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Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2004 - 4:30 p.m. Ever since the �others� took over the statehouse, they have been sending �consultants� into/ to do jobs formerly done by in-house people. I know this is a fine way to pay back big campaign contributors (guess what the governor of �No more business as usual!� got caught last week putting a couple of BIG campaign contributors onto high-paying, little work jobs on a board. Hypocrites, all of them!). If not, then I can�t come up with a good reason to pay these people to do redundant tasks. Oh yeah, I can think of one thing- for the (unintentional) humor they bring into our daily lives! Case in point: About 2 months ago, a couple of guys showed up one day (unannounced). They were there to check out our safety compliance (even thought they weren�t from any government agency), and to help�show us ways we could improve the workplace safety of our storage� (their words). Last week, they finally got around to sending their recommendation list to Beavis. Some of the things they told us we had to do (so much for it just being �recommendations�) even cracked Beavis up. Consider the fact that he is one of those lifetime employees who do whatever they are told to do, no questions asked, and you get an idea of how silly some of the things are. I started working on the items I can change today. Most are minor things (move barrels around so that the labels are easier to read, consolidate all of the far-flung plow blades lying around the yard). But one is just plain government stoooopidity: Stencil about anything that isn�t clearly labeled by the products manufacturer. Gasoline mixture in plastic 1 gallon cans? Good idea. All waste containers (including the tiny ones in the offices)? Stoooopid! Since that one cracked me up, I did it first. Now, each and every garbage receptacle has 3� white spray-painted letters, stating the content of each container is �trash�. I even labeled all 4 sides of dumpster in the back lot as �trash� Wouldn�t want someone to mistake the thing for a boat, and try to take it out on Lake Mohall� Wait- it gets better! We have what amounts to 2/3rds of what was once an old emulsion (HFE) storage tank standing on one end in the back lot. The other 1/3rd was cut off of one end with a welding torch. They even cut a rectangular section out of the side to make a door. Needless for me to point out, there is no way you could store any liquid inside of this tank. Well, maybe if the liquid was contained in 5-gallon jugs or something. The tank itself won�t be holding liquids anymore. Why do we still have this tank/ storage unit? To keep our filled sandbags out of the rain, making them last longer and lighter to handle for the workers. Good use for what would have been scrap metal, no?. Anyway�that is all that is inside of this tank. Not good enough for the �consultants�. Since it was once used as a tank, the contents of this tank has to be labeled in 3� stenciled letters, clearly visible from the outside. Now that the tank is useless for liquid storage, they said it had to be labeled (are you ready for this?): EMPTY! I guess the sandbags don�t count? I hope that the two �consultants� parents (yes, they were both very young- maybe still college age?) donated a bunch of money to Little Big Man�s political party. If not, the party didn�t get much of a return on their parent�s payoff�
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