Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Snow day...Oh wait I work for Weber School District

We spent Presidents Day weekend up at Bear Lake staying in a condo and relaxing through the weekend. Staci's Blog goes into detail about what we did so I won't repeat. It is Weds. 25th of Feb. and I have finally finished digging out of the snow from the storm that hit on Tues. the 17th. I know that when I go on vacation and have to have a substitute custodian it's always a crap shoot. Well snake eyes is what I rolled. Weber School District's Sub's are terrible. It's not totally their fault. They are underpaid, undertrained, and unfamiliar with the in's and out's of the individual schools. It's really alot to learn, I just wish they could take a little more initiative and ownership of there work. Tuesday was one of those storms that only come around once and a while. 24 inches of heavy wet snow fell in about 18 hrs. Clearing that much snow is a chore and you have to be on it to really keep up. My sub was caught with his pants down. In all fairness it's hard to hold a bottle of Mt. Dew, push a snow shovel, and make progress at the same time. The worst part is he only shoveled the same shovel width around the school. OOOHHH! I forgot to mention that I have a four-wheel drive tractor with a 60 inch blade. No shovel is needed. I know that there would be parts of the school that the tractor would have bogged down and not been able to clear, but the main walks could have been done. By the way I also have a four foot snow blower that goes on the tractor as well. It runs off the PTO and can move mountains of snow. It only takes 5 minutes to attach. It could have moved anything that fell. So I shake my head and wonder why they didn't put good equiptment to work. Why would you run circles in the parking lot, and ignore the sidewalks? The district has big trucks for the parking lot. The sidewalks are the custodians priority. Needless to say when I return to work on Wednesday I had an mess of snow, a tractor on empty, and a bunch of questions as to what the heck went on. I managed to get my ego stroked real good when teachers, secretary, and aides all wondered why I could get things done when the two others couldn't. I'm know the sub and Heber were spent. Bonus points for me I can to the job myself.

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