hurricane relief work..PAY ME!

[Chum]

Reading the prosecution reports from TRAC, there's not too many contractors feeling the wrath of the law. Most got away with it - whether well intentioned or not. It was mostly a top-down scheme that connected anyone with friends inside FEMA or state agencies that pretty much said: "come and get it". They apparently did, on the expense of residents, taxpayers, and subs.

Not a whole lot different that the slaughterhouses who used forklifts to feed downed cows into the grinder, then on to school luch programs nationwide. They knew it too. It got them their 60K pickups and a Beamer for the Mrs. This "right" to pretension because of the end-products offered isn't unlike a junkie doing anything for his fix.

I'm just like you, trying to find the good things recovered from the ills, and the "humbling" of America that's forced insead of chosen, well it might be a good thing overall.

Storm work from my standpoint will be determined by empathy for either friends in deep trouble, or people truely affected...not the opportunity for quick riches with little work involved, like the co-ops who send crews or the individuals who still host a modicum of humanity. The Bush years are over.

 

[see_lucas]

honestly i'm sorry to say my first 5 months in the tree industry were working for a guy who was just like this. i was a newbie ground man and he sucked the living daylights out of me. working 7days a week and doing grounds, phones, flyers (bogus), and organizing the other idiots. lucky for me the only thing i learned from the guy was how to spot another just like him.

sorry bout your luck with this guy, i hope it bites him back

 

[bowlegs]

Katrina was a different storm experience for me. I don't know where y'all are getting all this mushy stuff. I hit NOLA shortly after the storm. We had no power, no water, no restroom facilities. It was 30 miles to ice and you had to stand in line to get any, if any was left by the time you got there. Dead people, dead animals, stinking mold, and rotting everything. After a month or so they let some of the natives back so they could cry about houses that had been under 8 foot of water for a month. I got to throw families entire histories into dump trailers and watch it go to a dump. I got to be shot at, stabbed at, cussed at, and disrespected in any number of ways. Oh, I don't want to forget what a joy it is to work for the corp of engineers. So after awhile you get a little sensitive about pay, it's hard, thankless work. I was home 7 days in 2 and 1/2 years. The only thing I didn't find was quick riches--y'all talk like it was like picking up nuggets of gold on the streets and in the trees-give me a break! Getting paid is not to much to ask for. Some of y'all need to get out more.

 

[NeTree]

Sorry to hear ya got ripped off.

If it makes you feel any better, the deadbeat I subbed for in the Kentucky ice storm hasn't paid me, either- Sepe Tree out of Rhode Island.