February 26, 2005
Why We Fight, Part 9
I work on the 27th floor of my building. The particular bank of elevators I use runs from 20 to 30. It was nice when I worked on the 20th floor, because every elevator was express. Now they are milk runs. Stop at every floor. Bummer.
Here's my beef: floors 22 and 23 are Housing and Urban Development. Government workers. Nearly every time I get on the elevator it either stops on 22, picks up a gummint troll and deposits them on 23, or vice versa if I'm going down. Never, ever, ever, have I seen one of these people carry work product. Maybe a cup of coffee, but that's it. They're just fucking off.
To make matters worse, there is a security guard on 22 who has been there for over a year. Apparently, some worker was threatened by an ex, so they put a guard there. For over a year. That is your tax dollars at work.
Think about that on April 15th. Screwheads.
That's why it became "Buy A Gun Day".
Posted by: zonker at February 27, 2005 11:25 AMAdditionally, government workers get 78 more "National" holidays than everyone else, including National Rutabaga Day and National Chilean-American Heritage Day.
Posted by: sugarmama at February 27, 2005 7:04 PMThis is another item you can thank terrorists for. I work in a high rise as well, and the stair doors are all locked from the outside. If you go into the stairwell your not getting back in until the first floor, and then you'll set off an alarm. After a fire that killed several people elsewhere, the doors now unlock in emergencies.
Posted by: bottlestop at February 28, 2005 11:05 AMIn 1988, in Hinesville, Liberty County, Georgia, the husband in a dvivorce case pulled out a gun in the courtroom and opened up, hitting but not killing his wife's lawyer.
Within 7 days, every courthouse in Georgia, all 159 of 'em, had a search station at the front doors complete with magnonemeter and x-ray machine. Ours in Chatham County (Savannah) is manned at all times by at least four security guards, and there are 2 more guards on other floors for a total of 6. This is in addition to the Sheriff's deputies in each of the 11 courtrooms at anywhere from 2 to 4 per.