Cutting back
General January 15th, 2003
I noticed coming back from lunch today that O&M (recently renamed to PC&M after their merge with PD&C) was cutting the hedges around Grainger. It’s like 15 degrees outside, and it’s supposed to snow tonight, and they’re trimming bushes. Worse off, they’re doing it with hand clippers. Not an electric tool, or even a big set of shears, but those small, one branch at a time, clippers. Two people (because O&M almost always works in pairs — even when I’ve seen one of the working and the other taking a nap,) wasting their time cutting one branch at a time.
In January.
We had emails about cutbacks in O&M and the impact on services. ie: lawns further from the quad would not be as well groomed, some cleaning would be delayed/longer intervals between cleanings, some other services delayed/impacted. (That’s the important thing for us — when we need carpenters or electricians to come by and do work for us.) So is it possible they’re just now getting to the work they should have been doing in October/November?
And why the dinky hand tools? Too cheap for the power tools?
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