Posted on 02/08/2006 9:12:54 AM PST by george76
Some Cook County employees are treating their workspaces like a pigpen -- and that's why they've got rodent problems.
That's the essence of a news release issued Tuesday by Chicago's Streets & Sanitation Department that set off a war of words with Cook County Clerk David Orr.
On Monday, the Sun-Times reported complaints from clerk employees working in the basement of the City Hall/Cook County building who said they've been seeing rats in the office.
But a surprise city inspection Tuesday turned up no sign of rats.
Instead, city officials said, they found mice feces as well as "open food" and "practically nonexistent" housekeeping by employees.
The news release suggests "the county revamp their housekeeping and pest control operations" and that employees "properly contain foodstuffs."
"The people complaining are the ones who were providing the food" to the rodents, Streets & Sanitation spokesman Matt Smith said after inspectors found a cabinet filled with unprotected foods.
While Orr doesn't deny there are mice in the lower-level office, Smith said "rats and mice don't co-exist in the same place."
Since employee complaints were first logged in January, exterminators overseen by the sheriff have set bait out for rats around the county building and Daley Center.
No rats have been spotted since last week, Orr said.
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That's interesting, I always thought Chicago city workers were rats.
Rats finding more rats.
"rats and mice don't co-exist in the same place."
How do Dems use their computers?
Feed them and they will come.
Ha!
Close enuff fer Gummint werk.
Those Rats have no self respect.
Rats can not use their mouse.
It is so confusing.
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