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07-14-2005, 03:47 PM
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Hire the local homeless?
We just got a call from a representative of the local chamber
regarding restoration of a public lake. She said the volunteers
aren't getting it done and the parks dept. and town are doing
everything they can to clean, maintain etc..
She wanted to know if we would hire a dozen local homeless
people, put them on our payroll and they have to have
workmen's comp. Then go to the lake 3 days a week and
clean the perimeter of litter, debris, fallen branches etc.
Now that's not to much to ask is it? LOL
As much as we'd love to help and have offered our landscape
skills, It's just not possible. If people weren't such slobs
none of this would be necessary. I would love to see a crackdown with very stiff fines for littering and illegal dumping.
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07-14-2005, 04:03 PM
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Let the park department hire the homeless and supply all of the necessary insurance and supervision.
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07-14-2005, 05:47 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by dan deutekom
Let the park department hire the homeless and supply all of the necessary insurance and supervision.
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What Dan said.
They want you to take on all the liability for people for whom you have no say in screening? Uh, that'd be a big no.
Make them a counteroffer - you provide consultation (supervision), they do the paying and the workers comp. |
07-14-2005, 06:10 PM
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LOL
That is awefully nice of the town to offer you to pay for workmans comp for a dozen drunks.........OK, ok. Not all are drunks.
What I am wondering is...............why do they need workmans comp to begin with?...............They gonna get a bag, a stick with the nail on the end of it......so they won't have to bend picking up papers.
Maybe they will miss and jab the nail in their foot?.........so they can go get medical and collect workmans comp while the go through therapy and 4 months of recovery..........Yeah that sounds like a plan
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07-14-2005, 08:05 PM
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Since over half the homeless choose to be that way (my brother is a homeless dope head who had every opportunity I have had) anyone who hires them for this purpose would be asking for trouble.
How bout making people collecting welfare who are vcapable of working get their rear ends out there and do it, and you can be paid to supervise and run paper? If they want a welfare check, or any type of state aid, they need to go to work...Tommy Thompson got that right!
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07-14-2005, 10:34 PM
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Tell the chamber to give you the homeless peoples phone # and you will give them a call for an interview!
Oh but wait they just want you to get them on the books so you have to fire them and pay unemployment so they arnt eligeble for welfare???
Why dont they tell the dopes to bring them a bag of trash from the park and then they can earn the handout food?(THEIR ALREADY FEEDING THEM RIGHT?)
I feel sorry for the homeless, some regular people I know are just a paycheck away from it. (scarry)
Am I being iggyd yet?:P
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Last edited by Bamboo : 07-14-2005 at 10:38 PM.
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07-14-2005, 11:55 PM
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Seems like your local chamber is not in touch with the realities of business????
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07-15-2005, 01:09 AM
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Welfare?
If you believe that stills exists, I gotta windmill you can fight...
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07-17-2005, 07:42 AM
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Hire the homeless?....mmmmm....nope.
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