GSA Emails Recount Inside Story of Exploding Toilets

First time accepted submitter v3rgEz writes "Six months ago, the toilets of the General Services Administration started exploding, injuring two employees and beginning the agency's spiral down the drain of bad press (this is the same GSA now under fire for pricey Vegas conference flings). E-mails just released under FOIA now show the culprit: Compressed air + ancient plumbing + leaving it all unattended."

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when janitors aren't considered cool

[decora]

look in the govt, 'maintenance man' is the lowest you can go on the totem pole/cast system.

you will be a fucking GS3 making 20k/year or some horrible shit while congressman doing coke off hookers in the lincoln bedroom get perks out the ass, etc etc etc.

of course, their toilets wont work because maintenance men won't be allowed overtime, won't be encouraged to get more education, won't ever get promoted, etc etc etc... but hey, whatever. they didn't go to MI fucking T right? am i right?

this is a symptom of what is wrong with this country. building spy planes that can blow up people in their houses in the middle of the night from 100 miles away, but you cannot fix the fucking bridges and keep the goddamn hospitals clean, because the only thing 'cool' about janitorial/maintenance/cleaning is how low you can push the costs by outsourcing and re-out-out sourcing, privatizing everything from the toilet seat installation to the toilet paper delivery, so some hedge fund finance fucktard can say 'oh i saved 2 percent this year, i deserve a 50,000$ bonus for projected savings over the next 30 years'

We think the soviet union collapsed on itself? we are collapsing on ourselves right now. bridges are falling apart. roads are falling apart. schools are falling apart. they are firing cops, they are firing fucking firefighters. they are trying to destroy the goddamn firefighters union for chrissakes because it 'costs too much'.

you know what costs too much? the fucking system costs too much, and eventually it will self topple just like the soviets did. nice fucking country while it lasted, good ideals, in practice they did not get implemented. oh fucking well. start over and build again.