tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591881213265091346.post971588739617139752..comments2024-03-13T11:10:25.333-04:00Comments on Why The PLCB Should Be Abolished: Looking ForwardLew Brysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04084380741402026573noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591881213265091346.post-21468635281152154932009-09-17T01:32:44.786-04:002009-09-17T01:32:44.786-04:00I am a state store employee...while I know it is m...I am a state store employee...while I know it is my insurance and rent and groceries I'm ultimately talking about,I will say it.....we are suffering terribly from understaffing and underfunding and excessive over managment,an extremely expensive new software system which is a disaster and has hobbled our ability to function and serve the stampede of customers we face everyday... we are collectively ready to snap under the cluelessness and cruelty and arrogance of the Conti era and that is where the achilles heel in this diabolical system lies,how the store people and particularly the part time help,the clerks and assistant managers are treated while their union is helpless!Otherwise you can blog all you want...the votes will never happen in a place like Harrisburg where systemic corruption is a way of life and there is never enough money for fast Eddie and his boys to play with while all the rest of us are expected to sacrifice and suffer and hemmorage revenue...to work for no paycheck even...or be a state store clerk and be trampled and pummeled,insulted and mauled while breaking our backs and driving to work in blizzards,risking our lives because someone might need a pint of vodka and might be pissed if they don't get it...then being told that we must be"educated" by the state in the art of customer service... only to learn that a lucrative contract for this ridiculous idea was awarded to the husband of a regional managers company with all other bids rejected....it's called solutions 21 and it's for assholes. Oh well, thanks for letting me vent...I could write so much more but I'm only here to tell you that indentured servitude under 17th century working conditions is alive and well in the US of A... there are worse jobs I suppose....coal mining and slaughter house work comes to mind but I will end here and say this place combines the worst elements of public service and government work imaginable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591881213265091346.post-89966748434414734172009-08-04T18:40:16.022-04:002009-08-04T18:40:16.022-04:00Good job lew, I agree with you a 100%, and thanks ...Good job lew, I agree with you a 100%, and thanks for hearing me out, a friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591881213265091346.post-68340588956698358762009-08-04T17:04:04.762-04:002009-08-04T17:04:04.762-04:00Whoa whoa whoa... pay toilets on the turnpike? I t...Whoa whoa whoa... pay toilets on the turnpike? I think I see a way out of this budget stalemate...<br /><br />Thanks for the links Lew. I've hollered at my reps about this before, but I'll take a look at this stuff and get fired up again.Harry Spadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16771473518735979275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591881213265091346.post-26974318684377547842009-08-04T16:23:42.874-04:002009-08-04T16:23:42.874-04:00At least he got rid of the pay toilets on the turn...At least he got rid of the pay toilets on the turnpike!sam knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591881213265091346.post-40677026602836496242009-08-04T15:28:01.170-04:002009-08-04T15:28:01.170-04:00Didja have to bring up Shapp?Didja have to bring up Shapp?Lew Brysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04084380741402026573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-591881213265091346.post-12775093179055303882009-08-04T15:16:47.407-04:002009-08-04T15:16:47.407-04:00Ah, 1987...the last year of the second term of the...Ah, 1987...the last year of the second term of the greatest Pennsylvania governor in my lifetime, and now, 22 years later, his progressive legacy resurfaces and might finally see action!<br /><br />Lew, this is an awesome and excellent thing; a plan authorized by the very agency that would be eliminated by it. What better argument for it to move forward, since who could argue against it? Oh, wait...the current governor; a man who has taken us back beyond the Thornburgh years and planted us squarely in the uber-patronage mindset of the Shapp administration.<br /><br />That could be the biggest hurdle here...at least until the next election.sam knoreply@blogger.com