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The Recycling Room

This morning I got a “Attention All Tenants” letter delivered under my door in regards to the recycling room, it seems we have a tenant who’s not familiar on how to get rid of their trash.  Personally I rarely use the recycling room I’ve been here for almost 2 years and I have my own waste management system.
I do have a beef - I don’t appreciate getting a note typed in large bold letters demanding we do this and we do that, then describing the contents of what was found “Animal or human feces and a pair of bloodied pants” etc is something I don’t need to know.  I can understand the male employee who cleaned up the mess was pissed off but come on people let’s use discretion in these matters.  You have cameras monitoring the hallways do a private investigation, use this equipment to find the culprit and perhaps fine the person and better still try educating them on how to recycle.  An open letter delivered to tenants will only cause finger pointing and start the rumor mill spinning on who done it.
That being said, as far as closing the recycling room indefinitely I couldn't care less and according to a KM former outreach worker, a few years ago for health and safety reasons the City Of Hamilton gave Koo Gaa Da Win Manitou Housing Complex an order not to use the small basement space as a recycling room. 

Hmmm...So who’s in the wrong here…I’ll let the readers decide.

Comments

TravestyBrant said…
Did you ever think mabye the letter being typed in "large bold letters" was due to the fact that you live in a place filled with SENIORS! and sadly with age things start to fail such as oh.. eyesight.

And perhaps they did look at the video and couldn't come to a firm conclusion on who the 'culprtit' was. If it were your job to clean the mess I'm sure you would be posting some damn big font on your good ol blog here.
Tony King said…
TBrant aka Jan P.
In regards to your point about eyesight when I read I use my prescription eyeglasses and I'm sure everybody else in the building does the same. Just so you people in the office know we're not dumb nor half blind Indians. We can read normal size print. :P

I'm glad you mentioned my "Good ol Blog" Yep I have to say this is my baby. :)

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