No resting allowed. We need a foreman with a whip out there to teach those proles how to work. What a waste of my money! As a member of the privileged class, who never had to perform manual labor, I am appalled! How can you just stand around and not be constantly working for 8 hours a day?! HURUMPPHFH

I can agree that workers should work and from both videos uploaded above I see that the "Sanitation worker" is shoveling and doing his assigned task which seems to be clearing a school. As for the other workers they are either hired help or community service helpers. I am standing up for the blue colored worker doing his job. and as for garbage pick up I don't know what your regular refuse collection day is but from what I've seen it was picked up on a regular Monday schedule.also take in to consideration they're picking up double even triple the regular weight plus extra for the holiday, in hazardous conditions and even in the night darkness.

I witnessed the sanitation worker pick at the snow and shovel a bit, but beyond that he hardly managed the $12 an hr temporary snow laborers. I wish I could get paid $12 an hour for standing around, talking on my cell phone, and laughing with my buds. Isn't this a waste of taxpayer money? Why wait so long and why are there still mounds of snow all over my street and the rest of Brooklyn?

My days are Saturday and Wednesday. Therefore Saturday's garbage has been piling the longest. I have not seen one truck picking up garbage in Sheepshead Bay or Gravesend.
God Bless the blue collared workers, the job would have been easier for them if Bloomie let the NYFD call a snow emergency.

Most likely your garbage will be picked up on Wednesday either at midnight or 6:30 am. I agree with the snow emergency call. I have a lot of friends in that neighborhood you may not see them (garbage trucks) but they are out there.

Let's hope. Happy,Healthy to you and yours.

Well, it's Wednesday after 5PM, no trash has been picked up within a half mile (or more) radius of my block in Gravesend.Sheepshead bay has also been ignored. The last scheduled pick up for this area was Christmas day.
The last actual pick up was the Wednesday before Christmas. That make what, two weeks?

Sheepshead Bay has mounds of snow and plenty of crosswalks that are still not passable. This is today 1/4/11.

Man power! Either they clean every last bit of white powder from the very ground or they start to pick up the garbage that is lingering behind many days and that all citizens are complaining is starting to smell. They don't have the men and trucks to do all: Pick u the regular garbage (25 trucks, 50 men) bus stops, corners, clear out the piled snow on the sides of the streets and roads, cross walks, schools, icy conditions with salt, not too mention recycling has to be picked up another (25 trucks 50 men). there is a new snow storm with its eyes set on NY and there are only about 100 guys in the garage with day and night shifts split. Be truly happy you don't live in a city where a storm like this would have buried them for weeks.

I am not suggesting they clear any more snow. The article is about workers doing nothing. Rather than do nothing clean the damn crosswalks.
These workers shown are not about picking up garbage.
I am in a city where the garbage is buried for more than a week.
Pick-up began yesterday, where? Give me a break and do not try and defend this joke. Politicians are walking around with their heads up their asses.

Video #2 .

This video shows the NYDS leader and his crew picking at the snow and standing around. Were they here merely to be visible on the streets? A day later my neighborhood still has mounds of high snow that weren't even touched by the large crew.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

We live on Baltic between Smith and Hoyt in Boerum Hill. The first plows didn't visit our street until late Wednesday. Pathetic.

these guys are welcome to stop by my block...still plenty of snow there

This is really just a joke, right?

How do they decide who stands around and who actually works? Seems like an inequitable distribution of labor there. If more than half the guys are standing around, I sure wouldn't be one of the suckers actually doing something.

Maybe they lost a bet.

Why not pick up the mounds of trash already?

This is why you don't make budget cuts knowingly right before winter snow plow. That's like cutting the army before you would go into battle.

Maybe because that would require a garbage truck to put the trash into? This is just a bunch of guys with shovels who were dropped off there by a van.

Picking up garbage and cleaning up a snow storm are separate tasks. Plows plow, Spreaders spread and plow. Collection trucks collect. Hence every man has his assigned orders to do all at once would require more men and equipment, Which are fearless budget cutters in voted office are not going to supply. Blame the bureaucrats and politics not the blue colored worker just trying to feed his family and make a nice life in a better municipality.

I saw a crew out digging a bus stop. The catch? There is no longer a bus there (the Q79 was canceled).