Bloomberg To City Workers: Screw You

No other way to read this story other than a) Bloomberg is an asshole and b) Bloomberg is a hypocrite.

See what you think:

During last week's snowstorm the Mayor closed all non-emergency government offices and announced that "New York City almost never takes a snow day, but today is one of those rare days." What he forgot to mention, apparently, was that if you didn't show up for work you would lose a day of leave. Sort of. If workers can provide a reason why they weren't at work, they won't be docked. Still, you can imagine how well this is going over.

And today Bloomberg managed to make it even worse by returning to his old prickly form when questioned about the flip-flop by the press.“I don’t know how you were brought up, I was always brought up that you had an obligation to work,” Hizzoner told one reporter before adding that “maybe it’s different in your world.”

Apparently workers should have recognized that once the weather started getting nicer on Thursday they should have dropped their sleds and come into work. Explained Bloomberg: “When you look out the window and it’s not as bad as you thought it was going to be, maybe a bell should go off and say, ‘Hey, maybe I can get to work today.’”

City workers are not warming to his logic though. One complained to the Post that "The mayor doesn’t get a do-over to say, ‘Well, the storm wasn’t as bad as we thought, so you could have come in,’ after he’s already told everyone not to come in. What was I supposed to have done? Not listen to the mayor and to have come in, even though I was expecting my office to be closed based upon what he was saying publicly?"

Meanwhile, the city is trying to shrug off the issue as no big deal. According to Bloomberg “all they’ve got to do is say they couldn’t get in. It’s not that hard.”

Here, let me handle this.

Here's a form letter everybody can send to Bloomberg:

Dear Moneybags:

YOU told them NOT to come in.

Then around 11 AM, YOU changed your mind and decided to dock them a day.

Which is just HYPOCRITICAL crap.

THEY shouldn't have to write anything.

YOU gave them the DAY OFF.

YOU should have to write why YOU are such an arrogant asshole.

Or copy on the blackboard one hundred times the following:

I WILL NOT BE AN ARROGANT ASSHOLE
I WILL NOT BE AN ARROGANT ASSHOLE
I WILL NOT BE AN ARROGANT ASSHOLE...