Snowpocalypse!
It has snowed more in DC than Minneapolis so far this winter - by almost 20 inches! Even stranger, even more than Buffalo, New York, and they get like 90 inches some years. And a big portion of the snow fell in the last five days. This city is just not equipped for that kind of snowfall. Not enough trucks, not enough salt, not enough employees. And, quite frankly, not enough experience - I could relay some of the antics of the latinos cleaning the walks around my apartment complex, but is it really their fault? They grew up in the tropics!
I mean whatever, I got snowed in for like a million days (well, six) and it was fine because I like to sit around and eat incessantly and this way I could do it without guilt or interruption. But I did get irritated about one thing and it wasn't the lack of snowplows. What bothers me is everyone carrying on about how the federal government loses $100 million every day they shut down because of lost productivity.
Um, are they kidding me? As if ANYONE who works for the federal government is so productive that that much money is lost when they can't make it into the office. Everyone knows 90% of them do next to nothing except blame other people when work doesn't get done. It's the lazy person's dream to be a direct hire because it's almost impossible to get fired, no matter what you do - or don't do. So cut the crap about how much money the government is losing when federal workers can't make it in. If anything, they're saving money on utilities for all those buildings.
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Speaking of the antics of the snow plowers in my apartment complex, guess whose car got rammed into by one of them over the weekend? Pretty excited about that.
UGH!
I am commenting on my own post yet again because I'm a winner like that, but I was reading this and it made me remember a news report I heard a couple months after snowpocalypse.
They said that the telecommuting that was required during the storm actually ended up saving the government money because people weren't using the buildings but work was still getting done. Basically the exact OPPOSITE of what the news outlets were saying during the storm. I'm really getting sick of the sensationalist news crap, trying to get people all riled up about stuff they don't even know is true. And that was mild compared to the shows that deliberately lean left or right politically. News is starting to become pure trash, it takes a fricken researcher to get any kind of real truth on an issue.
Sorry, I just totally went off, but people hollering about stuff they're not even sure is true and treating it like gospel (which itself is sensationalized stories, so even that saying has a different meaning than it should) is the antithesis of intelligent discourse or real reporting. And it makes me very crabby.