OMGWTF!!! Biz threatens to raise prices if costs increase!!!!

[Skul]

I just had a conversation with the manager of Allen's Superstore, they're not real amused with this slander.

Does this DUmmy think obumble is going to provide a free lawyer?

Is this where we can tell DUmmie lbrtbell......
 

[NHSparky]

Jesus F. Christ, the bitch and her dam were whining because the utility company didn't send their trucks out in the blizzard while it was still underway?!?  And she has apparently never heard of electric-start generators???

If you could bottle ignorance like that, the ATFE would be knocking down your door for manufacturing destructive devices without a license.

 

And here's my favorite part of her rant:

She was defending the fact that the local power company had gone home for 8 hours and left entire towns without heat or power. While I realize it was a blizzard, the fact remains that the power company workers are paid to work in such conditions, AND they have heated trucks.

News to me that line crews live in their trucks while restoring power, DUmbasses.  Most of the time they're out in the shit while you huddle around the heater or fireplace.  Oh, and news for ya--as one of those "utility" workers, we LOVE this kind of shit, because it means HUGE amounts of cash.  Case in point--when I was working for SCE, there were in many service centers a "200 Club."  What is that, you may ask?  Siimple.  To join the club you had to have worked 200 hours of DOUBLE TIME in one pay period (two weeks), meaning if you were on callout for a major wind storm, earthquake, etc., you were there working 16-18-20 hours at a shot, and sleeping on a cot at the service center or in your truck.  Not going home after 8, you idiots.  And considering that you hit DT for anything over 12 until you clocked out and got at least an 8-hour break, even 4 hours of sleep at the service center was paid at DT.

Now, of course, I'm in a part of the industry which is "regulated" meaning the GOVERNMENT tells me how many hours I can work, when, etc...oh, joy. 

[Skul]

Sparky, their thought being...others pay taxes to provide for me. Others should do it regardless of the danger to their own lives.
After all, isn't that's what government is supposed to do? /s
Right back to the me, me, me, thing. That's the true primitive way.

[Kimberly]

We were talking about how hard it had been for my mom to endure the last blizzard/power outage we had. She was defending the fact that the local power company had gone home for 8 hours and left entire towns without heat or power. While I realize it was a blizzard, the fact remains that the power company workers are paid to work in such conditions, AND they have heated trucks. This nasty woman started mocking my mother and me in front of another customer, saying we were "complaining" and that it was more important for healthy men to go home, than for people like my sickly, elderly mother to be cared for.
 
Still trying to be nice, I said that we could have just gone out to the car to get warm, except we can't open the garage door with no power (you can't run a car in a closed garage). She said, "Get a generator." I reminded her that I can't start a motor with a pull-cord, as she knows because she's aware that I have an electric lawnmower for just that reason. She just shrugged and started bitching about us to the other woman in the store again

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F***. You. Says the wife of a lineman. You want men to go out into a blizzard with high winds and no visiblity and risk their lives with downed power lines because you're too stupid or lazy to solve your own problems?  Here's a clue, linemen can't repair the lines from inside their heated trucks. They're in the bucket in high winds that could tip over the truck. But I guess a dead lineman is justifiable to you because you're too cheap to buy a propane or kersene heater and take responsibility for your situation. Bitch.

[Kimberly]

And here's my favorite part of her rant:

News to me that line crews live in their trucks while restoring power, DUmbasses.  Most of the time they're out in the shit while you huddle around the heater or fireplace.  Oh, and news for ya--as one of those "utility" workers, we LOVE this kind of shit, because it means HUGE amounts of cash.  Case in point--when I was working for SCE, there were in many service centers a "200 Club."  What is that, you may ask?  Siimple.  To join the club you had to have worked 200 hours of DOUBLE TIME in one pay period (two weeks), meaning if you were on callout for a major wind storm, earthquake, etc., you were there working 16-18-20 hours at a shot, and sleeping on a cot at the service center or in your truck.  Not going home after 8, you idiots.  And considering that you hit DT for anything over 12 until you clocked out and got at least an 8-hour break, even 4 hours of sleep at the service center was paid at DT.

Now, of course, I'm in a part of the industry which is "regulated" meaning the GOVERNMENT tells me how many hours I can work, when, etc...oh, joy. 

H5 Sparky! I didn't know you were a lineman.

My husband has done a lot of those crazy shifts too. Mostly in his younger days. Now he's a troubleman. This work is very hard and most people don't realize that. He's got hip, knee and shoulder problems and while osto biflex helps, I pray he doesn't need surgery later on. This isn't a job you can do until you're 65.