Friday, October 18, 2019

Saw an apartment 2 story roof in Burlingame being re-tarred today. Why not just pour gasoline? Tar is EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE and should be Outlawed!!

Fire ,,, Safety,,,right?

Friday, October 11, 2019

Sesame Street is Great, so much Better then "Mayor Art" and "Buffalo Bob" I was commercial tv raised on in the BayArea 1950s. But...I noticed they don't touch much, don't hug much, so maybe there is a Better Make-Believe, like my childhood with 2 kids lapsitting after Dinner as Dad read Sis and I another story every night, or hugging my Sis and Mom and Dad lots tho we aren't Italian or french, and lots of touching, so important in communication with children and even partners. Maybe

Maybe the creators, of Sesame Street, didn't touch much in their family childhoods. Ah, touch!!

Oh, to be raised by a Robot, driven to school by a Robot, meal prep-ed by a Robot, floor vacuumed by a Robot.
No dogs, no cats, no chickens, no hamsters, no horned lizards, and no hugs from Sis. Maybe that's some businesses dream.

Businesses expect new cops,for instance, to work the night shift without double pay for diurnal daytime people.
Working nights for years is sooo hard, but people are expected to do it for the same daytime pay, even tho it totally messes up Your life in Society!

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Watching "To Dine with..." interview the Muse CEO

I don't want to work for any company that...

Regularly withholds my hourly employee's pay, up to $10,000/year, like some Iranian led SF tour-charter bus company for over 5 yrs.
And mostly got away with it. "Everybody does it, so this company would be foolish not to do it too,"I was told by a famous Swiss on hiring.

Delays my hourly pay by biweekly paycheck for 8 days, and then 19 days after that. Or gets away with classifying me as an "independent contractor" when 10 years ago all similar job workers at airport shuttle van companies were hourly wage employees. Or any company that expects me to buy certain customers lunch and sleep with their secretaries and senior old office female managers, as a no base, tiny commission white collar suit. Or starts a ride company with shorted paychecks, black on white racism, sexual harassment, and somehow no driver random drug testing. Or any very sick bipolar boss!

Dumps bus toilet sewage across the employee parking lot for months into a storm drain that goes to the Bay. And gets away with it because they are rich rich Greeks that the Mayor and County Public Health won't touch, out of just wealth worship and fear.

A CEO who is weak or inadequate at leading his or her company. Most review companies only want customer's not employee's opinions. When are we going to really see how sick or ailing some companies are, for possible employees and stock buyers and from employees with a protected voice; Do you really think the package shooting was not bad company culture but just one sick employee?

Companies that don't pay any federal taxes like Amazon and Google.
Companies that mine our personal data to sell to any inc. Companies without principles, morals, or ethics.
Companies that sell bad toxic unhealthy products just for profit. Companies that pollute or make unrecyclable plastic and asbestos products, faulty hernia mesh, faulty drugs, faulty metal to metal hip joints still. Or oil inc.
Companies that pay off Congress to prevent progress. Or work for any "campaign contribution" compromised elected official.

Put That in your 21st Century job search engine!

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Ken Burns, You should do the Native Americans next.

Yep, it's long overdue.
It's super important to those cultures and our country.
Sure, it's going to be the hardest thing you've ever done.
And the most , maybe not rewarding, but significant.
You may have to hire a Director in every state, as this is going to be a huge project.
And who else?

With just 1 example, I can prove American Medicine's heart is in,,, the Wrong place, closer to it's wallet.

Let's say you have ear wax, and your Doctor says "You are to come in every month to have it removed."
Ok, sound reasonable.

So you go to VA Audiology and a nice young tech picks it out in 10 minutes, no pain no fuss. You thank him, and drive 30+ minutes home.

The next month you go to the VA again for your appointment, and you are sent to the E.N.T.(ear nose throat) Clinic and told to "have a seat, you're on time, just wait."(Called "hurry up and wait" in the military.)
After awhile,,, they call your name and a Nurse of some sort walks you into a tiny room with an Ear Wax Vacuum Machine, about 3ft square. She turns it on and sticks it in your ear, VERY NOISY and PAINFUL !! Can't I do the Audiology tech and ear pick again, pleeease?
"No, this is all, for the rest of your life, month after month, 30minutes of (Torture) this."
No thanks, I won't be back!

I get mailers all the time about "Free hearing (aid ear) test" and I have done it convinced I didn't want to go thru many expense foreign hearing aids, gunked with ear wax, like my dear Dad.
And they always, always pick the ear wax out first, never an ear wax vacuum loud painful machine.

So I asked around.
What do you do for ear wax?
Dad goes to the $ hearing aid store monthly to get his hearing aid unclogged and his very hairy ears picked of ear wax.
Mom goes to Kaiser monthly and uses their nurse and ear wax vacuum machine, "For many years, because my Doctor told me to!"
Sis uses ear drops.

Called the local elected politicans.
Congress isn't going to tell Medicine how to do "their business."

If you are curious, or into S&M, go to your local American hospital or clinic and try out the Ear Wax Vacuum (torture) Machine.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Chariot and Ford-Chariot never in 5 years did an honest "random drug testing program". They may say they did, but they lied, a lot.

