There Was A Time When Things Were Done Properly and Respectably. Not No More! DPW Has Gone To The Dark and Ugly Side!

 

Yesterday afternoon and this morning (Thursday) in the rain, I took pictures of each keyed padlock found on ten of our public trash receptacles in and near the 400 block of Warren Street.  Each and every one of the locks designed to secure and lock the lids was unlocked.  This failure by DPW to actually lock the padlocks after the receptacles are emptied is a new development.  (Rob Perry also has a new and much younger sanitation crew.)  As recently as a year ago, the two workers that I regularly saw emptying the trash cans each carried a key on a long chain which unlocked every padlock on every receptacle as each worker had one key for all the Master padlocks securing every one of our trash receptacles.  Those two workers have either retired or been moved to other tasks.

I figure that it saves the garbage crew at 
least 6 seconds for each receptacle they empty
that is without a locked clasp securing the lid. 
Perhaps Rob Perry decided this would
benefit his department and the city in general.
"Be more efficient," he demands. "We need to
save money!  What would President Elon do?!"

If you don't mind your $4 (or more) locks being stolen,
just leave them unlocked!  Don't fret it!  There's always 
more money to be found in the budget to replace
EASILY stolen and missing things!

Why even bothering BUYING a fucking lock or a clasp
if they aren't ever fucking locked?

 

Did Rob Perry give his new garbage crew the
okay to leave the keyed padlocks unlocked?  Or is he unaware?
Does The Slob even care?

The 10-inch hole in the middle of the lockable lid is
meant to keep people from stuffing the cans full of large 
bags of household trash.  These public trash receptacles
are only meant for small bags of dog shit and coffee cups
handled for no more than 5 minutes!  Ask Rob Perry,
he'll tell you the same thing!

The sure sign of a lazy slob constantly 
 wasting money and losing things.

How much did this one clasp cost us that isn't
doing anything worthwhile?  How much did the new 
plastic trash receptacle and lid cost us that is never locked?

Can anyone take this lock home or throw it in 
the trash can it once locked?  How much will it
COST US to replace one functioning lock
that has been stolen or "goes missing"?
How about 100 of them?

So much respect!

Locks, particular those made by Master, can
last for decades when properly locked and
maintained (oiled!). Allowing water to get inside them
by not locking them is one quick way to ruin them.

In what year of the 1980s or 1990s was accumulated 
trash and debris under this public trash receptacle at
the corner of Warren & 4th last removed?

Rob Perry and the mayor still allow the door to the stairs 
to the roof of City Hall to remain unlocked 24/7.
Is it time for an intervention for both of them?