response 89 of 119:

Jan 30 11:59 UTC 2006

found out that the reason the hotel wants to keep us evfen though we 
are taking up a lot of their rooms is that we are a lot cheaper than 
hiring the police for security, particularly during mardi gras.

the police have a starting salary of $24,000 a year or their abouts.  
Not a lot.  On the other hand, they get a premium working as security 
guards.  $45 an hour base with a minimum 3 hours.  $85 an hour for 
anything with alcohol being served and a minimum of 4 hours for 2 
officers.  For things like weddings.  For Mardi Gras, they get $106 an 
hour, minimum 4 hours.

Police are also selling T-shirts now with a reference to Ray nagins 
chocolate city statement.  It has an NOPD logo on the breast, and a 
large logo with the words Chocolate city Police on the back and in big 
letters " We're Bitter".  They come in chocolate color of course.

I bought two.

I have a report that I am looking into that some of the guys down here 
were hired even though they failed the drug screen.  Also reports of 
people smoking weed in the rooms.

we had someone get drunk and vomit in one room.  He didn't clean it 
up.  He followed it up by pissing on the wall.  To drunk for his own 
good, or that of his room mates.  Also, one guy in that room has had 
$600 come up missing.

also, last week we had 3 guys come in and set up in their room, then go 
to work.  While they were at work, 3 more guys were moved into their 
room, tossed their stuff into a corner, and even put one guys stuff out 
in the hall.  The guys who had their stuff tossed quit, and the other 
three were fired.

This is just more proof that many of these guys have no respect for 
other peoples stuff.  These guys are all young by the way that are 
abusing other peoples stuff.  We had one guy the other day walk thru 
the lobby in uniform with his pants sagging to his knees.  real 
professional looking.  NOT!

Another kid tried to get me to give him keys to the vans.  I managed by 
default of position to become the Keymaster for the vans.  He said he 
needed the keys to go to the drug store to get calamine for a rash.  I 
didn't see a rash, and by his attitude I think he was going after 
something to self medicate.  I mean, the Walgreens is just 4 blocks 
away, easy walking distance.  I told him he had to get a managers 
permission to take a van, not mine.

No one ever collects unemployment from this company either, I hear.  
They won't fire you after 90 days.
They won't lay you off.
They just won't have any work for you in Michigan.

Talked to a guy who worked for Wakenhut international before he took a 
job with CSS.  They were paying $18 an hour with 44 hours of OT.  and 
$300 per diem besides.  They lost the contract to a company that 
underbid them (like ours does) and he came to work for us.  he was 
making $2208 base pay plus only two to a room, and a rental car at 
their disposal.

so it appears the cost of security is dropping.  I understand their are 
companies that do this disaster thing on a regular basis, paying high 
wages for short periods.  I can make more in 4 months than I do working 
year round at that rate.  I am looking into it.  it woud require 
working in rough conditions such as earthquakes and tornadoes and 
hurricane aftermath, and maybe big events where they need people for a 
short time ( think superbowl).

we had an incident at my old site with one of he trailers.  They were 
getting it hitched to a contractors truck to get pulled to a site, and 
when the ready crew went into the trailer to secure it, it exploded.  
Two of the work crew injured and the trailer destroyed.

What is scary is they do not think it was propane from the tanks, but 
rather fumes from the glue used in the manufacture of the trailer.  
This may very well slow down trailer deliveries because they are unsafe.

response 91 of 119:

Jan 30 18:25 UTC 2006

Tod, didnt you know that "bru" stands for BRUtha?

response 93 of 119:

Jan 30 18:50 UTC 2006

re #91
*snort*

response 95 of 119:

Jan 31 18:28 UTC 2006

Yes, I don't want a chocolate city police t-shirt.

response 97 of 119:

Feb 1 15:10 UTC 2006

I think I am going to get a shirt that says "I dont live in NOLA but if 
I did, I would have survived the hurricane becuase I am rich and white" 

Luckily I am fat enough to get that all to fit on a t-shirt. 

response 99 of 119:

Feb 1 16:59 UTC 2006

I was thinking a t-shirt like:

I looted NOLA and all I got was this lousy t-shirt

response 101 of 119:

Feb 1 17:40 UTC 2006

 "My cronies looted the levee construction money and all I got was
  this lousy Armani T-Shirt."

response 103 of 119:

Feb 1 18:13 UTC 2006

lol!

DONUT FOR YOU!!!

response 105 of 119:

Feb 1 19:08 UTC 2006

"NORY CLUB" 

(New Orleans Relocated Yankees Club)
That's in honor of Cary, NC (concentrated area of relocated yankees)

response 107 of 119:

Feb 2 06:43 UTC 2006

It's Reconstruction all over again!

response 109 of 119:

Feb 2 16:12 UTC 2006

Are you carrying a carpet bag, bru?

response 111 of 119:

Feb 4 13:33 UTC 2006

I couldn't find any carpet bags, so I took luggage.

response 113 of 119:

Feb 23 02:17 UTC 2006

yeah dude, if you handcuff folks down there
it tends to give them a boner.   be warned.