Report: NYC (union) Sanitation Supervisors Ignored Duties to Drink Alcohol During Blizzard

Fox News ^ | 1/02/11 | REUVEN BLAU and BRAD HAMILTON

[Libloather]

Report: NYC Sanitation Supervisors Ignored Duties to Drink Alcohol During Blizzard
Published January 02, 2011
New York Post

Instead of plowing, they got plowed.

A group of New York City Sanitation supervisors is under investigation for allegedly buying booze and chilling in their cozy department car for hours Monday night after the blizzard stranded a bus and three snowplows blocks away.

The city's Department of Investigation is probing the incident after witnesses said four snow blowers blew off their duties to get blitzed, buying two six-packs of beer from a Brooklyn bodega. The workers then walked five blocks to their car, which was in 20 inches of snow in the middle of 18th at McDonald avenues near the F train entrance, passing the stuck bus and idle plows on 18th Avenue between Third and Fourth streets.

The four remained in the idling sedan until morning -- then told their bosses they could do nothing about the blizzard because they had run out of gas, one witness said.

"They just sat in their car all night with the heat running," the witness said.

[Libloather]

More evidence for the lawsuit.

Click here to read more on this story from the New York Post

[Libloather]

More (union) workers catch a 'cold'

[Ole Okie]

Heck, those sanitation workers needed anti-freeze in their blood, don’t you see.

It was cold outside.

[C210N]

I’m sorry... I fail to see anything unique in the recent blizzard.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

four snow blowers blew off their duties to get blitzed, buying two six-packs of beer from a Brooklyn bodega. The workers then walked five blocks to their car, which was in 20 inches of snow in the middle of 18th at McDonald avenues near the F train entrance, passing the stuck bus and idle plows on 18th Avenue between Third and Fourth streets.

The four remained in the idling sedan until morning

Say what? Four guys got blitzed on 12 beers?

[MaryFromMichigan]

NYC Sanitation Supervisors Ignored Duties to Drink Alcohol During Blizzard

Poorly written headline.
Could have implied they had a a duty to drink alcohol during blizzard.

Nice work if you can get it...

[savedbygrace]

Maybe it was two 6 packs each????

[EGPWS]

Start with Bloomberg and work down to the union hacks.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Say what? Four guys got blitzed on 12 beers?

Absolutely, if you ever watched "Cops" you'll know that the falling down drunks they catch always have had just "a coupla beers"...

[The Comedian]

I have never ignored my duties to drink alcohol during blizzards. I consider it a sacred duty to drink alcohol during blizzards. I hope none of you shirk your duty to drink alcohol during blizzards.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Seven plus One]

Report: NYC Sanitation Supervisors Ignored Duties to Drink Alcohol During Blizzard

Three beers each all night long is pretty much just phoning it in. Mad Dog would have done the job better, and saved the city money as well.

[GeronL]

This headline makes it sound they have a duty to drink... lol

[Republic of Texas]

All of the other implications aside, I don’t see how sitting in a car all night can be fun. I’d get too bored being a Union Thug. But I like to work when I’m at work, and they probably look down on that attitude.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

It'll work out to the usual. Hundreds accused. 2-3 charged. 1 or two will lose their jobs, but keep their pensions, until they're hired by another union and then it'll be brushed under the rug until it happens again.

Unions. UGH, I HATE EM!

[jerseyrocks]

These unions need to be put into their place. I fire them all. Funny thing yesterday stopped in the local ACME food store. A lady was at the seafood counter and no one was there. After waiting for a while, she walked over to the lunchmeat counter and asked if the gentleman could help her. His response was “I’m not in the union to work that counter”. Are you kidding me? Now the unions are holding our food hostage. Do a Reagan and FIRE THEM ALL.

[Beagle8U]

“I hope none of you shirk your duty to drink alcohol during blizzards.”

I never shirk my duty, and I pratice durning nice weather to keep my skills up to date.

[Aleya2Fairlie]

And people died. Negligent homicide charges for all who ignored their duty.

[upchuck]

Given the players, I doubt this will go anywhere.

But this is hilarious:
Fox News excerpts the article from The New York Post and you excerpt the Fox News article here.

[algernonpj]

I’m sorry... I fail to see anything unique in the recent blizzard.

While there may have been a union slow down, Bloomberg went from saying nothing was remiss in the snow removal and everyone was doing an excellent job to blaming cars, blaming weather forcasters, blaming the wind, blaming those who he had said were doing an excellent job. His initial reaction was enjoy, go see a broadway play. Bloomie still insists that declaring a state of emergency would not have made any difference.

Here's how Guiliani handled a similiar storm in 1996:

"Back in 1996, a similar monster storm struck our city. It dumped 20 inches, closed airports, and left drifts 20-feet high.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani not only declared a snow emergency and ordered all nonessential vehicles off the road, he took 3,300 city buses out of service so they wouldn't block sanitation trucks and rescue vehicles.

Giuliani also asked then-Gov. George Pataki for help. Pataki dispatched 400 national guardsmen with 100 Humvees that were used as ambulances to transport medical supplies and health workers."

[TASMANIANRED]

At least they were drinking lite beer.