Hey tax payers, these three guys working, and I use that term very loosely, ripped you off last week. Big time.
That's right tax payers, these three lollygagging city workers spent last week doing virtually nothing. All the while taking your hard-earned tax dollars. Who was supervising these three rip-off artists?
And they said the 'Paid to do Nothing' program ended. Well tax payer's, they're dead wrong. It was alive and well at Chase and Sheridan last week.
Where's the Chicago Sun-Times when you need them?
After seeing these guys set-up shop on Friday, September 7th, I knew something was going to be amiss. I knew this project was going to be a long one. So I decided to keep track of exactly how long it would take to fix a measly little pothole.
I was right folks. This project took a very long time. And I thought I'd share it with you.
Watch the series of video's this week, starting with this one. Watch as these workers spend their days lounging around in Rogers Park... Reading the newspaper... Doing crossword puzzles... Talking on their cel phones.... Visiting the beach.... Fighting with each other.... Hanging out on the bus bench.... Taking naps and a whole lot more. Except doing any working mind you.
We'll have more tomorrow, as we secretly recorded over 30 hours of this boring, but important video footage of city workers not working when they should be. City workers not giving 100%.
The tax payers got seriously screwed and Joe Moore did nothing about it.
00:01: Oh, that's nice.
00:07: It's 10:39 a.m.
00:39: Worker sitting. Worker on cell phone.
00:40: Worker explaining something unrelated to other worker.
00:55:And there's nothing going on in the hole.
1:14: Let's see what's going on with these guys ... nothing. Workers sitting on and leaning on the equipment trailer Nobody's working on the hole ... nobody. Third worker appears (a.k.a. sunglasses), zooming in on sewer project that 9 is left unattended. Now this guy wearing the red bandana just came from the beach.
3:12: Sunglasses worker reaches for the sky in a big sleepy stretch and yawn.
3:41: Sunglasses guy shrugs his shoulders while in a conversation like he either doesn't know, or doesn't care.
Today's further footage: Sunglasses guy play-fights with the other workers while on the job, if that's what you want to call it.
BLOGNOTES: This project wouldn't have been able to be completed without major assistance from a loyal reader who offered his time to help out. All video footage and editing provided by local blogger Bill Morton. Thanks to Bill for his tireless undercover work.
14 comments:
Seriously, you have 30 HOURS of this? Thirty hours straight? Have you offered this footage to the news outlets, especially television stations? Dave Sabini or Pam Zekman (spellings of last names are probably incorrect) come immediately to mind but I think they both work for Chanel 2. Anyway, HAVE you offered the tapes to the television stations? If so, what was their response?
As always, thanks for doing this. I really hope something comes of this.
- PEACE -
They will just come up with a lame excuse. We were waiting on material to be delivered, a bricklayer or carpenter to be assigned, or they were waiting for it to rain so they could go home anyway. This is a city-wide problem, not just a ward issue. Who is to blame, the boss, whose name is Richard Daley. He is too busy riding bikes in Paris. Maybe we all should get used to bikes for he has neglected the CTA for so long, that all the forty year old trains might fall off the tracks. Not to mention all the broken down buses littering Lake Shore drive on a daily, or shall I say a "Daley Basis".
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Waiting for materials or other workmen wouldn't cut it. Craig, have you tried submitting this to the investigative reporters around town? By the way, this goes for the stills and video of the fellas with that green van too.
- PEACE -
Fargo, I've forwarded this to the print media, IG and the Water Dept. downtown and the alderman's office . Still waiting for a response back.
With Joe being the king of the whistle-blower ordinance, you'd figure he'd be all over this?