Who and how many politicians got paid off with "campaign contributions" to overlook little old "public safety"?
Pulitzer prize winner for some investigating reporter...

Thursday, July 25, 2019

It's Amazing to me that some USA Mother's do Not want to be their Child's "confidante"! It's like Not reporting a neighbor's Child Abuse. Shocking!, but it happens.

I was sitting at the bar local sushi restaurant next to what family of about 5. The young teenage boy sitting next to me and I said "hello" and chatted.

I offered to show him how to use chopsticks.
We ordered different sushi so we talked about that.

Then I told him what I thought was important at his age, that he pick a motto, like my "be prepared" from Boy Scouts or "honesty and kindness" or "stronger smarter kinder" like Sesame Street. Two of my high school friends became multi-millionaires with the motto "be prepared". Also good manners and good penmanship!

I told him I really hated as a teenager constantly being asked by relatives and strangers "what are you going to be when you grow up?" Constantly.
I told him that I thought I wanted to work as a scuba diver for Jacques Cousteau or maybe a park ranger in Yosemite but that I really didn't know until after 4 years of college.
I told him I had made a lot of money and had a lot of fun being a tour bus driver in California and also a limo driver to the super rich and movie stars so it worked out okay eventually.

The other thing I tried to help him with was bullying which was a huge problem back in the 50s and 60s. My dad said to just live with it.
So I told him my mother was my confidante and I could talk to her about anything from mean kids at school to girls to homework to feeling awkward socially and not being able to dance.

At the end of the meal I guess he told his mom all this and she was offended that a stranger would be so honest and caring about her son in casual conversation.
They were regulars at this sushi restaurant, but they have not come back.

So I apologize to the mother, for being honest and caring.
They say "it takes a community".
I guess I am extremely lucky to have had such a wonderful Mother.

You may have heard the News talk about pedestrian deaths in San Francisco and how drivers are to blame. Not true! Blame the red light walking and running pedestrians and the lack of police on the street downtown!

Everybody in town knows this.

But nobody wants to talk about it or do anything about it!, like ticketing pedestrians that walk on a red light or start walking in a crosswalk on a red hand signal. I just saw a woman at Embarcadero4 walk across the crosswalk on a yellow light, way too late, impeding right turning traffic!

Remember that tourism is by far and away the number one business of San Francisco.
And the sfpd are usually rarely seen  on sidewalks downtown.
The sfpd has been very ineffectual at stopping the recent rash of bicycle theft to public sidewalk bicycle chop shops, nor the rash of car window smashing day and night all over town!
Shootings have commonly happened on Mason Street just west of Union Square in the Tenderloin neighborhood.

What is needed is a massive increase it daytime downtown patrols by DPT and MTA, educating pedestrians at crosswalks.
And as is necessary, ticketing dangerous selfish risky pedestrian lawbreakers, even if from foreign countries or Marin.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Gavin Newsom moved from Lt.Gov. to Governor. It's been over 6months. I expected more talk and much more action.

#1, start clearing the "fuel load" all across the State and use the National Guard.
Don't wait for the end of "fire season" next Winter. Ban gum trees.

#2, Ban the diet use of Antibiotics in California animal feed, so it has at least some positive effect on human health.

#3, ban fracking. Make the oil industry clean up.

#4, promote hydrogen fuel cell cars and expensive electricity here for expensive , flammable , still experimental electric cars in a big State with 400miles from SF to LA.

#5, ban cigarette filters.

#6, outlaw non-recyclable plastic. Require the industry to collect sort and safely recycle all California plastic.

#7, privatize the DMV and Caltrans that wasted $6B on the new flawed Oakland Bay Bridge.

#8, ban Roundup that never should have been sold. Start a new strict control on toxic farm chemicals.

#9, Help Public School teachers by allowing them to move their salaries and senority anywhere in the State. Ban gold handshakes and wasteful gold

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Lots of Nations and cultures are comfortable with a high level of Crime and Violence: Mexico Iran Nigeria etc

Education is Not Highly Valued by Most there...

Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Wrote the California ATTORNEY GENERAL to get help with SJWater and Soquel Water long history of gross OVERCHARGING. He wrote, 'i work for the State Agencies, Not the Public.'. Ouch!

HiSo the only getting worse DMV?  Yep.

And the incompetent CALTRANS that totally wasted $6B on the new but broken Oakland Bay Bridge,,,and can't/won't pick up the shoulder highway litter weekly,,,or remove the many highway side dead trees,,,or contracts with a repaving company about 2 years ago that redid 101 between SF and SJ but didn't use enough tar so the new roadway crumbled in the first rain, that month?
Yep.

And the inept PUC that allowed PG&E to "deferred maintenance" on $M and $B and maybe $Ts of gas and electric infrastructure, causing electricity rates to climb and making electric cars and "all-electric houses" a bad and super expensive choice.
Yep, those bums too!

Yikes!!

Franciscan Winery, Napa, Manager chewed me out Twice for directing my tour bus passengers from SF to the bathrooms Before the paid tour!!

