Results tagged “waste”

The Seattle Department of Transportation failed to properly oversee almost $200,000 in roadwork, the reports, all of which will now be replaced at the city's cost. In the midst of the ongoing budget crisis at City Hall, this does nothing to help Greg Nickels' re-election campaign, who some pollsters show losing in head-to-head races with virtually all his potential opponents.

We're number four on the list, behind San Francisco, New York, and Portland. SF and NYC we can see, because the data says that density equals more efficient use of resources, but Portland...come on.

Hello co-workers. Do you see us burning a hole through your backs, staring at you viciously out of the corners of our eyes as we watch you come into the shared kitchen, grab an essentially non-recyclable pseudo-styrofoam cup from the stack next to the water cooler and somehow manage to avoid the sign that my friend put up next to the cooler indicating what wasteful, ignorant fools you are for not being able to bring your own goddamned coffee cup or water glass to re-use at work? Yes, you. We see you. You suck.