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  1. I happen to think it does, donatella- but that doesn’t seem to be the majority opinion. Yo’re preaching to the choir here. the fact that back injuries are the biggest risk doesn’t take away from other risks and I presented examples of other things they have dealt with. Understand?

  2. Yeah, go down to HD and ask the Mexican day laborers if they wouldn’t like a nice sanit job.

    “The starting salary of a sanitation worker is $26,000 – a little more than what a beginning police officer makes. After 5 and half years of service, sanitation salaries can reach nearly $60,000.

    That may be why for the past four years… 22,000 New Yorkers have sat on a waiting list … all wanting the chance to haul trash and plow snow for the largest city in America.

    By law … the sanitation department must offer a new test every four years. That’s why the test is being offered this summer, even though about 14,000 workers still remain on the waiting list from 2003.

    Once again, the test is proving as popular as the one given to would-be police officers and fire fighters…

    The city says that’s because workers are attracted to the pay, the pension …AND the prestige.”

  3. Remember the sanit guy who died from chemical garbage someone had put out for regular pick up?

    bxgrl,

    I remember that incident, like 10 years ago.
    It was Hydrogen Flouride. Where the hell does one even get that?
    The guy breathed it in and he was doomed.
    I don’t think they ever found who threw that into the everyday trash.

  4. When i said crap job I was referring to the conditions they work under- garbage is not only smelly and gross- it’s toxic. Remember the sanit guy who died from chemical garbage someone had put out for regular pick up? And sometimes it’s heartbreaking- as when they found the body of a baby girl in the garbage. The Sanit men collected money and gave her a proper funeral and burial. I have met quite a few down at Ground Zero and I can tell you from that experience they were not given the proper respect by the city and only under protests did Bloomberg decide they could march in the closing ceremonies. Their work down there was pretty much ignored- shamefully.

  5. Solution to inmate cell phone problem:

    Direct a giant Microwave beam at the prison 24/7.

    1. Disrupts cell phone reception, as the cellphone
    signal is close to the same frequency as microwaves.

    2. Prisoners doing time will feel like their sentence has been shortened. Someone doing 5 to 10 for grand larceny will feel like they’ve only been away for 1 minute.

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