It's really a pleasure to see all the long grass and wildflowers in the park, now that the park workers are on strike.
Looking for places to offload your trash is a good way to become familiar with Vancouver lanes, now that the garbage workers are on strike.
Used booksellers are having a business boom, now that the librarians are on strike.
No city workers' vehicles clogging up traffic, or tearing up the paths in the park with their tires.
No noise and carbon emissions from leaf-blowers and huge gas-powered mowing machines in the parks, either.
No garbage pickup means more time to look over the trash around the bins to see if you want anything. Binners can sleep in.
Less garbage and recycling truck noise. Easier for everybody to sleep in.
Privately employed landscapers don't have to look enviously at guys with better-paid (and less-supervised) city landscaping jobs.
Food banks and panhandlers can look for more sympathy and gifts from city workers when they start getting paid again - "it could be me" will become "it was me."
Banks can look forward to collecting a lot of interest on city workers' built-up credit card debt.
The dogs in the neighbourhood get such a thrill when they smell a rat.
Women who used to sell blow-jobs to guys in city trucks stopped just off Broadway on their way to work now have more time to enjoy the sunshine.
Hey, things are great - don't settle it!
(Just kidding!)
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Fun commentary on the strike.
ReplyDeleteThe longer this third strike in 10 years lasts, the more resourceful people are going to get!
It looks like the cities managing staff are doing a fairly good job keeping things clean and doing what the local 15 folk do for a living; they must be busy given their lesser numbers. I have a question though....when the local 15 workers are back doing what they do, what are the managers doing to earn their salaries?
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