Waste diary

Evening washroom closings

May 10 2010, 8.50 pm: a city truck drives quickly into Dufferin Grove Park, drives right around the fieldhouse, stops for a moment, then drives quickly out again. There are two staff in the truck. Probably they came to close the washrooms. Only the washrooms have not yet been opened for the season. Are these two driving into lots of other parks where the washrooms are also still closed? Probably.

$29 an hour plus 26% benefits?

Computer waste

The IT people have ordered new point-of-sale computers for every rec centre. They can only process fees, nothing else. Until now, the rec staff assigned to taking in fees could also do other computer work, e.g. schedules, because s/he was using an ordinary computer. But it may be possible for credit cards to be hacked into, so the multi-purpose computers will all be replaced by single-purpose point-of-sale computers. That means the staff will sit with nothing to do when there is no one coming to pay.

The centres can keep their multipurpose computers but IT will no support them, i.e fix them when there's trouble. The centres have to take that out of their program budget.