add this to the other crap:
It was a real snow job.
Between 660 and 720 Sanitation workers called in sick for the cleanup of last week's blizzard -- more than double the usual rate, The Post has learned.
About 11 to 12 percent of the Sanitation Department's 6,000-strong force didn't show up for work on Monday or Tuesday, city officials confirmed, as 20 inches of snow brought the Apple to a near-standstill.
My answer: "Let's see a doctor's appointment. Or a prescription. Oh, don't have one? Next time this happens you don't get sick pay." Something along those lines.
I spent four years as a dispatcher for a LE agency, then a bunch more years in another division of said agency in a 24/7 office. It was shift work, and the rule for bad weather was simple: "You are considered essential personnel, so you have to be here. Roads are icy or snow-covered? All state government offices closed? Doesn't matter; you have to be here to keep this section running." And, with rare exceptions, we all did.
So this 'slowdown' bullshit in NYE'C gets absolutely no sympathy from me(even discounting the injuries and death it contributed to), and the "I'm not coming in, I'm sick" when they're not bullshit none. As in "People ought to be fired for this bullshit." Not only are they causing actual harm to people- well, hell, for that alone screw 'em.
Oh, and what do these clowns get paid in overtime? We didn't get a damned penny extra, just comp time(whenever it would be possible to take it).
So fire the bastards who set this up, and prosecute the bastards where possible.
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