Have an interview with the city

Gotta let us know where you are for an accurate rundown. North/south/east/west means alot.

 

Funny you bring this up just last week the city guys were looking for ALL storm drains to “map them”.
This was because of a new law that they all have to be cleaned out once or every 2 years or something like that. They needed to know what was dumping into them if not just from the street. They saw a pipe going into the one at the end of my driveway. They asked about the pipe, never knew the pipe was there, they said they would be back after mapping locations to run a camera up the pipe to see where it went and to give a fine to whoever it went to. BTW in 26+ years here I have never seen the storm drain cleaned. The 1 across the street don’t 2 times a year as he puts leaves down it then calls city to clean it out.

So my guess is it is part of this new law and they need people to fill jobs. City workers do not work all that hard around here and are union.
If you are somewhere it snows/ice will they (make you) do plow/sanding work too? I know it can run days without rest but the OT I hear is good. I don’t think you would work no were near as hard as you are now and better hours too.
Dave ----

 

Mike, Hit up ACH1130 . He only post in the LTL / Local threads. Just recently gotten a job with his city.

 

Had a employer from your neck of the woods, Called Wills trucking, They did walking floor trailers and was owned by a towing company on Columbia Road in Richfield. Horrible outfit and horrible pay.

I'm 90 minutes from you, Cleveland is bad, not Detroit bad, no healthy jobs around. I wouldn't trust city jobs ( politicians ) and the pension fund = bad crap.

You look into any LTL companies?

 

Government jobs usually have better benefits than pay. But there is a lot more BS involved. If your priority is cash flow, then stay where you are. If you're looking for better health insurance, vacation and holiday pay, sick pay and retirement benefits, and you can deal with mountains of BS (and boredom), then consider the local government job.

 

BS yes and this is not the normal BS. 1 buddy works for the city as a mechanic and just about everyone was DNA tested because someone took a leak in some ones lunch box last winter. Think buddy said they think it was the owner of box that took the leak in his own box just to piss off everyone as he was one of few to have keys to the room it was locked in and 1 of few not tested.

He has 2 cousins in city waste management and 3rd retired from fire dept.
Also have other buddy’s in another town over as a mechanics.
All have been with their city/town for 10 years or more. Once in and have a few years under your belt you are safe for life it seems.
Dave ----

 

City Sewer Dept. labor. = being a grunt.
I would ask if they do there own sewer and water repairs. If they don't contract that work out then you can plan on being in the ditch with the broken sewer/ water line when it is getting repaired. Being on call, Plowing snow for endless hours, Govt. BS, seniority, and others being lazy while they count the hours until retirement. Having said all of that, when I located underground utilities for a couple years I located for several municipalities and never met one guy that was " unhappy " with his job.

Good luck and GO BROWNS!