I know that not everyone feels the same way, and to those people, I am truly sorry. However, I’ve lost 10 pounds with all the walking I’ve had to do and I’ve saved the $70 I would have otherwise blown on a bus pass for this month. I hope these striking asshats are getting by on your $50 per day strike pay. Must be real difference from the $30+ an hour they make when they work. Here’s hoping you can’t make the mortgage payment/car payment/credit card payments you over paid twatwaffles! —Enjoying the Walk
This article appears in Feb 16-22, 2012.
I agree with you, OB. It’s good to find the positives in what would otherwise be a negative situation.
I’ve gotten a lot more exercise in these last 2 weeks and when the transit strike finally ends, I won’t be using the loser cruiser nearly as often as before.
another one under false impressions. it isn’t the idea of the drivers to strike, it was numbnuts wilson, and his holier than thou atitude.
I’m curious if the union or the drivers or however it plays within thought maybe the city would just cave and give it all over. Wasn’t the offer get a bigger raise and give up the scheduling or take a smaller raise and keep the scheduling, and the Union balked at both? From what it looks like is they want the cake and eat it too.
The Drivers are not victims of the union. They are a brotherhood/sisterhood of one. It is crazy to think otherwise.
Nice optimistic Bitch!
Wp
Whatever motivation you use to get in shape is a good one. Good on you. Take care of yourself.
I just had lunch with my mom and she said the same thing! She has shed 10 pounds and is looking great.
katt, now that was a very inspired post, by what i don’t know. i would suggest that you take 2 green, 3 purple, and a little yellow happy pills.
( thank you, thx-1138)
Yesterday the strikers received their last pay check. HRM staff pay is handed out 2 weeks after a pay period ends. The day they walked out paychecks were already in their bank account and by union logic a short strike of 7 – 10 days was no big deal.
In addition their contract allows them to defer a portion of the earnings to a future date so you can be sure most of them had done so to ensure cash coming into the bank did not stop. The contract requires the deferred earnings to be paid by then end of HRM fiscal year which is march 31.
Now we all know why they walked out in February. Hope they stay out until the Easter Bunny shows up.
It is so disheartening that a group of financial challenge people like HRM can be so negative and pessimistic about a group of average workers ( no rocket scientists, or retail workers) that has to go on strike over an average wage ( if you don’t beleive me, look it up on the Statistics Canada website.)
I agree with the OB but I also think he’s an idiot!
well dam my post is gone and it felt so good, and you, (life sucks),, u should see me with out my pills xo, i still think the poster is a douchebag
I do a 45 min. walk home from work every nite..even -25 ..feel great..cheap exercise 🙂
i dunno katt, that rant was over the top, even for moi. but we all have our love/hate of transhit, and i guess that was yours? without your pills, okay, would i have to wear body armor and carry a shotgun too?
I’m so buying a moped come march. As soon as the thaw fully sets in, metro transit can suck my balls as i zoom off into the sunset.
i’ve seen some around this month, the roads are pretty good. good, as in not ice-covered, the big bumps and holes are perpetual, what with the freeze/thaw cycles
Its not 30 dollars an hour its 24 dollars an hour and its not 50 dollars a day strike pay its 150 dollars a week strike pay and to boot the first 2 weeks of striking we dont get paid for we only start getting strike pay the 3rd week oh and 1 more thing, we dont want to be on strike the city wanted us on strike. get your fucking facts strait bitches!!!
Ella, please consider buying a bicycle or a car…or both.
Here’s your solution to the daily commute!
http://halifax.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-bi…
my oh my, bmf…very pleased to see you
Hullo paingirl, all right? I move away for a couple years, and all hell breaks out on the buses!
I’ll tell you what Halifax needs – a monorail!
…or else, what do you think about motorized bicycles? Cool, eh?
Sail past the drivers AND city council – thumb our nose at ’em all!
good to see you, back in the fold. i have missed your witty wily ways