10/4/2013 3:10 PM
It is absolutely maddening and it's no wonder people hate their government. They are a capricious and vindictive lot who has forgotten who they work for. I was in the military for a long time and I made sure I told my sailors that the equipment they used didn't belong to them, rather it was the taxpayers property and that when we dealt with the public, we were dealing with our countrymen.
This county has set us all up as bad people who's sole desire is to rape the environment and screw other people over, when in fact we are just the opposite. The club I work for has gone out of its way to be cooperative and their reward was to spend 5 years in permitting.
We would finish a plan, send it to them with the requisite check and they would send it back for further revision. Every time required paying an engineer, an architect and then the county fee.
We asked for a meeting not too long agao, it was granted and when we were done, we had to cut them a check for 500 bucks.
Un.frikin.believable.
So, yes...we are very happy with the new facility, it will make us a much greener and more efficient operation. It's great to go to work and have a nice office and have a nice lunchroom and shop. We worked out of an utter dung hole for so long that we got used to it and it didn't bother us. The guys had to eat in the shop sitting on mowers because we didn't have a lunchroom and the mechanic, assistant, spray tech and I shared an office. Tru the be told, it worked just fine and if we were still working that way, it would be ok with me, but it's difficult to attract good people when the working conditions are so horrendous, especially a good equipment manager.
This is better.
Regards,
Steve