making detroit suck less

In reply to AngryCorvair:

Whats sad is it'd be more ammunition available for that that the current supply of homeless people they use now.

Xceler8x wrote:

Swank Force One wrote: But how about instead of waiting and coming up with ideas, go ahead and move there and get to work?

I'll send you as my consultant. You don't mind working cheap. I like that in an employee.

Knurled wrote: Someone representing a company called OCP is on the line, should I take a message?

Tell them that my consultant Swank Force One will be in touch. Could you take their number and relay it? That'd be great......Thanks.

I'm not taking another job unless it comes with at least a 25% pay raise and competitive benefits.

So... i'll need 5, preferably 6 weeks paid vacation a year. Free health, life, dental, and vision insurance, and GOOD insurance, none of this $5,000 deductible bullE36 M3.

I'll need the ability to work from home.

And i will only work an hourly rate with plenty of overtime available.

Those things are just to match what i have now. Then i'll take a 25% pay increase, plus another 50% in "Hazard Pay" for having to relocate to Detroit.

OOOOOO!!!!

Then i can post in the 6-figure thread!

Swank Force One wrote: I'm not taking another job unless it comes with at least a 25% pay raise and competitive benefits. So... i'll need 5, preferably 6 weeks paid vacation a year. Free health, life, dental, and vision insurance, and GOOD insurance, none of this $5,000 deductible bullE36 M3. I'll need the ability to work from home. And i will only work an hourly rate with plenty of overtime available. Those things are just to match what i have now. Then i'll take a 25% pay increase, plus another 50% in "Hazard Pay" for having to relocate to Detroit. OOOOOO!!!! Then i can post in the 6-figure thread!

I hate you so much. Want to get married? I'd divorce you just to get half of that.

Swank Force One, I don't want to ever meet Swank Force Two. Next time we hang, beers on me.

I'm taken, and she's already taking most of my money anyways.

Swank Force One wrote:

Xceler8x wrote:

Swank Force One wrote: But how about instead of waiting and coming up with ideas, go ahead and move there and get to work?

I'll send you as my consultant. You don't mind working cheap. I like that in an employee.

Knurled wrote: Someone representing a company called OCP is on the line, should I take a message?

Tell them that my consultant Swank Force One will be in touch. Could you take their number and relay it? That'd be great......Thanks.

I'm not taking another job unless it comes with at least a 25% pay raise and competitive benefits. So... i'll need 5, preferably 6 weeks paid vacation a year. Free health, life, dental, and vision insurance, and GOOD insurance, none of this $5,000 deductible bullE36 M3. I'll need the ability to work from home. And i will only work an hourly rate with plenty of overtime available. Those things are just to match what i have now. Then i'll take a 25% pay increase, plus another 50% in "Hazard Pay" for having to relocate to Detroit. OOOOOO!!!! Then i can post in the 6-figure thread!

I am so sick of this entitlement mentality

DrBoost wrote:

Cotton wrote: I think a free garden would either get vandalized or the produce stripped pretty much as soon as it produced anything....unless you plan on hiring security for the free gardens.

Yup. Some would ruin it because they hate to see things getting better (don't know why), but I think the major issue is nothing will be on the plant long enough to ripen.

This is the sad reality.

Wildflowers are a good start. I bought a jug of seeds at K mart when I bought the house to try and hide some swamp. They come up nice and bright every year and the birds have "deposited" their seeds to other parts of the yard so almost everything that doesn't get mowed can grow flowers. They will brighten up the area for now and if there is interest you can always move on to urban farming.

There are a lot of neighborhoods here where a community garden was a first step towards people taking pride in their block, project, ect. Hopefully it will do the same there. With any luck it will show people that they can have some control over their surroundings instead of feeling like all they can do is call someone and wait. We have removed any sense of self sufficiency from much of the country so that they will no longer do even simple tasks, they just sit and complain that someone else isn't taking care of it fast enough.

Type Q wrote:

Swank Force One wrote:

Xceler8x wrote:

Swank Force One wrote: But how about instead of waiting and coming up with ideas, go ahead and move there and get to work?

I'll send you as my consultant. You don't mind working cheap. I like that in an employee.

Knurled wrote: Someone representing a company called OCP is on the line, should I take a message?

Tell them that my consultant Swank Force One will be in touch. Could you take their number and relay it? That'd be great......Thanks.

I'm not taking another job unless it comes with at least a 25% pay raise and competitive benefits. So... i'll need 5, preferably 6 weeks paid vacation a year. Free health, life, dental, and vision insurance, and GOOD insurance, none of this $5,000 deductible bullE36 M3. I'll need the ability to work from home. And i will only work an hourly rate with plenty of overtime available. Those things are just to match what i have now. Then i'll take a 25% pay increase, plus another 50% in "Hazard Pay" for having to relocate to Detroit. OOOOOO!!!! Then i can post in the 6-figure thread!

I am so sick of this entitlement mentality

it's the mentality that you gotta have to survive in Detroit.

Wally wrote: There are a lot of neighborhoods here where a community garden was a first step towards people taking pride in their block, project, ect. Hopefully it will do the same there. With any luck it will show people that they can have some control over their surroundings instead of feeling like all they can do is call someone and wait. We have removed any sense of self sufficiency from much of the country so that they will no longer do even simple tasks, they just sit and complain that someone else isn't taking care of it fast enough.

We had a couple of the abandoned houses in our neighborhood burn down on devil's night, er, devil's week. A few of us started to build raised beds and parcel the lot out to folks (free) for gardens. The city laid the smack down post haste! They'd rather leave the burned down houses with the nails, broken glass, and rats then allow people to farm it.
That was years ago, maybe things are different now.

DrBoost wrote:

Wally wrote: There are a lot of neighborhoods here where a community garden was a first step towards people taking pride in their block, project, ect. Hopefully it will do the same there. With any luck it will show people that they can have some control over their surroundings instead of feeling like all they can do is call someone and wait. We have removed any sense of self sufficiency from much of the country so that they will no longer do even simple tasks, they just sit and complain that someone else isn't taking care of it fast enough.

We had a couple of the abandoned houses in our neighborhood burn down on devil's night, er, devil's week. A few of us started to build raised beds and parcel the lot out to folks (free) for gardens. The city laid the smack down post haste! They'd rather leave the burned down houses with the nails, broken glass, and rats then allow people to farm it. That was years ago, maybe things are different now.

the mistake you made was not making the powers that be think that it was their idea...

I say give the urban farm experiment a try for a couple years. If it doesn't work out, then give everyone still living there a 60 day notice to vacate their premises, then seal the neighborhood off and use it for urban warfare training for the military.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: I say give the urban farm experiment a try for a couple years. If it doesn't work out, then give everyone still living there a 60 day notice to vacate their premises, then seal the neighborhood off and use it for urban warfare training for the military.

You know. This would be a great use of the national guard and the army core of engineers. Use it as a traing ground for land reclimation post war land clearing etc.