Dear Friend...they were an unusual trio

... that I encountered at the laundromat this past week.

As I pull my car up, there is a large window and a red-headed woman is standing there in a black bra.  She calmly puts on a shirt.  I can tell there are at least two other people in the laundromat.  Darn, I thought I had gotten up early enough to miss the crack-heads and undesirables. NOT.

Oh well, I walk in and find a black man sitting down using the free wi-fi because he probably has a "free" phone that the Government gives out, which costs the taxpayers A LOT of unnecessary taxpayer money and has been hidden in the agricultural bill somewhere (I digress, that's another story). The red-headed (from a bottle) woman, her open purple suitcase on the floor that I have to step over, which she apologized for, and a not-so-good-looking, very short Latino in a grey sweatsuit.  As I pass the corner of the laundry folding table, which is full of the red-heads stuff.  To include, a .22 deringer on the corner.  My first thought was to swipe the gun so it couldn't be used against me.  But its most likely that would have caused a ruckus.  I left it alone.

I walk to my favorite washing machine, which is all the way in the back.  Stuff my items in it and find I am short a quarter.  What??? I have to do this all over again.  Twice the danger, yay.

After I get my laundry started, I go to my car to sit and knit a mitten.  As I walk by the red-head once again.  She is putting on some red lace-up boots with at least a 5 inch heel.  I have no idea how she walks around town with those shoes on and a suitcase in her hand.  Wait.... isn't that a song or something??

I survived and have clean clothes for another week.

Send me all the news,

L

Dear Friend...it was a clean shot?

I was recently speaking with my masseuse and he was speaking about how he had to come to terms with always wanting and needing to seeking his Dad's approval.  I said "don't we all?" 

I went on to say no matter how much of an idiot he (dad) is we all want his approval.  I then started laughing and told my story.  Stating how my very smart and intelligent cousins who work for NASA think he is a hero and I just think he is an idiot who I no longer need approval from or speak to.  What kind of person would I be if I need approval from such an idiot like that?

Here's my dad's true story...

It was a clean shot that missed the bone entirely.  I believe they call it a clean through and through.  Or something like that.

My dad actually accidentally shot himself in his leg through his main artery while being stinking drunk, while drinking and driving and waving a loaded handgun around and terrorizing his young wife #2 and his two young boys.  Causing his own life threatening incident.

My cousins think he is the greatest hero because he drove himself to the hospital and saved himself.  What kind of crap is that??

At the hospital, his wife due to religious reasons refused to sign the paperwork to give him a blood transfusion because my dad being stinking drunk was not allowed to sign the paperwork.  Oh, man you can not make this shit up, right???  Real life is so ironic!!

The doctor informed young wife #2 that this refusal was likening the doctor operating with one hand tied behind his back.  My dad did not like hearing this and leaned over grabbed the paperwork and said "I'll sign it!" and signed the paperwork.The doctor went with this.  The doctor is lucky my dad lived.

I later saw the scars of this injury.  It was vicious looking.  I wonder what lies he told about it? (he loved to lie too).

I bet he started with, "it was a clean shot..."

Send me all the news,

L

PS dear old dad liked throwing knives too.

PPS dad once accidentally shot me in the eye with an arrow.  He was drinking then too.  He told my mom that he had pulled the arrow back and lightly poked me in the eye because I was standing right behind him  My mom believed him. Really??? I'm not that tall at 5yrs old.  You think all that screaming and peeing my pants is from a light poke in the eye??? with an elbow??? 

What I was really doing was playing behind the target. Yeah, not too smart on my part either.  I was only 5yrs old. (insert shrug - I think in my mind I was playing cowboys and Indians). and Really??? Mom believed that shit???  I guess you do when you are desperate and married to an idiot that loves to lie...and drink.

Dear Friend... I'm sadly not a unicorn that spews glitter from his/her...

 Horn.

I recently went to an interview for the company.  I am clearly qualified for this position and because of who I am...The One and Only Woman That Is Encouraged by Leadership to be Hated, I simply do not qualify, no matter what. EVEER!!

Crap.

Send me all the news,

L

Dear Friend ...targets - part 2

This part is about me (sometimes Big T too) Gosh this gets tiring.

I'll start from the most recent incident to the oldest.  I'm going to include other violations here to so we can find them all in one place.

Here we go:

42 Let's Violate Ls Privacy by having a big mouth to former employees May 2, 2024.

OMG, I'm at an interview and I have to deal with a former employee of more than a year and a half, informing me that I am under investigation by the company! How the heck does he know?  And why does he know? God! don't these men from the company have anything better to do???  I called my TMIII, CC, and informed him of my rights being violated.  I'm certain he just shrugged and went on with his day.  But him and others are preparing for when I return to make my life a living hell, just because they can.