My bus boss told me to keep going there.
So eventually I quit that SF tour bus company!
Hornblower Bus to Chariot bus to a tiny limo company and I am still offended and bothered by this arrogant abusive Franciscan Winery manager!

See the winery is now "closed".
Wonder why...

Saturday, June 29, 2019

I was told I couldn't have a pocketknife in a federal building in San Mateo, Ca.

In 1969, the Nixon Presidency "Birthday Lottery" I was told I was going from college to an Army Physical then Drafted into the awful ground war in far far foreign Vietnam.

For 2 years i was told to shoot and kill "gooks" and be shot at risking Death, for what.

I came back a Veteran, a social outcast , with few job opportunities, so worked at the USPO for only $4.22/hr until the Post Office imploded.

The VA hospital was abusive, horrible...

I sold clothing for $6/hr...
I was barely getting by in the 70s and 80s, unable to afford a wife or family...
Watching illegal immigrants bring all their children.

And after being Yanked out of college by that creep Nixon, shot at and killed some in some miserable country I never want to see again, I am told I can not carry a small pocket knife in San Mateo as a ... War Veteran.

And no fingernail clippers on a commercial airplane!
As an American War Veteran!
Crazy...

So Proud of and for the AMERICA WOMEN'S FUTBOL SOCCER TEAM!!

SO PROUD THEY BEAT STRONG FRANCE TEAM IN FRANCE AND HUGE STADIUM!!
GO USA WOMEN!!

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

The World's First,,, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Ferry Boat is being built! in the BayArea!! 5 on order!!

Electric car power has too much Hype!!

California electricity is way too expensive, and only becoming much more Expensive, because of incompetent PUC state agency and irresponsible neglecting PG&E power company with major infrastructure backlog ,,, and caused fire Debt.

Electric car batteries in Teslas have caught fire too often. Too hard to extinguish by FDs.
And are too heavy for personal car transport!!
And Electronic batteries are too slow to charge and the charging stations are too expensive for most houses and most apartment buildings to install.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power is The Answer, California!!

Yippee!
This ferry may be on the Bay by Sept-Oct!!

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

The Oakland "Ghost Ship" warehouse-apt bldg fire is so unjust with the rich owner not charged! The city police and fire Dept knew, so they are complicit too!

Thus current law and current law enforcement in California is unfair and unjust!

Saturday, June 15, 2019

Only one experience with a PICKPOCKET Professional ,very slick, 2 elderly well dressed couples off a cruise ship!

I was driving a SF city tour and picked up at the new cruiseship pier.
These 2 old but very well dressed couples get on and sit in the front right seats.
My daypack was in their overhead shelf area, in my sight, if I looked over my right shoulder...

But somehow, while driving and looking forward at the road,,,
They unzipped my daypack and got my wallet out!
How!??
At the next walk stop I got out of the Driver's seat and checked my daypack.
The wallet was outside, on the shelf!!
How did they do that in front of all these passengers!?

All the cash and credit cards were still there. Phew!
So I hung my daypack on the hook on the wall behind my bus Driver's seat.
And I did not say anything.
These 2 old couples were Pros!

Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Samsung Galaxy Tab A with AT&T is,,,Way too Slow to "boot" start and open main screen, plugged into a power cord or by battery.

Stalls at the battery %...
Stalls at the brand name...
(at work)

TOO SLOW, Samsung!!

Saturday, May 04, 2019

I just don't understand how Alaska can be voted "Best Domestic Airline" when I've had so many problems!

Dad and i and another pair or two went to Alaska to fish yearly. The flight to Seattle was ok, nothing special. Remember as a kid riding in the back of the station wagon? Like that.

But leaving Seattle on an old dirty half seats, half cargo smaller commercial jet was the beginning of the adventure!
In Anchorage we had to wait a couple hours for a flight back down to Yakutat, the famous Situk River and super Capt. Mark.
Once the gate agent woman was so rude as to tell us to "just sit!"

One time my duffel was sent way out to the Aleutian islands for 3 days;To me, no accident, just pure hostility. My raingear, dop kit, and clean clothes...no excuse!
Another time most of our checked 70# boxes of halibut, silver salmon and red sockeye salmon was checked baggage "lost" by Alaska Airlines; We finally were retail price fully reimbursed, and the fish we bought lasted us a year almost as planned, it just wasn't the fish we spent $1000s to catch and swat mosquitos almost as big as...

On one trip I expected to see Brown bears across the 20-40ft wide Situk River, so i called Alaska to ask if I could bring $35 big can of pepper spray and holster.
"Sure you can, as long as you declare it and put it in your checked bag. No problem. We do it all the time."
Just to be sure I called back twice and got the same story from Alaska reservation clerks.
At the airport I told the guy at the front check-in counter.
By the time I walked to the gate, "it was confiscated" the gate agent told me!
What!?

Not enough?
I caught a last minute flight to Hawaii to be with someone, and Alaska wasn't my first second or third preference.
Sure enough, the long narrow plane was a boring decor of white walls and blue seats.
And the Flight Attendants mostly hid in the back kitchen for the 5hr daytime flight.

