Translated to English: "Dammit! I missed my ride on the Disability-go-round, and now they're making me WORK instead of staying home and pulling in those sweet, sweet checks!"
Actually, that's quite a come-down for the big guy.
I'll bet Marta's pissed, and rummaging around for the rolling-pin right now.
The big guy was making anything circa $49,000-$55,000 a year at the sewer plant, and now he's in something that starts out at $34,000 a year, it seems. Probably he gets a little more than that because he's been a burden on the payroll of the city of Omaha for so long, but whatever the big guy's making appears to be quite a cut.