Posted by Goose on February 16, 2010 at 10:30:45 from (67.63.68.13):
In Reply to: Re: OT,saw on Yahoo posted by Allan In NE on February 16, 2010 at 08:48:59:
I'll expound on my above rant about how small towns operate.
Thirty years ago, I took a job as Buildings and Grounds Supervisor for a public school district in a town 14 miles down the road from the town where I had grown up, where I had gone to school, and where I was living at the time. The district consisted of three campuses in two towns. I took over the job from a local fellow who had retired, and who had done the same things, the same way, with the same people for 25 years.
I began using new technology, new techniques, and upgraded the equipment. Were the local taxpayers impressed because I was doing the job more efficiently and saving them money in the process? Not on your life. Nothing I did was right. I lasted five years, and when I left the only time I could recall that someone had said anything positive about my efforts was once before a football game, one of the board members told me the football field looked nice.
My successor on the job was a local man who had gone through the same school system and was, in fact, still living in the same house he grew up in three blocks from the high school. The way he ran things was an exact continuum of the way I had. I know this for a fact because for the next several years he called me occasionally for advice. (I had no bone to pick with him personally, I always played it straight).
The local public was impressed with the way he was doing the job to a point of writing letters to the editor of the local paper praising him.
Now, people have commented over the years that I'm easy to talk to and not hard to get along with. So, really the only difference in this scene is the fact that both my predecessor and my successor were lifelong residents of that same town and I wasn't, even though I grew up and went to school only 14 miles away.
And that, my friends, is the way small towns work, whether anyone wants to look in the mirror and admit it or not.
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