Southwest crews are almost always in a better, more fun mood; I've only been on 1 uncleaned plane flight.
One carrier has tropical decor partitions ,,, and Navy blue seats.
JetBlue use to have leather biz seats for Everyone and happy crews.
United may have to change it's name after dragging an MD off a plane for his overbooked seat.
The old guy on the Alaska plane tail is Not that interesting.

So what am I missing???

One huge secret problem with the EU has always been the right to immigrate. More French move to England than English rich retirees move to France?

Then problem comes when 1000s of Eastern Europeans move into your town and don't want to Assimilate! They make their own less attractive neighborhood. Some bring gang crime, like moving from Mexico to the USA with millions and millions of Latin gangsters now. LA, Fresno, etc.

Fewer local shoppers means fewer local shops. Kind of like the big box stores and huge malls destroying town's tiny downtown thriving businesses, like novel Valley Fair and downtown San Jose, Redev. Agency costly criminal mess, and still SJ is struggling after city govt moved out and back, and crime peaked. Beside pampering BigBiz to detriment of resident citizens and their neighborhoods, SJ is still a mess. Sanctuary City anyone? East San Hosed.

Western Europe, like SF, depends on tourism.
If you fly to Italy or Austria, France or Sweden, do you want to meet locals or unhappy unassimilated 1000s of uncivilized bad habit possibly unprincipled or criminal Eastern Europeans?

Western European country cultures are so different and still not ready for EU no borders.
That's why since the 1960s the EC or now EU has had trouble talking about this aspect of the human not biz huge social experiment.

Scotland's Edinburgh and Germany's Berlin do Not have strong effective Rent Control, like SF.

Shocking the EU hasn't gotten around to that,,,, yet!

Google Map doesn't allow annoymous resident Reviews of Apartment building businesses, unlike hotels motels and hostels. Also does Not show all night freight or passenger RxR railroad tracks, say if you are looking for a quiet hotel or motel. And does Not show bike& pedestrian crossings over highways, if you are staying at an $ hotel and want to get to a restaurant on the other side of the highway.

Congress does a lousy job of regulating the internet, don't you think?

SF wants to Ban All Cigarettes, the First city in the Nation. Wouldn't it be so much Easier Smarter Wiser to just ban cigarette Filters from Sale? End of future butt litter on land and ocean.

Banning cigarettes and tobacco nicotine from addicts is like banning ,,, wine ,,,and Foolish Folly of Prohibition all over again, more $ for Organized Crime.
Stupid.

Is the SF Bay an Asset or still a Dump? The Legislature and Congress are Experts at ignoring problems big and small, from Fed tax rewrite to decades of boats abandoned in Our Bay!

Currently there is an abandoned sailboat near Brisbane on the Peninsula between Sierra Point and Candlestick right on the shore.

"So pick the trash up!!", you might say.
Obviously, with all the govt we have from City to County to State and the Feds with all the regional agencies like Bay Area Conservation and Development Commission and the California Coastal Commission and even the military, the United States Coast Guard. And the Clean Water Act.

In the go-go develop 60s, private ownership of the land below the Bay water was allowed and raw sewage from most cities around the Bay was without sewage plants just piped into the Bay.

All our state politicians are so busy collecting Citizen United ruling approved "campaign contributions" of political funds, or bribes. And they have been very busy as insiders getting richer and richer as our democratic Republic's senators and representatives. If they were still in elementary school they would all get "D"s for "Johnny and Judy don't do most of their homework."

So I call a few local Reps offices.
"Not in My District."
"Gee, my district but don't know who to call to remove that abandoned yacht right next to highway 101. Did you try the Coast Guard?"

All the govt employees and billions spent on them and this small but significant problem for Decades of who/which agency or commission or Dept actually removes abandoned yacht is still unclear, undecided in 2019!

Called the Coast Guard twice at SFO station and GG Bridge station, that took a report.
Nothing happened.
Called Save the Bay, report or info taken.
Nothing done.
Called the Baykeepers, like the Riverkeepers.
"We don't know either."

I'm not trying to get the Feds to total change the tax corrupt code of loopholes and rifleshots and complexities or get universal health care for the last advanced nation or end these endless enemy-making foreign wars or ban cigarette filters not cigarettes or stop global warming and or get Trump un-re-elected.
I'm just trying to get 1 yacht trash removed, then all yacht trash removed, maybe, hopefully.
Easy right?

So I called KNTV2 newsroom and ABC7 tv newsroom.
Guess one more abandoned small yacht/boat in the Bay doesn't have the "infotainment" sex appeal needed to be "news"nowadays.
Have you also seen old widows standing on the curb after a 3day no cause eviction? Oh right, we ignore old weak poor lonely disabled "street" people, shamefully, don't we.
No more Bay Guardian newspaper...
KQED has become so commercial tho "public"...
Who cares?
The new Governor, Gavin Newsom?
The Frisco Mayor, fighting for homeless shelters in All the rich,or poor, SF neighborhoods?

