[usaguedriedax]

Well, they probably weren't expecting a blizzard due to all the global warming.

Anyhoo, if this is true, it doesn't matter, you can't fire them anyway. Union rules, ya know...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/b...IEevDILBvlYAtK

Sanit bigs boozed amid snow chaos: witnesses

By REUVEN BLAU and BRAD HAMILTON

Last Updated: 9:19 AM, January 2, 2011

Posted: 2:10 AM, January 2, 2011

Instead of plowing, they got plowed.

A group of on-duty Sanitation supervisors is under investigation for allegedly buying booze and chilling in their cozy department car for hours Monday night after the blizzard stranded a bus and three snowplows blocks away.

The city Department of Investigation is probing the incident after witnesses said four snow blowers blew off their duties to get blitzed, buying two six-packs of beer from a Brooklyn bodega. The workers then walked five blocks to their car, which was in 20 inches of snow in the middle of 18th at McDonald avenues near the F train entrance, passing the stuck bus and idle plows on 18th Avenue between Third and Fourth streets.

The four remained in the idling sedan until morning -- then told their bosses they could do nothing about the blizzard because they had run out of gas, one witness said.

"They just sat in their car all night with the heat running," the witness said.

Customers who saw the group buying beer at the Ocean Mini Mart at 3917 18th Ave. in Kensington shouted at the workers.

[GaxyGroordrep]

Four grown men aren't going to get blitzed on 12 beers unless it's the first beer they've ever had. Maybe a 20-minute buzz if they pound them frat-style and haven't eaten anything all day.

[nuabuncarnigo]

Really? You wanna offer up that as a defense for these so called "Public servants"? Public service unions are a cancer on this country and must be obliterated before they completely destroy this country.