A change with the Weather!
Again as usual on every Wednesday morning since sometime last Summer, a State of Oregon owned vehicle has again come to my neighborhood loaded with a Driver, a Guide and a severely MR/DD person to deliver the StatesmanJournal's weekly Shopper News/Ads, door-to-door.
However, with the cold rain/snow mix the routine has changed a bit with the driver moving the vehicle to within a few steps of where the Weekly Shopper Ads were to be dropped.
This extra effort allowed the Foot Guide (State employee?) who normally walks to each door with the client, to remain in the cozy warmth of the vehicle and yet direct the MR/DD Client to each drop point.
My guess is they are now teaching the MR/DD Client how to Work Smart. That with demonstrating how effort reduction can bring greater rewards, comfort wise at least.
I hate to imagine what these two able bodied MR/DD attendants do with themselves the rest of the week.
11:00 Update:
I now find the MR/DD'd delivery effort fell short with only reaching half the distance of where the State vehicle parked and the residence doors. Oh bother!
The best part of the discovery was finding the size of the paper is less than half of what it was not that long ago. Who knows, with this rate-of-decline the State employees might lose their ad-paper delivery jobs and we taxpayers may enjoy some tax-money savings, but I doubt it.
However, with the cold rain/snow mix the routine has changed a bit with the driver moving the vehicle to within a few steps of where the Weekly Shopper Ads were to be dropped.
This extra effort allowed the Foot Guide (State employee?) who normally walks to each door with the client, to remain in the cozy warmth of the vehicle and yet direct the MR/DD Client to each drop point.
My guess is they are now teaching the MR/DD Client how to Work Smart. That with demonstrating how effort reduction can bring greater rewards, comfort wise at least.
I hate to imagine what these two able bodied MR/DD attendants do with themselves the rest of the week.
11:00 Update:
I now find the MR/DD'd delivery effort fell short with only reaching half the distance of where the State vehicle parked and the residence doors. Oh bother!
The best part of the discovery was finding the size of the paper is less than half of what it was not that long ago. Who knows, with this rate-of-decline the State employees might lose their ad-paper delivery jobs and we taxpayers may enjoy some tax-money savings, but I doubt it.
posted by Localfella at 9:16 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home