Posted on 04/19/2010 7:18:22 PM PDT by 10Ring
It has been nearly two decades since New Yorkers faced their last doorman strike, but as the deadline for a new contract for building workers approached, the questions being posed throughout the city remained largely unchanged on Sunday.
Who will safeguard my apartment as I sleep? Greet my children when they come home from school? Accept deliveries? Clean the hallways? Sort the mail? Operate the elevator? And who, for goodness sake, will let the cleaning lady in?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Good post. Jerry the doorman. Was not this one with the soiled sofa?
Socialism requires inefficiency. Ever heard of “Job-sharing” as an employment gimmick?
You will.
It’s not about somebody merely opening a door for you, it’s about keeping the riff raff, burglars and salespeople people out of your building, accepting packages for you and stoppng unwanted people from knocking on your door. They get you a taxi too.
It’s NYC. It’s different.
You would think that the NYT would avoid using someone with elitist, nepotism roots (ie. son of the current publisher) to write a story that surely doesn't give anyone of middle-class stature anything to cry about. Honestly one of the mostly blindly self-serving articles, class-wise, that I have seen in recent years.
Nj state law. You can’t pump your own gas.”
In the “olden days” no one pumped their own gas - laws had nothing to do with it and there wasn’t an extra per gallon charge for a long time. They also checked your oil, put air in your tires and washed your windows. Great place for high school and college kids to work. Owners were on a first name basis, sponsored ball teams, towed your car out of the snow and really gave great service. Women particularly loved the service.
It’s really bad when there is an attendant in a country bar doing the same thing. It’s not like they are the bathrooms at Nordstrom’s.
Best bathrooms are at Buc-ee’s rest stops in Texas.
Speaking as someone who has had a doorman in the past, and currently lacks one, they are at they best when they serve as a “bouncer” to throw out homeless interlopers, annoying salesmen, and Chinese restaurant menu distribution agents. The latter is a particular pet peeve of mine as everytime I get home from work, there must be 10 menus dumped at my door!
That's all fine and dandy. You want to pay for it then go ahead. It's the union aspect that, as always, goes against the grain of choice, introspection, pay-commensurate-to-ability, etc.
In the end folks in Queens aren't crying their hearts out.
Miss context much?
Seinfeld, not just a show about nothing. :)
Try getting a package delivered without a doorman.
Doormen. Now THERE is a group that needs a union. (argh)
That's one of the very crass things I despise about my visits to Europe. Some old bag sitting across from the urinals and holding the paper towels hostage. Usually at the big movie theaters.
In 1991 I was offered a position at Bellcore in New Jersey. It would have been an opportunity to get a MSCS at Rutgers or CMU on the company nickel. All I had to do was agree to moving to New Jersey from San Diego. No thanks. A couple visits was sufficient to convince me that I had no interest.
“Yoko! Dammit, aim at Yoko!”
One night, I was having dinner in a fairly nice restaurant.
Went to the restroom and there was an black attendant passing out paper towels, had an assortment condoms, and common colognes available as well.
I’m off in a corner minding my own business when another black restaurant patron walks in, sees the attendant and started to berate him for doing such a demeaning job.
The attendant laughs and said in effect, “Brother, I work five hours a night, three days a week and bring home $80,000 dollars a year - in tax free cash handing out paper towels and condoms to rich white folk. And the restaurant provides the paper towels!”
Left the other black guy kind of speachless.
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