Jackson Jambalaya

That’s strange… they mentioned work and Jackson Public Works in the same article. It just doesn’t “work”. It DID at one time but it doesn’t now because “We” don’t operate the City that many of us were once proud of.

You've GOT to be kidding? With Pay?

When things are going badly, you should work more, not less.

When your ox is in the ditch, you should work more, not less.

When every house is on fire, does the fire department leave early?

Do bomb making, ship building, and military equipment plants put in more hours now compared to the 12 months after Pearl Harbor?

Do farmers work more in January or during harvest season?

Does the city of Buffalo run the salt trucks more during January or July?

In other words, why are they closing early when they have problems and it should be all hands on deck? Explain to me.

Wait until they celebrate National Cities Week. The whole City will close.

No comments are necessary on this one. Let's just leave it right there.

But really, what's the difference whether they are open or closed?

WTF? A half-day off for the slackers?

Question: If one has a no-show position in Jackistan's Public Works Dept. do they still get the afternoon off?

Do they also get time off for the fake made-up holiday Kwanzaa? Yes, it was invented as a joke.

If that is time off with pay is that something they can do without a confirming vote by the City Council?

I veto this!

Jackson gonna Jackson.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
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Is this the place a person goes to py their bill before it's an unpaid bill?

If so, should the employees be celebrating?

Errbody can go watch them lay that pipe!

If the mayor tells the wole accounting department to take a few months off then accounts receivable won't increase and he can declare Mission Accomplished!?

They have been leaving at noon all week because the air conditioning hasn't been working properly.

Its just the appearance of not working.

National Sewer day/week/month/year(s) an ongoing celebration in Jackson.

"Wait until they celebrate National Cities Week. The whole City will close."

One can hope.

Flowood, Pearl, Brandon, and Richland Public Works, were all working today and those cities are in excellent shape!

Who would notice? It's always the perception of "working" city employees, right?

Most of us know this is not going to end well…keep that powder dry my friends!

Great!!! That means they got all the potholes patched!!!

If the office is closed then you know the guys in the field need equal time off…I hope no one had a meter leak or emergency shut off needed. I wonder how this would be viewed by a court if pressed in a liability suit…..oh yeah it would probably be a Hinds County Court. Never mind.

Who are the lawyers representing businesses in this huge water bill disputes?

The Empty Suit Mayor approved this.

Awhile back, I actually drove to Metrocenter to pay my water bill because none of the payment options listed on the bill worked and my payment would’ve been late if I mailed to f’ing Memphis. So I tell the clerk that I tried “pay-by-phone” and “pay online” multiple times and kept getting an error message. She literally looked around at the 1-2 other clerks and they all laughed and rolled their eyes. She said, “those options haven’t worked for years.” How can $60,000,000.00 not buy a few nerds to devise basic phone & online payment systems or else simply remove those options from the bill so that it accurately reflects that water payments must be mailed or delivered to one of the various shithole locations in Jackson via pothole-ridden, impassable streets?

P.S. Phone payment option has been restored. It only took 6 years. The $3.50 extra for paymentus pisses me off to no end. And why do payment by mail go to Memphis?

Anyone who's ever worked in a bureaucracy knows that when the fit is hitting the shan, you find every opportunity to go to lunch, vacation (reportedly planned), or sick leave. Let everyone calm down before you return, and then show up like you had no idea what's been happening. It's how you survive.

I live in northeast Jackson only 200 yards from Madison co. I have a medical practice elective cases generally. I called ridgeland and flowood and none of there public works dept were aware of a holiday.

Here's an idea: To celebrate National Public Works week, every employee should come to work every day. Be there by 7:30 a.m. and go to work. Take only a half hour for lunch and actually eat your lunch. Stay until 5:30 p.m. to insure that customers are helped. Have a good attitude and smile.

P.S. I'm not from this planet...just passing through.

Y'ALL BE DISRESPECTING THESE SUPERHEROS

APWA is proud to announce the theme "Ready & Resilient" for the 2022 National Public Works Week poster. Within every public works professional lies a superhero, which is dramatically represented in this year's poster. Public works professionals are always READY to serve their communities and RESILIENT as ever in their abilities to pick themselves up off the ground after encountering challenges.

The "Ready & Resilient" theme highlights the ability of these professionals to perform regular public works duties and be ready at a moment's notice to react as first responders during natural disasters and overcome trials seen in the field.

Public works superheroes help keep communities strong by providing an infrastructure of services in transportation, water, wastewater and stormwater treatment, public buildings and spaces, parks and grounds, emergency management and first response, solid waste, and right-of-way management. They are what make our communities great places to live and work. So join us in celebrating these superheroes!

Some thinly veiled racism in this thread

10:28, is it racism to think a person should show up for work and actually work?

This was not legal. State law only allows a certain number of holidays and only on certain days. If the Mayor approved this, he should have to pay back the city for the cost of salaries , benefits etc paid out for those days not worked. Of course, elected officials are seldom held accountable, only employees seem to get punished.

Does Shad have a Holiday Abuse Bureau?

Some thinly veiled racism in this thread.

And a thick spread of apologia on your part.

5/12 at 10:28 Of course there's racism on this thread. Everything is racist, all the time. You're racist. I'm racist. We're all one big happy racist family!

Does that assuage your white guilt?