This happens all the time. It's not confined to Joe Moores ward. It is how things are done here in Chicago. A few years ago they replaced the curbs on my street. My street is only two blocks long. It took them 2 WEEKS to do the job. The average day went something like this. Arrive on the job site around 8:00. Stand around, evaluate the site for an hour or so. Do a little work for an hour or so and then stand around some more until lunch. Then go to lunch for a couple of hours and come back. Stand around some more and wait for the cement truck Pour some cement, stand around some more and then head in around 2:30 or so. EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR TWO WEEKS! I imagine if you talked to one of their spokesmen, he would say that they were waiting for the cement truck. Fine, but how about doing some work while they are waiting for that cement truck. A private construction company could have completed this job in a couple of days. How do I know you ask? Because thats what I used to do while going to school.The funny thing is that because I was watching them work (or not work) as I'm interested in construction, they made sure they did the curbs in front of my home last. They did both my neighbors, skipped me and then came back to my house the last day they were there. Apparently one of my neighbors beefed about the lack of productivity on their part and because I was always watching them they must have thought it was me. I however could have cared less. They weren't hurting me in the least. I simply put my Jeep in 4 wheel drive and drove right over the job site when I needed to leave my home via my driveway.
Streets and San and the Water Dept.are the biggest wastes of money that I can think of. Thats where the mayor sends all his patronage workers. Thats why you see all these guys standing around doing nothing. They are political hacks who couldn't keep a job in the real world. They will go out when it's election time and drum up votes for whoever the Machine decides they want in power. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much graft, theft and corruption in this city that it is almost beyond belief. All aided and abetted by the democraptic machine that runs things in this city and county. So if you enjoy seeing all this, then make sure you vote for guys like Daley, Stroger and his kind. Oh,did I mention the county? Thats a topic for another thread.
Linked you up, Craig. Freekin brilliant.
I remember investigative news covering the inefficiency of city work in the past. Are city workers unionized? I think it isn't so much lazy workers as it is those that delegate the work. Maybe there aren't enough projects to be done - maybe a glut of workers on down time, but when a crisis hits -like the recent rain storms, having a glut of workers becomes handy. I could never do city work as I'd feel guilty getting tax payer money to stand around idle. Should we make fire fighters do work when there are no fires to put out?
I remember investigative news covering the inefficiency of city work in the past. Are city workers unionized? I think it isn't so much lazy workers as it is those that delegate the work. Maybe there aren't enough projects to be done - maybe a glut of workers on down time, but when a crisis hits -like the recent rain storms, having a glut of workers becomes handy. I could never do city work as I'd feel guilty getting tax payer money to stand around idle. Should we make fire fighters do work when there are no fires to put out?
I remember investigative news covering the inefficiency of city work in the past. Are city workers unionized? I think it isn't so much lazy workers as it is those that delegate the work. Maybe there aren't enough projects to be done - maybe a glut of workers on down time, but when a crisis hits -like the recent rain storms, having a glut of workers becomes handy. I could never do city work as I'd feel guilty getting tax payer money to stand around idle. Should we make fire fighters do work when there are no fires to put out?
Firefighters do, do work when they are not putting out fires, you fucking idiot. These guys are the problem. We waste money paying for all of their hours of non-work, while the rest of the city falls apart. Wake the fuck up.
Maybe they just need hugs and pats on the back for showing up.
prattpangs, the fact is they were standing steps away from the hole. WORK WAS NEEDED RIGHT THEN AND THERE! What more do they need? They were dressed properly for the occasion. The equipment was there. The need was there. Hell, they even had a freakin' audience. What the @*%*!? were they waiting for? Mayor Daley to personally come by and give 'em an "Atta boy!"? Oh, I get it - they knew the film was rolling but no one said, ACTION!" yet. Right?
Two weeks? You got off easy, Big Daddy. When I lived in Roscoe Village, it took the construction crews from mid-June until after Thanksgiving to install some new sewer pipes on our one-block stretch of Bell between Roscoe and School. Five frickin' months of dug-up streets and parking restrictions and not much of any work going on most days. Oh, and they left their lunch trash and cigarette butts all over the parkways. It was five years ago, and it still gets me all riled up.
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