The WHATEVER WHATEVER Superintendent Slob Making over $117,000 A Year!

During DPW Superintendent Rob Perry's DPW report at the July 8th, 2024, informal council meeting, while he was far away from City Hall, he showed the council and the public a sideways picture of the new service window that his department had recently installed in the newly created Code Enforcement Offices on the west side of the Firestation on Washington Street.  He then explained the sideways picture as best he could (not apologizing for it, of course!) while council members and the public had their heads turned to one of their shoulders:  "We also completed the reach through, or the pass through, or whatever they call it, at Code Enforcement.  They still have to do some painting or whatever, but basically we're almost done with that."  Then he moved on to his next issue and picture (it was upright!). 

(Two sentences, each including a "whatever"! This may be a "whatever" record for any City Hall official!)

Don't you love the thought process, logic, sentence structure, the seemingly intentional confusing words and ideas, as well as the art of persuasion of Our Great Communicator On Zoom?  The job is "completed," then "they still have to do" some work, then "basically we're almost done with that."  All stated in less than ten seconds!  What the fuck is he trying to convey, if anything?  Is the job done or not, Mr. Mealymouth, and is the painting really the final effort that needs to be made?  

Is our $117,000 DPW Superintendent not able to straighten his pictures out for the council and the public to view properly to easily make heads or tails of, or is he simply uninterested in doing so?  Does he deliberately offer sideways pictures that he only offers with incoherent and contradictory nonsense explanations of those sideways pictures?  "What the hell is he saying and what the hell is that a picture of?" wonders every council member and member of the public in attendance with their heads no longer upright and with puzzled looks on all of their faces.  Sideways pictures with sideways talk to boot from Our Great Communicator All The Time On Zoom!  Hooray for us!  How did we get so lucky?!  Do we deserve such a high level of professionalism and straight, no-nonsense, respectful talk and guidance?

Perry's picture, offered to the council while 
he was not in City Hall.  Notice that the number 
7 on the right is upright!  He knew the picture 
was sideways but did nothing about it!  "Screw
these jerks on the council, I don't care if they
have no idea what I am talking about!"

My picture (notice painted wall)

Painting of the wall was soon completed, but by any reasonable person's standards, DPW is far from "done with that" CEO service window 7 months after Perry said "basically we're done with" the window (or whatever the window is called and whatever idea he meant to convey...). But, unless you are a slob with no sense of aesthetics, professionalism and responsibility, the work on that service whatever window is not "BASICALLY" unfinished, it is CERTAINLY UNFINISHED.

The following pictures of DPW's "completed" service window (or "whatever they call it") were taken earlier this week while no one was present at the CEO offices and there was no note explaining when and if someone might be returning that day.

Still basically completed 7 months later?

One of several pictures that Rob Perry has
not offered to the council in 7 months.  You 
think he intends to revisit his "whatever" window,
or is work "basically completed"?

Unparalleled professionalism!

Why fill a screw hole with filler, sand it and 
cover it with paint so no one can see it?

WHATEVER INDEED!!!!!!  That wood screw
can't be hidden with filler and paint or stain because
it was not completely screwed into the wood. 
This is known as shit "whatever" work,
typical of amateurs who should be concerned
with other matters!

Would this be acceptable in City Hall?
I'm afraid so!

Over 7 months later, does DPW "still have 
work to do" or are they still "basically almost
done," whatever the fuck that even means?

Doesn't this beg the question:  Where else does 
our DPW cut corners, do work that professionals
should be hired to do, fail to finish their work and
leave us with ugly shit?

Was this part of Perry's plans for the CEO 
service window all along -- unfinished and 
basically ugly woodwork appropriate for a
bankrupt and lost cause of a city?

One wonders if in the past 7 months Code Enforcement has requested that the master carpenters at DPW return to finish their job on the whatever window that the DPW boss is certain was "completed," "still have to do some painting or whatever," and are still "almost done" with whatever.
I will say it again: Rob Perry is paid over $117,000 a year to be an incommunicative slob at all times on whatever he touches. When mentioned on HUDseen from now on, Perry will occasionally be referred to as "our whatever slob." There can be no disputing that this moniker is accurate and appropriate, can there be?

HUDseen will not refer to Perry as a pathological liar, but it certainly is a distinct possibility that he is one. Either our whatever slob lied to the council and the public by talking to us sideways about the whatever window being "completed," or he had no idea what he was talking about, perhaps relying on information passed to him from his wood-working master carpenter.  Which do you suppose it was?  Hell, Perry took the picture of the service whatever window himself, didn't he?  Seven months ago, he saw all the ugly, unfinished woodwork needing attention, didn't he?

Or could he not make heads or tails of his own sideways picture as well???