Call Sleepy's, for the mess of your life
By adamg - Mon, 08/11/2008 - 2:10pm.
You know what happens when you're a moron a stupid union with a grudge against some chain and your fliers get all over and then it rains? You get a big mess when the paper gets stuck to the sidewalk and the city DPW has to send a crew down to try to clean up after you.
Ryan, who took the above photo outside the newly opened Sleepy's on Boylston Street, reports on the soggy, glue-like detritus left behind by somebody who doesn't like the chain:
But the real loser wasn't Sleepy's - although they did probably lose a lot of business - it was the poor guy who had to sweep up the papery mess. The whole time I was out there he was concentrating on just one area. He'll probably still be sweeping up Sleepy's mess come quiting time.
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DPW sweeps up litter on streets?
My sidewalk frequently looks just about like that (except with varying items, not identical letter-sized papers). So does the nearby lot that the city owns. The city doesn't clean either one. Or fine people who bag their trash like assholes. Or patrol the neighborhood when there's a party up the hill and people are tossing bottles on the way to the train station. Instead, the homeowners all end up cleaning the sidewalks. Why does the city decide to clean Boylston Street?
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Here's what you do
Get your street rezoned commercial and then the DPW will clean up your sidewalks. Of course, then you might get mattress stores moving in ...
Im not saying its right but
Im not saying its right but
If you were paying the same sort of taxes the businesses were, and complained to the city (where it counts) as much as they were, and were as united with your neighbors (as many businesses in a business district tend to be) on what you wanted you would definitly get the same reaction. Once again, not saying its right, but its the truth. Theres a reason why I dont live in Boston, and make it a point to know all my neighbors and elected/appointed officials and city workers. If people know that there will be many complaints tomorrow if they dont fix it today, they will fix it today.
New England Council of Carpenters
They're to blame (look at the very bottom of the flier).
I wonder if the city will be sending them a bill?
Crybabies
Are you kidding me?? That crap on their poster is from 2004(!!) and Sleepy's agreed to pay NJ and reform its policies.
On top of that, *David* Acker is the President and CEO. Stuart Acker (brother, probably, it's a family business started by father Harry Acker from his dad's store) is the head of Marketing and Advertising. I doubt Marketing and Advertising has anything to do with hiring contractors to build stores, so I'm sure he's glad to get the calls.
Finally, no search of Sleepy's and contractors or other combinations came up with *any* proof of the claim at the bottom of the flyer. The whole things seems utterly contrived and makes me question the flyer loon's relationship with the Carpenters at all.
Please fix the link for "They're to blame"
Please fix the link for "They're to blame".
The link didn't work!
Tried it just now, worked
What do you see when you click on it?
I get "Forbidden"
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /wp-content/uploads/2008/08/sweepy/sweepy-close.JPG on this server.
... but only sometimes. Other times it works just fine. This doesn't make sense.
My htacesss file may be too
My htacesss file may be too good. It won't even let me access the file when clicking from UH. Try this instead.
Thanks
I've changed the link above to this one (strange, I never had problems seeing the image).
Who knows. My hosting is
Who knows. My hosting is too good sometimes.
What happens
If you link from an outside source, it's checking your referrer and denying you access. This prevents hotlinking, etc. If you have been to the blog and seen the pic already once, however, your browser has cached the image and when you go to the (old) link here it brings it up for you, skipping the need to ask the server for permission/download. Finally, if you get "forbidden" on something someone believes you should be able to see, like this instance, then usually all you need to do is click in your URL after it says forbidden and just click enter again. This asks for the URL from the same URL and passes most anti-hotlink/referrer checks because now instead of coming from uhub.com, you're coming from its own website (even though it didn't serve anything up but a forbidden warning the first time).
Hope that helps.
Send them the bill and the trash
They should not only charge them for the cleanup crew, but cite and fine them for littering. What a mess. They should also dump all of this wet mess right in their office. Do they have an office?
Sure do
803 Summer St., fourth floor.
Sleazy's
The flyer pollution isn't right, that's for sure, but they have enemies for a reason. A friend of mine worked in their front office and has much to say about the way these folks treat people.
You know those classic 1970s stereotypes about horrendous sexist pigs running the family business and treating the people like crap? Particularly the "non-family" members who do most of the actual work? Treating "non family" women to a constant litanny of disrespect, unreasonable demands, anger explosions, etc.? They live them and breathe them according to my friend.
Not surprised they have enemies, if this is the way they treat people at the top end.
How do you know it was an official "union decision" to litter?
Couldn't it have been done by one guy with access to a Xerox machine? If some jerk pulls all the Boston Phoenix's out of a newspaper box and dumps them on Washington Street in Roslindale, should the city send the cleaning bill to Stephen Mindich or whoever owns the Phoenix these days?
I don't know
It could be somebody forged the union bug on the fliers. Or it could be "legitimate" fliers from a union that advertises the quality of its work on WBZ radio every day. If the latter, I'd apply the same rule ISD allegedly does when they find envelopes with your name on them in a trash heap on the other side of town - you better have a good reason why you shouldn't be blamed for dumping the stuff.
Fair enough
I get some annoying religious pamphlets on my windshield sometimes, also advertisements and so forth- I've often wondered if the church or other entity that leaves those unsolicited ads could be cited for littering or something. But at least they're not plastering an entire city block.
...when we got a phone call from Officer Obie...
He said, "Kid, we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it."
(And I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope under that garbage.")
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Photos
Looks like Ryan took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs, although I'm not sure he's printed them up with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one.
Complete with five-part harmony?
And what does this have to do with the draft anyway?