Burger King employee pours oil down storm drain

[OneEyeJack]

Originally Posted By: BRZED
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
These are minimum wage people. That job title does not require thinking. The vocabulary only requires thing like, "would like fries with that?" and "hot sauce?" and other such phrases. Once they wise up and switch to welfare, disability and EBT cards the vocabulary changes. They they learn, "it's my back", "I'm stressed out", and "no speaky engrish".

Blaming them for dumping cooking oil down the drain would be like expecting them to produce a birth certificate.




Do you know if the general manager who was fired of this is one of those "no speaky Engrish," and as by you implited, illegal and stupid minimum wage earners? Also, do you know why he was fired?


Where in my post did I claim minimum wage earners were stupid? You might infer entitled, manipulative, lazy, lacking ambition, self appointed victims, high school drop outs, college graduates, illegals, senior citizens, retired people, women, minorities, Caucasians, immigrants, ambassadors from the south, ex-cons or teenagers but not stupid. Most of these people follow the news. That means they are update on the latest messages from our government which means they are informed and know what's good for them.

But, worry not. Raising the minimum wage will wipe out a lot of these jobs and the companies that employee them. Companies like Coco's Restaurants are quietly closing down stores as fast as they can in anticipation of the raising of the minimum wage and difficulties with healthcare. Coco's has already closed about 150 locations. Potential minimum wage manipulation and Obamacare together are having their intended affect.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Originally Posted By: Stelth
(anyone remember Burger Chef?).


I remember going to Burger Chef when I was a little kid back in the mid 70s. McDonalds bought its location shortly thereafter.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Me,I respect ANY one who works. The worthless waste of space losers I will never respect are the scum-bag layabouts who won't work and expect us (the working class) to support them via welfare,EBT,etc. Just a waste of life imo and if they won't work,they should be left to starve and die,or eat grass and dirt (as long as the grass and dirt isn't grass and dirt I payed for).

 

[Kruse]

Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
Originally Posted By: Stelth
(anyone remember Burger Chef?).


I remember going to Burger Chef when I was a little kid back in the mid 70s.


I think I remember the advertisements: "Burger Chef and Jeff. They're incrediburgible!" or something like that.
However, it's funny that I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Originally Posted By: Kruse
I think I remember the advertisements: "Burger Chef and Jeff. They're incrediburgible!" or something like that.
However, it's funny that I can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday.


Haha I'd forgotten about Jeff! And they had meals that were like Happy Meals that came with a toy :^)

 

[rjundi]

Originally Posted By: firemachine69


Can you state your qualifications to say that they "never" intersect? My Operator-In-Training certification test said otherwise...


Correct they do intersect in old designs. Typically they have structures where if one floods over it spills into the other. A simple wall separates the storm from sanitary sewer.

Either case you are not allowed to dump cooking oil down either one.

 

[rjundi]

Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack


But, worry not. Raising the minimum wage will wipe out a lot of these jobs and the companies that employee them. Companies like Coco's Restaurants are quietly closing down stores as fast as they can in anticipation of the raising of the minimum wage and difficulties with healthcare. Coco's has already closed about 150 locations. Potential minimum wage manipulation and Obamacare together are having their intended affect.




How about no one wants to visit them anymore. Who cares if a [censored] old restaurant chain closes down another one fills the gap with something folks want. Associating it with those political issues is just that, fuel for someones fire.

 

[CourierDriver]

This thread is really really interesting...................

 

[SwampSurvivor]

In my city (Syracuse NY) they are shared somehow. When it rains heavily, we end up dumping raw sewage right into the lake ... Because the whole system gets overloaded. This isn't a "new" city and we're broke - so I don't see it changing any time soon.

When I worked for McDonald's , we had a separate grease dumpster that would get pumped out every now and then. There's a special cart that attaches to the grease trap. It allows you to dump the grease trap on the grills without a huge mess. Then you wheel it outside, hook it up to the grease dumpster and just dump it in. We also had special carts that would drain the fryers and then wheel it out and dump it in the dumpster.

Pretty sure dumping them down the drain wasn't something we did.

 

[rslifkin]

Rochester has the same shared sewer / storm drain setup, but they have a set of massive storage tunnels to handle the excess from heavy rains. It just fills up the tunnels and then the treatment plants can catch up when the rain stops.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Don't go to the Destiny mall after a heavy rain ... That end of the lake stinks!

 

[CourierDriver]

Its 5 o'clock somewhere,,,u all have a cold one.....

 

[firemachine69]

Originally Posted By: rjundi
Originally Posted By: firemachine69


Can you state your qualifications to say that they "never" intersect? My Operator-In-Training certification test said otherwise...


Correct they do intersect in old designs. Typically they have structures where if one floods over it spills into the other. A simple wall separates the storm from sanitary sewer.

Either case you are not allowed to dump cooking oil down either one.




Further to add, can anyone tell me what city has infrastructure less than ten years old? Twenty?

The current story is "patch and try to keep up". Having unicorn delusions that isn't what's happening, well... I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell.

(And I say this as a public sector worker who couldn't stomach a 50% property tax increase myself!)

 

[Hokiefyd]

Originally Posted By: Panzerman
First of all the Storm system and a sanitary system aren't even remotely the same animal. Storm systems are for rain water/branches,leaves and all kind of debris. Sanitary system, well we all know what that is and its much smaller. They never interlink and a sanitary system leads to a waste water treatment plant. A storm system leads to a water retention area where it perks down into the ground. That being said and explained. All this stuff about oil being super harmful to the environment is propelled by a younger generation that really don't know but figure. I can tell you when I was younger my father would have me oil down the dirt alley by our house with used motor oil, gallons of it and the city boro would come out with a oil tanker and open the valves and oil the entire fairgrounds which was all dirt. It never killed the trees or even the grass. I ve heard all the one drop of oil contaminates a zillion gallon. Truth is the ground is a pretty good filter till it gets down and isn't oil natural. I can guarantee you that there are a lot worse things in a storm system than cooking oil. I once watched a new truck dealership drain a radiator of a tri-axle in a storm drain. Believe me that cooking oil wont hurt a thing. Its just new generation environuts freaking out over stuff they don't know about.


Lots of stuff going on in this post. Allow me to clarify some of it.

First off, I never said that sanitary sewer systems and storm water systems are the same thing. I used one as an example of what can happen when stuff is dumped where it shouldn't be. That said, they sometimes DO interconnect. I hope that's not the case here. As I said in my post, I hope the cooking oil he poured down the storm drain was able to find an outfall quickly, before it congealed into a mess in the system somewhere.

Secondly, you'd be amazed at what some petroleum will do to groundwater. Especially used oil with metals in it. Sure, we used to oil the ground to manage dust. We also used to bury our lead acid batteries. As we better understand the implications of our actions, we find better ways of doing things.

 

[coolbird101]

That B.K. is 10 minutes from my house, pretty disappointing to see this. I am sure this is not the first time, just the first time they were caught on camera. Can only imagine what that slop does to lift stations or whatever means of travel these drains use. Not to mention the possible environmental impact this could have, which may be minimal, but we really have no idea how long they have been doing this or if this is more common practice than we realize.