Thursday, May 02, 2019

SF's Redesign of "Hwy 101" Van Ness Blvd is a 3 YEAR MESS and 2 YEARS BEHIND SCHEDULE! What if it doesn't probably work emphasizing and declining ridership trouble Muni City bus system??

So many OOPS PROJECTS recently in SF from Cheap steel tracks replaced in the subway to the sinking and leaning Mission St. Millennium Tower to Big Early Cracks in the Salesforce Big Expensive Transit Center to Nuclear Waste hidden and falsified report at Hunters Point Shipyard to ,,, even the lack of basic Housekeeping of clean sidewalks and sewage left on Pennsylvania x 22nd Street from City Workers for Days!

Blame Oakland and J.Brown for the Oakland Bay Bridge $6B cost overrun Fiasco.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

How was Jerry Brown as Governor 4xs and 16years. Eh to "D"eplorable!!

How was he as the Public Leader?
Almost never talked on tv to the state populace, so "D".
But then that has been the awful INCUMBENT tradition in California. He 2 pump idea was so much worse than his Dad's first canal robbing NorCal water for irresponsible too big SoCal.

How was he as the top State Administrator?
Caltrans got worse. Over $6B wasted on the new flawed Oakland Bay Bridge.
Lousy substandard contractors it hires like the very soon, crumbling in the rain, repaving of major highway 101 between SJ and SF. The workers swirl the trash with those slow giant vacuum trucks for decades instead of sucking it up and taking it to the landfill. I've actually seen them dump their loads on SF highway 101 shoulder!

DMV got much worse. Surprised?
Lines out the door at Fremont of over 50 folks standing for hours in the sun. And the AC-ed employees inside still move at a snail pace. Even opening on Saturdays didn't help much. And the blatant fraud, like one peninsula DMV office charging me my registration fee, then sending me to a second window to double charge me again! As a Commercial Driver I expect to stand in line over an hour just to turn in my Annual/Biannual Driver Physical Report form! And to get a printout of my driving record for my employer, at least 2 hours standing in line.
So another "D".

KQED did a show in his last month/s and all I heard were "yeah but" constant excuses. Yes, we have had much worse Governor's, so let's be honest in our complete fair public printed documented evaluation of them, instead of "sweeping the dirt under the carpet" again and again, and again!

At least Arnold S. had polite staff large enough to quickly answer the phone politely and transfer you to an uncooperative state Dept head.

2018 SF "said" they were hiring "50 additional aborists for all the city tree pruning" and lots of dead trees. Looking at the public trees, i sure don't "see" it !!

Take 280N into the SE quarter and come elevated littered freeway down to King st at 5th.
Look on the Left at all those center divide trees that need pruning or have broken branches, just on South side of Caltrain.

It's like the simple job of sidewalk cleaning, preferably steam cleaning at night over just power washing, at this grossgrimy stage.
Downtown, Tenderloin, Soma somewhat, and Chinatown. Easy right?
Instead of "saying" and actually doing it, SF hires a PR firm for flat out lying.

I expect much more from the Mayor's and Board of Supes. You?

Friday, April 19, 2019

SF has new plans for crooked Lombard Street. "Reservations and Fees!" Is this going to help? NO

SF #1 biz, by far far far, is Tourism. Not banks, insurance companies or $300/hr law offices.

But there are so many SuperRich in SF who thing they are thus so Special, and like their private property house rights extend into the public street or the public park across the street as "Theirs!". With so many politicians running around begging for $$$$$, and  "campaign contributions", payola you can see plainly how the SuperRich get so Confused and Spoiled, next to Lombard Street or the Palace of Fine Arts lovely public park or Alamo Square public park. Not theirs, but Ours.

Ok, rich selfish silly people, let me have it!(your compaints, whining, $=votes nonsense)...

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Why oh why does the 2019 IRS still use hooked 6s and hooked 9s, hard to read??

Congress's inertia?

Is the USPS going to IMPLODE under Trump like the USPO did?

Looks highly likely.

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

BIG SALE,,,MENS' UNDERWEAR,,, 32COOL my new Favs,,,at Costco, $5 for 3 pair, cool comfy Black/dark grey nylon

Listen up, Buckaroos and Suits!!
These are Great shorts, even at double, full price!!

Moms Girlfriends and wannabe Girlfriends, buy that Boy some of These!!

"Now Hear This!"
;)

Wednesday, April 03, 2019

SF has a Major sidewalk Litter Problem! You may have heard or Seen!! So today i tipped $5 the RedVest Union Square Biz Assoc. guy, who obviously is Not a RichsSelfishBastard ! Suggest you tip $1 or $5 too, if you like Cleaner sidewalks and Frisco!

There is 311, polite 24-7 message service every city should have, the Public Works and Recology and City-CountyGovt are Not "same day" fast on this Chronic Problem.

Thursday, March 28, 2019

All SFO private car parking lots/garages seem to have the same Problems. Theft, declined body damage, and not enough pick up minivans at either end "as advertised". What to do?

First, posting and having customers sign a "Do not leave any valuables in your car" is NOT a license to steal !!
Someone needs to start a Class Action Lawsuit Suit !!

