Better late than never

It's been too long since we posted last, mostly due to extended vacations, grueling work schedules and late nights down at the 'ol watering hole. Sherwood and I will try to make a better effort to keep things fresh, but you have to understand, with schedules like ours, it's pretty difficult to juggle everything.

With that being said, I stumbled across this gem of an article in the Buffalo News today, regarding the dress code for city building inspectors. According to the article, some of the city's 60 building inspectors were wearing some less than professional attire to work. Buffalo Inspections chief James Comerford, said this is a more stringent dress code, but is a long way from requiring them to wear uniforms. He goes on to tell lawmakers that some of the inspectors "were dressing like they were going to the beach."

Just the fact that this is a story shows how screwed up the city is.

Possible Mayoral candidate Mickey Kearns brought up the possiblilty that the inspectors should wear uniforms, however, president of the inspectors' union, Kevin Fitzgerald said the union would have considered it, but the city didn't agree to pay for them.

The article goes on to point out that the inspectors will receive raises that total nearly 20 percent by 2012--none of which I would imagine has the possibility of being used to but new clothes on their own.

I have worked in a number of different places, some with a uniform policy, some with a dress code, all of which required the individual to provide themselves with the proper attire.