41. You're Not Good Enough and Never Will Be, Even Though You ARE Qualified to Promote Denver incident March 2024

Because we're looking for a unicorn.

40. The Sweeper Clean-Out incidents - Jan 30 and 31, 2024

39. the Hostile Interview with the company in Boulder incident 1/29/24

OMG, it could not have been more obvious to me that this place in Boulder was hostile.  The TMIII was texting during my interview.  That TMIII was VERY hostile. I got my letter of rejection before I left the parking lot.  AND I AM QUALIFIED. ugh and yuck.  But I think I dodged a bullet on that one.

38. The Be Friendlier and LG is hard of hearing incidents - Jan 16, 2024

Be Friendlier!!! Seriously???  I bet if you are a man you are NEVER told to be friendlier.  And LG, you really need to listen better.

37. the One-Ton incident  Jan 2024- you cannot use...

you cannot use the one-ton no matter what - I called the TMIII to check if this was true.  It's NOT. I asked and he said "no" three timse while laughing, which means I CAN use the one-ton. these guys are pathetic. ugh

36. Ignore the Woman's Direct Question to Me BUT She Damn Well Better Answer Mine incident - Nov 2023 

I asked Newbie TempM P69 a direct question, which he pointedly ignored (he had just ask me a question and I answered it.  He was looking right at me when I asked my question.) LG was there and saw this and LG answered me for him.  Who can blame Newbie TempM when he was told all kinds of incorrect information about me and told to stay away from me or else.  LG can hear this correctly but not when I'm speaking to him (LG) directly for the Jan 2024 incident.  How ironic is that???

35 The Blue Powder Leather Gloves incident - Oct 27, 2023

34 The Hotbox and Potholing incidents - June 2023

This one makes me sick to my stomach just thinking about it.  I was told to move a truck that had the bed up in the air with a guy in the bed that was knocking down 1400 degree asphalt in the hot box.  I refused.  There is no way I am moving a truck with a guy hanging over a hot box that could easily fall in.  NO WAY. and I should never have been asked to do so in the first place. Two TMIIs told me to do this. 

You guys are out of your minds!!  Instead they told 39-3 to move it and he did and told Junior, the guy in the truck bed, to hang on.  REALLY???

All went well.  I swear God watches out for fools and children.

- the pothole incident was Junior decided to pull the yellow service brake while still moving with me in the back seat.  I was thrown to the floor and thankful he didn't break my arm.  He got "talked" to. BiG WUP!  I will say he wrapped himself around the steering wheel pretty good when he did this.  I'm surprised he didn't break a rib.

33. The Let's Talk About Other CDOT Co-Workers Sex Lives incident - May 17, 2023

I told the boys to stop talking about other co-workers and their sex lives 3 times.  I finally left the Tweener in a rain storm.  REALLY, you have nothing better to do, losers?

32 The Friday Crew Harassment incidents - May 2023 - Sept 2023

31 The Blade Change Request incident - March 2023

30 You'll Never Be Qualified to Promote incident Feb 2023

but instead we will promote the guy who knows less and whom you will need to train to be your TMII. Crap. and no thanks.

29 Never Speak to L or You'll be Written Up incident - Jan 2023

I was told by A that his TMII informed him (A) that if he (A) was ever seen speaking to me he would be written up. A informed me that nobody was going to tell him who he could and could not speak to.  Needless to say, A was written up A LOT.

28. the Junior - Back the Truck and Trailer into Senior coverup incident Jan 2023

Junior got to practically run over Senior and both men denied the incident happened.  The Deputy Director was informed about the incident and he (DD) chose to ignore the incident.  Because a backing incident is serious and its even more serious when you run over a person.  Senior limped around the shop for weeks.  Man, that had to be painful.

28 The Parting Shot - Fraudulent docs incident - Jan 16, 2023

27 The Headlight - Dead Battery incidents - Jan 6, 2023 (May 2022 to Jan 2023)

26 The Senior Had a Bad Day, Which He's Allowed incident - Dec 1, 2022

25 The Dirty Pants incident - Nov 2022

24 The Hydraulic Hose Week incidents - Oct 2022

23 the Junior and Senior Brand New Snow Plow incidents - Jan 2022

Junior ran his brand new snow plow front plow so much he ran it 5 inches into the mowboard. For those of you who do not know that is A LOT.  This is a $7000 cost.  He was never written up for it and never stood up in the safety meeting telling us what he did and how he would prevent this from happening again. Senior ran the wing of a brand new snow plow into a curb and twisted it really bad. and Ditto - he did not have to stand and testify when the rest of us are required to do so.