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

How to Zero Airline Lost Luggage? Inside luggage tags at counter And 24-7 video surveillance of the entire baggage route with filming monitored and saved electronically for year!!

Why do we commercial fliers put up with so many bags loosing their sticky outside tags,,, or airline employees cutting them off!?

Why are some airports notorious in the industry for baggage theft,  like Alaska flights into San Josey!?

Again ,why do we put up with such "deregulation" abuse??

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

PG&E service experience, March 2019

Our bldg had a gas leak from old meters in the garage.
So a gas crew came out and replaced 20+ gas meters and fixed the leak.
But turned off the gas all day.
They left a Notice to call for a tech to re-light all 20+ apartment's gas stoves.

BUT THEY DID NOT SAY,,, "IF PGE TURNS OFF YOUR GAS , YOU CAN ASK FOR SAME DAY SERVICE, 8am-8pm!"
So I made an Appointment,,, in a week! Very Busy.
Then a neighbor told me to call back and ask for SAME DAY SERVICE.
The Fresno Call Center scheduled it!

Another PROBLEM!!
The CS guy didn't tell the Service Tech that #1, "just gas stove re-light".
#2, "Please wear boots covers over muddy lug sole boots."
The Service Tech was on OT and was here an hour!,way too long, 7pm-8pm, working too slowly for free OT dinner at Izzy's Steakhouse!
Just to turn valve on new garage meter and re-light 1 gas stove pilot light,,,1 hour!

When PGE turns off your gas, then THEY SHOULD TELL YOU "yes, you are intitled to same day service to re-light your stove pilot light."
But PGE doesn't tell customers that!

Governor needs to quietly call out the National Guard to Snoop around the NE BayArea to catch the 185 shoots SHOOTER!

The CHP has not caught him.
Only the Governor can call on the National Guard.
If they are not ready, they need to get ready!
Call the FBI too.

Friday, March 15, 2019

ZTE chinese smartphones,,, Lots of unhappy surprises! Horrible Customer Service!!

I went to Best Buy and bought "the phone of the year" they told me, a ZTE Axon7. They didn't tell me I needed a mechanic to replace the battery, with no drop-in ,battery cover!
When I did need to change the battery, I called ZTE America and was told ,"Send it to us for $79 and we will replace the battery. Otherwise the warranty is void. We do not send directions to customers on how they can change out the battery themselves."

So I found 1 sorta ok video on YouTube.
Rather complicated.
So I called Best Buy for service.
"We only service iPhones with Geek Squad."

DO NOT BUY,,, ZTE CELL PHONES!!

Wednesday, March 06, 2019

"paycheckrecords.com" website, not App, NEEDSIMPROVEMENT!!

#1, # of riders and bikes is TOO SMALL print,,, tiny, on a Samsung tablet while driving, Duh!!

#2, the RIDERS and BIKES #s are just the count of how many got on at last stop,,, NOT A RUNNING TOTAL, Duh!!

#3, there is no DRAFT save if you touch the wrong area of the screen, then you must RE-ENTER ALL INFO ON A TINY CELL SCREEN, Duh!!

#4, obviously designed for Tablet or Laptop with tiny windows or thin windows,,, and way too much Open Space to zoOm or chicken-scratch on a smartphone.

#5, they? sent me a "no reply" address email.
So disrespectful.

Better than texting/emailing? Not really.
And who are these "unknown" strangers with my personal info?
No mugshots, from India/ Russia !?
How lazy and dim are Software writers?

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Let's have some USA Workplace fairness and law-abiding, or Mgrs go to jail!, for at least a Week!

Salaried Mgrs at this medium SF company don't have to punch in and can be "late" every day.
As a Teamster lowly employee, if I'm 1min late punching into the very slow Office iPad tablet software, I lose 1hour PAY!!
Totally unfair.
Being treated like a feudal serf!!

Company says "that", but has really No Standards.
So a Mgr can lie and say "I can't get your Monday driving Safety Score for last week, systems down, come back later" ,for 4 weeks!
Or the usual black on white racist Mgrs, "I can't find your bus keys, just wait 30minutes" every day for a month!

Or a sick psycho Mgr who changes your DOT driving timeline record daily for a week, with no responsible adult supervision, should go to JAIL for a WEEK!

In the "wild west" ,still, of Frisco, for Years, a CEO and his GMs can order payroll to short lowly worker's hours and pay for $100-200/month,,, and short Mgrs after 8, paid overtime to Zero, month after month!
That CEO and those GMs and that Payroll Mgr should go to Felony-record JAIL, for at least a week. Yep, in 21st Century.

Saturday, February 23, 2019

"22 Veterans commit Suicide each day." And you're ok with that!?

The VA says they are stopping perscribing antibiotics, because they go to unhealthy factory farm feed. And you're ok with that!?

The VA will painlessly pick your ear wax out once and then monthly painfully noisily vacuum it out every month. And you're ok with that!?

For years the VA has only used a gallon of salt water drink for pre colonoscopy prep with painful stomach cramps instead of the better Golightly stuff. And not done all conscious vs unconscious. And you're ok with this!?

