’14 people to move a 12 lb log 30 feet’
BPR- Government agencies were raked over the coals after a video went viral showing the federal response to hurricane relief efforts.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency were mocked and criticized by social media users after a video posted by CBP boasted about federal government agents working to help Americans impacted by Hurricane Milton.
“Along with our partners at @FEMA, we will continue with disaster recovery as a result of Hurricane Milton. The safety of the American people is our top priority,” the post read.
But it was the accompanying video of workers clearing out logs that set off social media as X users blasted the government’s inefficiency and wastefulness. more here
It’s the DMV all the way down!
Well, government is a big slow dumb insturment, so that it takes 14 x $80,000/yr = 1.12 M$ to do something a 10 year old boy could do is about right.
They only used 14 people? The other 20 must have been on coffee break!
that is a waste of human and natural resources, as well as taxpayers money.
that piece of wood would contribute to heating someone’s home, if it was stacked and seasoned, rather than thrown in a brush pile. They’ll probably consider it trash and bury it in a landfill.
The only thing the government does well is come after you.
The first job that I had when I moved to Portland, Oregon in the fall of 1971 was working for the Columbia County road dept. in Scappoose, Ore. about 30-35 miles NW of Portland. With an absolutely drop dead gorgeous view of Mt. St. Helens on clear days from across the Columbia River and nearby the PGE atomic power plant. I worked for them for approximately a month, and I can tell you that indeed there is a lot of featherbedding in working for road depts. I got paid for a full day’s work once when it was raining like hell like it normally does in NW Oregon for sitting in a county dump truck doing nothing with another employee, so what else is new. It was about an hr. commute from where I lived on a houseboat on the Multnomah Slough straight across from Sauvie Island in far NW Portland which I drove M-F in my 55 Chevy station wagon. I worked there until I got a better job closer in Portland working for the Meier & Frank dept. store as a union janitor for $2.71 an hr.
My grandma got me my first “real” job. At 16 I was a summer intern for the FCC in Long Beach CA. In 1978, I worked in the office that policed CB radio communications.
Most of my job was working on this gigantic binder. There were several inter-departmental envelopes that had replacement pages for this binder. I was to take the old page out and replace it with the new page.
There were several times I replaced the same pages. When I asked about it, was told basically, we know it is stupid, but replace those pages.
What an absolute waste of time and opened my eyes to how stupid, and soul-crushing, a bureaucracy is.
I did have some fun at the office! We caught some drug smugglers using CB radios in the harbor. My boss asked if I wanted to transcribe the communications. He did warn me that there “could be” some bad words.
He didn’t need to worry, I knew all the words and how to spell them!
they all could have grabbed a piece and moved 14 logs in the same amount of time
Not a speck of dirt or sweat on them, either. 🙄
Government at all levels is has become so focused, as opposed to result focused that nothing gets done efficiently. It’s all about the process. It’s about equity and inclusion and graphics and glossy color pictures and three hundred page studies that are impossible to implement.
“Ya bettah thank a union membah, ah say ah say…”
1) It was a photo op using a dozen people who could’ve been elsewhere… They stopped doing this the second after the video ended
2) There were already hundreds of volunteers out there doing this kind of grunt work already
3) These useless fucks are supposed to be coordinating this kind of work instead of pretending they’re doing it
I have to be the devil’s advocate and show you efficiency in action with a general patrol officer trying to do his job… HEH, HEH, HEH!
https://x.com/LarryDJonesJr/status/1847759084050579741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1847759084050579741%7Ctwgr%5Ee32099e3f5dc418b5b8a65c652b4ffc6fe2fb4f6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fillinoiscarry.com%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcoremodule%3Dsystemcontroller%3Dembedurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FLarryDJonesJr%2Fstatus%2F1847759084050579741
Yep! I could see this happening…
Nobody will be fired, as Shakespeare said, this is a tempest in a teapot!
Mous, that was hilarious!
When soylent Catman asked his not-boyfriend “What should we do?” I’m fair certain that squawking noise was ginned up by his pea-nads when the elevator precipitously shot them up two floors and hit the upper stop buffer!
IATS
TWD
I’m all for the “bucket-brigade” type of efficiency, but this sure ain’t an example of it.
Oh, God, “roasted” via the internet!! How many were fired?? other than a low level sacrificial nobody or two ?
‘“Along with our partners at @FEMA, we will continue with disaster recovery as a result of Hurricane Milton. The safety of the American people is our top priority,” the post read.’
…stacking logs. Thats nice.
Now lets talk about what the situation ACTUALLY looks like…
“The enormous amount of damage has made it hard to even estimate losses and impacts; so much land has affected, new loss is being accounted for as debris removal continues, and it has only just started. “We’ve lost most of our corn and soybeans, 300 acres of corn and right at 200 acres of beans” Gilbert said. “Pasture is a mess from silt being deposited on it, there’s muddy grass, all kinds of trash and garbage. We have one field that’s got eight or nine houses, camps, and campers in it. (There are) a couple of tractors, all kinds of trees, motorcycles, boat motors, lawnmowers, four-wheelers — and none of it’s ours.”
-Citizen TRIBUNE, Vol.59 No.32, Morristown TN, Oct. 19-20. https://www.citizentribune.com/
…so sure, yeah, toss a couple of logs to your hundreds of co-workers in your cute li’l clean windbreakers.
That’ll help.