22 the Ltc Ops tells 69-1 to Run Across 3 Lanes of Traffic to Help Move a Car Off The Road incident - 2021 Jan 21

21 The Mag Chloride 60K Gallons Dump incident - 2020 Nov 10

And illegally dump it at Sullivan Hill.  Yikes I feel for the housing project below this.

20 The Beheaded Plastic Toy Lizard incidents - June & July 2020 (which ruined the windshield wiper arm to my personal car).

19 the John Deere I-25 Mirror incident - 2020 Aug 5

Junior gets ran into by a bus while driving the JD mower and both Senior and Junior denied it ever happened.  Keep in mind when a minority TMII gets hit by a car the minority TMII got written up.

18 The Shiny Screws Beneath My Personal Car Tires incidents - April & May 2020

17 the Safety Stand Down 'IT'S THE TITS' meeting - 2020 Feb 27

This one is disgusting.  And even more so now as the Ltc Ops who said "its the tits" three times in a safety stand down meeting in front of 44 people to include higher management, is now a Deputy Director.      Dis---gus--ting.  But that's the kind of person that gets promoted around here.  SA later informed me that that statement was a compliment.  Oh M G!  Talk about gaslighting.  That kind of statement is, never has been, or will be  a compliment or ok to say whether in mixed company or not!!!  Are there any decent people that work here???

16 The One Cuss Word Write-up incident - Jan 20, 2020

15 the If You Want a Good Laugh Hire the Handicapped incident - 2020 Jan 14

CC67 said this.

14 The its OK if I Cuss but NOT You incident - 2019 Dec 30

CC67 told CCTMIII to F-off several times and everyone laughed -- I did not.                                            So disrespectful its disgusting.

13 The Time Card incident - 2019 DEC 11

First time of many to come.  My timecard was changed without my permission and I was also never notified which all the men are notified but not me.

12 The Vac Truck incident Nov 2019 

This one's a good one. My TMII and I were doing night inspections.  I noticed the Vac Truck was out in the parking lot. November gets cold at night. It should never be in the parking lot. It should always be parked inside at night because it has pumps and things on it that will freeze and cause costly damage.  I said lets put that truck inside it will only take a minute. I was informed that the guys know what they are doing and to mind my own business.  I stated it will only take us 10 minutes to move that truck into one of P75s bays and one of their trucks out.  Mind your own business.  Needless to say that Vac trucks pumps froze and caused $25,000 worth of damage and never fixed.  THIS COULD HAVE BEEN EASILY PREVENTED!!!

Maybe the guys from P08 did not pick this truck up on purpose so that we would get a new vac truck?  Stuff like that is done. We did not get a new truck.  The guy from P09 who left it out was written up for this incident.  He was told the P08 would be picking the truck up that day, which is why he left it out. Of NOTE: the guy from P09 who was written up is Latino.

11 The You Should Only Consider Speaking When Spoken to and Maybe Not Even Then incident Nov 2019

10 SA Wing Coverup incident - 2019 Oct 30

SA not written up.  Man o Man he put a major dent into the wing.  SA told me it was a manhole cover.  What a laugh.  It was the guardrail going south just before Duckwood.  That guardrail is now a cement rail.  But a wing incident is serious.

9 Senior Backs the Semi incident - 2019 Oct 10

...and loses 1000gal of Mag Chloride on the shop tarmac.  Caused damage to the trailer and not written up.

8 The Castle Rock Drunkin Party Confidentiality Breach  incident- August 2019

7 The Homeless Camp Picker incident - June 20, 2019

6 The I'm Not Allowed to Speak to the Safety Officer incident - May 2019

5  The Medical Privacy Violation incident - March 19, 2019

4 The Hydraulic Hose (beginning) incidents - March 2019 to Oct 2022

3 the Take Care of Monument's Road During a Snowstorm While They Take a 2 Hour Coffee and Dinner Break incident- Dec 2018

2 The Transfer incident - April 2018 (which was the beginning of my downfall when you have an RTD sit in on the interviews to make certain that the interviews are fair - the Ltc Ops took offense to this. Well, wouldn't you? Obviously, there is a known hiring problem for this to happen because RTDs do not sit in on lowly interviews like mine - EVER).

1. The Happy Canyon incident - July 2017 (this one's a funny one. The boys in Castle Rock got into BIG trouble for this one. And its the last time I was ever treated decently at the company).

NOTE - in all of these incidents it was found that they were my fault because I did not do my job well enough and/or because I didn't speak up or I tampered with the evidence as in the Blue Powder incident.  Who, I ask is ever that perfect???

and of course, HR found that there is "no recourse" - wow, talk about stating the obvious.  

Send me all the news,

L

PS - I am sadly, most certain I'll be adding to this list.  

PPS - I may come back later and describe these in more detail or a link to where I did.

 

Dear Friend...targets anyone?

I stated earlier that my truck was a target of hatred as I, myself am.