The VA has been bill Our Veterans from one office but requiring  separate checks for each VA you go to, like 4 for me. Not one check to the VA. And you're ok with this!?

It's Feb 2019, people. So let's stop waiting on these politicians.

Friday, February 22, 2019

Instagram blocked me for a day without giving me a reason or chance to apologise!

Social Media Must have Rules, even for fb and ig companies!

Enough tyranny by INSTAGRAM!!

Friday, February 15, 2019

NOT 1 Chick-fil-A on the Entire sf Peninsula!! Recycle incumbents!!

Not 1 SONIC either.

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

IF Everyone in the BayArea, 9Counties of 8M people, Agree that residential "Land is too EXPENSIVE!" Then why are 90% of the new buildings in SF and the BayArea are LOW-RISE, Not HIGH-RISE of outdated old definition of "7 stories or more"!?

First, don't believe half of what Mayors and Politicians say. Or say they will do well.

Know that most cities, towns, and communities in the BayArea are "living in the past" of 1 and 2 story, so Nimby, and more tolerant of Sky Rocketing Rents, so unfair on the ignored Working Poor and still declining "middle class". RIP?

Maybe the new Governor will help all of us, not just the spoiled Rich oil industry and many new High Rise Office Buildings, with NO appreciable housing for 12,000 new office workers in Cupertino and 20,000 new office workers in SanJose!!
Yes, this is the State Govt Super Majority of Democrats "plan".
Ludicrous.

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Sunday morning, 10 Feb 2019. KSBWch8 did a news segment on old folks, hearing loss, and hearing aids. That the expensive product end! What about monthly ear wax removal MD service problems and the constant buzz of tinnitus being IGNORED by Western Medicine,like UCSF!?

The VA picked my ear wax out once, quickly and painlessly.
Then I was sent from Audiology with minor high frequency hearing loss at 70 to ENT to have my ear wax VACUUMED, very loud and painfully!!
The VA refuses to monthly pick my ear wax out quickly and painlessly.
And That is how Our Veterans are really treated, here in the US of A!

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Think you can Trust CalOSHA? Guess again!

Called in a Peninsula bus company that was dumping bus toilet sewage nightly across the employee parking lot for months and into the storm drain to sfbay.

They repeatedly refused to come out and bust or even investigate the Rich Greek owners.

Finally, after the Storm Drain govt guy came out, CalOSHA did come out and cite fine for many garage problems, but not for drivers walking every morning thru sewage for months!

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Today i hope the Criminal Judge finds "on probation" PG&E ...Guilty of Lying to the Court and Voids Bankruptcy, with CEO and Board Chairman going to Prison for at least a year.

He should repair the Customer $8B charges of the flawed 2001 bankruptcy.
And $5M Fine for CEO, COO, CFO, and All the Board of Directors.

And I hope he Scolds the CaPUC for major mismanagement of a private ,for profit, Monopoly , largest Utility in this State, and all the Governors and State Legislatures since the 1960s that looked away.

We the public and the Consumer victims DESERVE OUR DAY IN COURT FOR JUSTICE.
The bankruptcy court doesn't care about us PG&E customers.
And this has little to do with Climate Warming.
This is about irresponsible maintenance ,for profit!!!

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

THANK YOU, Erin Brockovich! For calling correctly PG&E's Bankruptcy request as "Cowardice!" that Must NOT be allowed.

PG&E must stay in biz long enough to buy $1T in liability insurance and Delayed Maintenance repair all their gas and electric lines,,,and fully fund their employees pension liability,,,and leave a huge $1B trust fund for hidden and lied about future liabilities!

Friday, January 18, 2019

With the LA and Oakland Teacher strikes, Some may be wondering, "Teachers! So easy Anyone could do that!" Guess again.

Most of my family is/was employed in Public Education in California.
Dad, 40 yrs at a state college.
Mom, high school Home Economics cooking-sewing teacher until Dad came home from WW2,surprise!, and they started a family.
Both sisters taught for decades in Elementary Schools.

First, you need a 4 YEAR COLLEGE DEGREE. Wanna go in DEBT!?
Then a year or 2 getting your Master's TEACHING CREDENTIAL. Got 2 More yrs?? More Debt!!

Then, you pick WHICH SCHOOL DISTRICT you want to get Stuck at, as Ca. Teachers can Not freely move within the State, as they should taking their pay seniority with then. Stupid, eh?? Imaging you're a Carpenter or Mechanic or Football Player, but you lose over 10% if you move out of town in first few years. So dumb.

Then you deal with... Bad PRINCIPALS that can't be fired, and all the lousy SUPERINTENTENTS that Mantra chant, "We have to spend all this year's budget somehow, to get as much or more next year!" Dumb, eh??
Uppity clerk's, too few school nurses, no school Security Guard not 1, lousy cafeteria food for breakfast and lunch, ill mannered children abusing hazing bullying each other, and irresponsible parents who don't/can't even make sure Their kids do their homework and blame the Teachers!
And the Teacher's UNIONS are about as daily useless as the Teamsters $50/mo dues!
Still think Teaching is an "easy job"??

