Meanwhile, Back at Work...

So in the three days I was on vacation to watch our country take a turn for the better, much has happened:

1. Three people have given their one to two week notice
2. Four of the six persons working in the back warehouse were laid off as we won't be doing that aspect of the business any longer
3. One person had their shift moved from 8-4:30 to 3-11 because of the non-warehouse work any longer
4. A bunch of pallets are sitting by the back warehouse door
   --we never keep pallets around--
   we don't use them
5. Two others have expressed looking for new jobs
6. Apparently, VP called all the sup's yesterday one at a time to see how long they've been with the company

Is it just me, or should I start looking for a new place of employment? Sigh. I hate job-hunting.

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I expected more of a fundie backlash as a result of the fortunate Dem take-over, as well as the Rummy dismissal, but perhaps they're all at home licking their wounded pride...

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The Jesus-folk haven't been back since our last episode, but from what the neighbor two doors down says, the revival was a smash! (Noted with a heaping tablespoon of salt.) On the same night as the finale of the "revival," there was a township meeting to determine about the public water/sewer that is supposed to begin (now) in 2009. What was determined?

1. We won't be getting water, just sewer
2. We will be paying three times as much as the surrounding townships that in recent years have gotten public sewer
3. We are being sued by the DEP to get public sewer regardless
4. No one on the board seems to know what all this means.

Rich spoke eloquently about our troubles with iron in the water, and how, if we're paying three times as much as everyone else, we could at least reasonably expect to get clean, drinkable water that won't stain everything it touches. One supervisor was sympathetic, the other five just kind of looked at all 150 of us like we were wasting their time complaining about

1. the cost ($3,000 hook-up and $900 per year)
2. the time-line (this plan apparently started back in 1994--what the hell?)
3. the atrocity of our water (apparently, most of our supervisors live in the one small town that hooks up to Lehighton on the other side of the mountain)
4. why they couldn't answer basic questions, such as
   1. When would we know if water would be included?
   2. Will blasting be required?
   3. Are they going behind the houses (letting gravity whisk away our sewage) or along the street (requiring everyone to put in a pump costing another $1,500)?
   4. Was there a bidding process to find a cheaper company to put in the sewer lines?

So instead of placating us that night, we're having another meeting on Nov. 14 to rehash all of these questions. So all of us basically wasted our evening for 3 hours to learn nothing except that we now know less than we did before. Small town politics aside, how hard is it to answer these questions? Especially if this has been in the works for 12 frickin' years now? I think the board was nervous about taking responsibility, as this was on Monday evening, and elections were the next day. I guess I'll find out on Nov. 14th if we were all as disgusted with them as I was...

But, at least nationally, it seems we were mostly on my side of things....

Catch ya's later....