BIG T targets of hate:

1. Some man left a salsa packet in the defrost area out of sight.  What does this do, you ask?  Welll... in winter the salsa packet will freeze and defrost and if not on the first time of freeze, defrost the packet will eventually break and, you guessed it, the salsa oozes down into the defrost area and YOU CAN NEVER GET THE SALSA SMELL OUT OF YOUR TRUCK!!  NEVER!  You have the luxurious smell of throwup for the rest of the trucks lifetime of use, which is a minumum of 30-40 years.

This is very hateful.  

Lucky for me, I clean my truck constantly and found the salsa before it broke and ooozed.

WHAT KINDA CRAP IS THAT???  

2. Big T became hard to start.  This truck is NEVER hard to start.  I mean NEVER.  I was confused.  The batteries were NOT old.  I checked everything constantly.  Even the mechanic had no clue.  Well...

And then one day in January of 2023, Janurary 6 to be precise, I was called in for oncall.  It was a Friday.  I came in and as I was going out I was called to "stand down."  I didn't have to go out.  So I stayed at work because it didn't make sense to leave and come back.  R was there at his bay door smoking.  I walked over and spoke with him.  As I was speaking with him, what do I notice?  the lights to Big T have been left on? WTF???  I make the statement to R, "what the heck are my lights doing on to my truck??? This doesn't make sense."  

I head to the key lock box to see if the keys are in the box as R heads out to the truck and finds the keys in Big T in the "on" position with lights on.  We were not expecting to use the truck for at least 2 weeks.  The batteries were stone cold dead.  This would have been the biggest drag to be charging my truck during a snow storm when I needed to use him immediately.  Which of course was the reason for the hate-filled action of leaving the lights on overnight.

The man (I like to call him junior) who was doing this came in early to turn the lights off and put the keys back in the lock box.  I watched him come in.  I wish I had been smart enough to leave things alone and catch him.  But he's tricky.  I spoke later to A of junior's patrol and A said, "why do you think he's been coming in early?"  "It's to do something to you or the equipment you use."

Number 2 is actually 2-20 numbers. Because this hate crime was done consistently over a period of months and months.

3. Hydraulic hoses disconnected - this happens randomly over a period of years.  Yes, that is years. Although for one whole week in October of 2022 every hose on the sander were disconnected for that week.

Number 3 is actually 20 - 40 numbers over a period of years.

WTF - this is a major hate crime from some man. It's a crime because it's purposely and deliberately places me in a dangerous situation. Some of the disconnections happens after I've done my pre-trip.  HR blamed me for not doing my pre-trip correctly.  Hey, numbskull --- I can't find the problem if I've already done the pretrip.  YOU MEAN I HAVE TO PRETRIP MY PRETRIP???!!!

F@@@554@@@@CK!!!!

Wanna know what HR determined, "there is no recourse."  NO SHIIIT SHERLOCK!!!

funny thing, the man, quit disconnecting them after I had done my pretrip.  He did the "courtesy" of disconnecting them the night before.

Do you know how many years it took management to speak out against this hate crime???  AND I'M THE ONE WHO HAD TO REQUEST THAT THEY SAY SOMETHING!!!

FIVE YEARS!!!

F@#$%CK!!!

AND THEN...the D Sup minimized the whole thing by stating "it was a joke between two guys that went bad."  WTF!!!!  DSup obviously knows more than he's saying if he "knows" this.

I think I've had enough of writing for today.  I have an upset stomache after writing this.  The last one I wrote about being "employee of the month", I cried for hours after.

Send me all the news,

L

Dear Friend ...be friendlier, part 2

Here's part 2 of the "be friendlier" talk:

I was told there were several complaints about me.  Keep in my I have not been present at the company for 3 months due to an injury.  I have been back only 3 days.  UGH

I was told LG made a complaint.

Here's the real conversation:

I went to P37 bay and LG was there; I asked LG if he knew where R was; he informed me he did not know; I said ok, thanks, and walked away.

Later, I was in the office working on the computer and LG came in and informed me that he had found R. That R was in the mechanic shop.  I said, "ok, thanks.  That's not surprising as R is always working on something, I won't interrupt as it's not that important."  

Meaning that what I wanted to speak with R about wasn't important and that whatever R was doing was more important than what I needed and that I would not interrupt R.

I was told that LG stated that I was "keeping track" of R a lead coworker and that I informed LG that whatever R was doing was not important.

LG had informed the bosses the exact opposite of my statements!  What a snake!

This brings new heights to why women should NOT work in an all male workplace because they(MEN) can't even get a conversation correct!! 

I am speechless!!

Send me all the news and make certain that you pay attention and tell me the REAL story!

L

PS  Or maybe men should be barefoot and pregnant and quit speaking in the workplace.