You have to submit a written or online published LESSON PLAN every school day for the next day. Do you write down what you are doing tomorrow in detail at your job!? The so-called Principal can drop into class anytime and check on you and your DAILY LESSON PLAN.

You may try and GRADE PAPERS during your lunch, but Dad had us kids help him often after dinner. Wanna grade papers every night for an average salary of less than $80k?? Every Realtor will laugh at your typical teacher desire to buy a house/condo costing a 30yr mortgage, costing you More than Double the house price. Do we need a GI BILL for TEACHER HOUSING??

The Principal can order you to join a COMMITTEE, no extra pay, after school. Teachers should teach, and Admin should earn their "Golden handshakes" and "Golden parachutes"!! Teachers don't get, tho deserve, $100,000+ bonuses. This is wasting public TAXES!!

These so called, easily replaced by almost any college grad, Principals can order you as a Teacher to move without help or even a hand truck all the School's INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS from one class room to another, many heavy boxes, risking popping a disc as happened to a LAUSD friend and being PERMANENTLY DISABLED. This is clearly an ancient history of abuse, so why doesn't Ca. stop it??

And the dreaded ANNUAL PARENT-TEACHER MEETING, we're Teachers politely skirt how lousy parents do a lousy job of parenting and rich parents have unrealistic expectations for all their unknown children. Carpenters, Mechanics and Airline Pilots don't suffer this Admin-shirked dirty job!

POLITICIANS could make this all so much better in California, if we only... gave them All our monthly leftover cash as Campaign Contributions;
(Just kidding.)
Want a truly lazy lying  irresponsible but overpaid and get rich quick job? Politics, in California!!
And we didn't even cover the boobs running CalPers PENSION or the lying insurance sharks selling supplement 403b TAX SHELTER to teachers who don't review and or understand every quarterly stock-bond report!
Oh, well, I feel like crying now, instead of TEACHING IN CALIFORNIA AT ANY PUBLIC SCHOOL. You??

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

We have to make Much better use of our Cal Lt Gov!! and Vice President!! Political shameful waste of talent!!

So...

Trump should just take $5B from the Bloated Defense Budget for the Mexico Fence!!

We will continue to see wasteful spending until most of Congress serves at least 2 years in the National Guard or Coast Guard or other branch of the military.

How long will Congress delay the Tax Overhaul?

How long will Congress delay Single Payer Health Care like all other advanced countries?

How long until Congress overturns Citizens United and takes payola out of politics?

How long until a Gender Equality Amendment?

How long until Corporate Felony Criminals regularly go to jail?!?

Thursday, January 10, 2019

New Governor, which Cities in California have declared Bankruptcy, like Richmond, or are on the verge, like Santa Cruz?

Please talk to us, much more than Jerry did in 16years!!!!

Glad about your team investigating DMV slack job performance in 6months.
But also please CalTrans, for wasting $6B overrun on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
And for "going through the motions" with CHP of many trucks slowing driving on our state freeway shoulders, but Not picking Anything UP!!  I see this all the time, for decades in the BayArea!

Like Gov Arnold I hope your office is very easy to call and immediate answer , or email.

Best wishes!!

Much More Expensive Robot cars!? Then Robot Soldiers!?? We Need,,,#1,Car PC to override and avoid all collisions, talking car to car!! #2, Regional car traffic control of all traffic lights, not just city by city!! #3, "Right to Privacy" amendment and Much Safer internet!! So who is making these BAD CHOICES in New Tech investing & Direction?

Bankers?
Wall Street?
A Top Secret Govt Agency!?

Yes, the Federal Tax Code must be redone by the lazy irresponsible manana manana Congress.

And we must transition to Cheaper & Better national medical care, Single Payer.

And I want a review of every deregulated industry, from airlines to trucking, to see if we are better off.

I want a national passenger railroad line, like Japan and advanced West Europe. Zero freight trains allowed!!

Wednesday, January 09, 2019

I am so Angry that California may allow the big utility to go Bankrupt instead of requiring they buy Much more insurance, 10xs 100xs, $1Trillion+ !!

Obviously to us employees, many public consumers and the politicians , this Massive increase in Minimum Business Insurance for such a reckless and irresponsible private for profit company... should have been done years, decades ago.

Thursday, January 03, 2019

Been buying Sunxxxbeam electric blankets for Decades! No more!!

My latest red plush full size e-blanket died last night after about a year.
Luckily I bought 3 at a time cuz I do like the red fuzzy!
Will Goodwill the old blanket.
But 1-2 years is too short a life, unwashed and well cared of, I think.

Previously, I had bought 3 defectives, and after a long CSR conversation, returned them.
Don't remember who paid return shipping, maybe them.
But it happened like 3 times in a row!!!

I would buy 3 or 4 e-blanket for 3 beds and 1 for traveling, yes I do spoil myself with warm sheets in cold new hotels!
Each time I had a very long conversation with their CSR and eventually... was given permission to return-exchange!

Guess I'll use CR to find a new RELIABLE "brand".
Like I did with HxxxP ink jet printers! So defective!!!!!
And Epxxxson printers!
Now luv Brothers so much.