Seriously, I work as a salt truck/snow plow operator, and I am good at my job.
Overtime it snows, I have to listen to a barrage of snow removal shamings. It is wrong, presumptuous, and down right rude.
Even if you don’t like the snow removal standards in this city, you have no right to pass judgement on my work while you sit on the couch stuffing your face with Storm Chips and salsa —not a bus driver, so GFYS!
This article appears in Jan 7-13, 2016.
There are some of us who do know……
For example, on Bently why did the plow continue to bottleneck the street with out calling a tow truck to remove the cars?
SLACK ASS EFFORT
How hard is it to clear the bike lanes properly?
So we’re just suppose to accept sub-par work? Would you accept sub-par work from your barber, doctor, lawyer, contractor, etc? You took the job, so do it right.
When I’ve just finished shovelling and the plow comes by and fills my driveway in with hard, heavy and a-bitch-to-remove compacted snow and ice, it is difficult to be happy about this. As a small, health compromised woman removing the “plow gift” can take hours and cause untold levels of agony for an already painful condition.
Realistically, the plow is not to blame, winter is. I hate winter.
OMG! you are so boring. you get upset when a snow plow comes after you are done shoveling. Tell me something I haven’t heard before.
Ever since the city contracted out the work it’s been shitty. The city used to Make it’s snow plow drivers plow to 6 inches from the curb. If it was more than that they would have to go over it again. So why can’t the contracted out plow drivers go by the same rules? The first snowfall this year saw the same old shit happening, snow left between 2 to 4 feet from the curb. Good thing all that rain came and took care of the remnants because we would be at 5 or 6 feet from the curb.
You have my wholehearted support, Mr. Plow. I’d love to see the critics try to do what you do for as long a shift as you do. They’d rethink their position then! So easy to bitch, too hard to be patient.
And you seem to think by your ending that it’s all right to treat bus drivers the way you don’t want to be treated? Fuck you asshole and plow to 6 inches from the curb. Go cry to your mommy.
“OMG! you are so boring. you get upset when a snow plow comes after you are done shoveling. Tell me something I haven’t heard before.”
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OMG! Picking on the disabled! You are so brave. I fail to see where “difficult to be happy” equals getting “upset.” Bracing one’s self to endure more mind-numbing pain to unshovel the plow leavings after 2 hours of shoveling is more accurately described as depressing but what do you know?
Not the plow driver’s fault. He or she are just doing their job. It is winter that is detestable. Or didn’t you read that part of my original post?
OMG! Just because I’m sitting on my arse doing nothing does not mean I’m picking on the disabled. You are trying to shame me.
As long as I can walk my kid safely around the city I’ll be happy. Spent way to much time inside last winter due to road and sidewalk conditions.
And has anyone noticed how the city is not putting rebar poles anymore to mark the curbs? I guess they figure they can save that money now that they don’t need to put them there any longer because the plow drivers go NOWHERE NEAR the curbs.
Whoever plows our cul-de-sac has absolutely no idea what a circle is…. nor any idea where the curb is. . Never heard of a square circle although I am no geometry teacher