Finally made it home last night

nancy324

nancy324

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Those of you who posted on my ranting thread last night, thank you. I finally got home last night at 9:30 after sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic for 2.5 hours. And now I'm waiting for my morning car service to come so I can do it all over again! Eeekkkk!!!

I'm usually pretty calm about this stuff, but for some reason last night I wasn't coping well. The bad head cold certainly contributed. We'll see how I cope today. I think I'm definitely taking tomorrow off. If this strike isn't over by Tuesday, I think I'll join all my fellow NYers in jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge.

I just have to add that I had an awesome cab driver last night. He was allowed to pick up as many passengers as he could, but he was concerned with my comfort, and only picked up one other guy who sat in the front who was also going to Brooklyn. The driver was giving me tissues, and the passenger, who worked at a hospital, was giving me samples of cold medications. These guys took great care of me.
New Yawkers are totally awesome.

Nancy
 
I think I'm going to publish a new diet book called the "Transit Strike Head Cold Diet". I think I've lost 3 lbs. in 3 days. :+

What about you Bunbun? I'm guessing you've lost a few lbs. too.
 
Thanks, Nancy. Glad to hear you got home safe. Stay warm and take care of yourself--it's a nasty cold that's going around.

Any weight that I might have lost by walking 8 miles a day was definitely offset by the mass quantities of food, chocolate and assorted Christmas goodies that I consumed at the office! All that walking in the cold made me really hungry. Fortunately, our CEO lives near me--yesterday his legs were hurting so much from walking to/from work that he told me to work at home if I could. I'm staying home and icing my shins.

The good news is that the two sides in the strike are apparently talking again today. Let's hope that they settle. I don't think people can take much more of this.
 
Bunbun,
I am so glad you are staying home today. And yes, let's keep our fingers crossed for settlement and plan to have a drink together to toast the end of the strike when it's finally all over!

Have a great day,
Nancy
 
Absolutely. We should do a NYC-Catheites toast to the end of the strike and the end of the season of Christmas goodies flooding the office!
 
I feel for you Nancy. It's just terrible that the city of NY is being held hostage like this. I think you should fill a thermos with a little hot toddy, if you know what I mean;-)

Michele
 
I agree with Nancy about New Yorkers. They are awesome! If there was a city that could come back from bankruptcy in the 70's, blackouts, terrorist attacks, garbage strikes, transit strikes it's NYC.

A Yankees fan in VT (where there is no transit system or garbage collection and the closest thing to a terrorist attack is "cow-tipping")

Dave
 
Woohoo!! Reuters headline: Union directs NYC subway and bus workers to go back to work.

Let's hope it's true!!
 
Well, it's true! I'm so glad for all of you who suffered because of it. Union serve a good purpose, but this was ridiculous. I hate to say this, but unions shoot themselves in the foot by demanding too much, and I can really see why a lot of jobs go overseas. It's not a political thing - it's a greed thing. I'm going to quit while I'm ahead on this.
Just Do It! :)
 
I felt obliged to answer your "quit while you're ahead" parting shot.

I don't know what the issues of the NY Transit Strike were. When a union member goes on strike he/she loses pay, in the NY strike they lost 2 days pay for every day out. Their union was paying $1M a day to be out, their elected union leaders were facing jail. Obviously whatever the issues were they were important to the union membership.

Jobs are going overseas, not because of unions, union organization comprises of maybe 15% of the workforce. Jobs move overseas because of corporate greed, look at how many companies are laying off employees, reneging on retirement plans while paying their CEOs astronomical bonuses.

I am a union member and former negotiating officer, as a government employee I cannot strike. My father was a union machinist and was on strike for about half a year (over safety issues - pre OSHA), pretty lean times for the family. His union decided that workers should come home with all their toes and fingers, let alone with their lives. Unions have served this country well, the way this country is heading back to "2 classes" (rich and everyone else) the need for unionism will come back. You think those elected officials (either party)are watching out for you?

Dave
 
You missed my point, but I'm not going to get into it any further - I should not have even brought it up, so let's just forget it.
Just Do It! :)
 
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