between picketing duty.
More importantly shouldn't the strikers be charged in criminal court for endangering peoples' lives? My worst fear is to hear that some elderly person collapsed in this cold trying to walk to where they needed to get. People (and medical staff for that matter) will have hard time getting to the hospitals. Even if it's not an emergency, have you thought about people who need to get dyalisis or radiation treatments?
YOU WORK FOR PUBLIC. AND RIGHT NOW YOU ARE TRYING TO MURDER QUITE A FEW OF US!
Ouch.
In other news, I seem to have picked up a bug. Nasty little cold virus.
On top of that, I would have to blow more than half my tips from last night on a cab just to get to and from work tonight. I made shit tips for working 13 hours, and I think it's time to move on. I really need to be bartending. Nearly half my tips last night came from a table of three men who just kept drinking.
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Posted by Kat at 12:16 PM | Comments (5) | TrackBack
There goes that extra revenue everyone was talking about at Thanksgiving
Strike.
What an ugly thing for the TWU to do to this city at Christmas.
Fuckers. I hope they all get fired and Bloomberg brings in new people.
Oh what a hardship, to have to work until you're 62. Hey, assholes, most of the rest of us have to work till we're 65. You can deal with an extra couple of years of sitting on your ass and driving buses.
Now I'm really pissed.
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October 07, 2005
I'm highly disturbed - again
The MSM is all over this terrorism threat, but the blogosphere seems to be ignoring it.
I'd like to know what my fellow bloggers think, but no one (except Michele) has anything, even a mention.
Seriously. The first credible threat against the NYC subway system, and no one says anything?
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October 06, 2005
I am SO freaked out right now
I am NOT taking the subway this weekend.
A NYPD source told FOX News that the threat involved 19 suitcase bombs to be placed in the subway system.
This is just terrifying, for the threat to be that specific. So of course Bloomberg (who took an extra FIFTEEN minutes to start the news conference) had to say:
"This is the first time we have had a threat with this level of specificity."
Oh yeah. Subways are off my list for the weekend. Anyone wanna come up to Harlem and hang out here? Cabs are expensive.
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August 05, 2005
Plane grounded
Watching CNN right now, and they have a story about a grounded plane in Houston.
Southwest Airlines flight 21 made an emergency landing after a threatening note was found.
I reserve judgement as to whether or not the note was found, or the product of a disturbed mind.
This is happening a lot lately, and I'm a bit worried that schedules are being disrupted for nothing. We are dealing with Penn Station being shut down for a day, planes grounded, and other "minor" inconveniences that add up to a disruption of our lives.
And as we all say, if we let the terrorists fuck with our lives, the terrorists win.
Side note...Google Earth really kicks ass.
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August 02, 2005
Stupid things on the train
I was on the train this morning, when an announcement came on, reminding us that there would be random searches.
Now, I'm not in favor of the searches. I think they're going to be badly implemented, rely on a disgusting level of profiling, and end up causing more arrests for drugs than for bombs.
But I also understand that it was the City, working with the MTA, that implemented these searches. Bush had nothing to do with it. The fourth amendment is being violated by the MTA, not the Federal Government.
Which reminds me...I need to go check my NationState.
I'm in Youthtopia.
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July 25, 2005
More NYC disruption
Bomb Scare Causes Confusion Near Brooklyn Borough Hall
I swear, Jason is right about the officials here being spooked by something we don't know about.
Combine that with someone I was emailing back and forth saying this was "going to be a long, crazy summer. And not in a good way."
Yikes.
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