What memo?

June 11, 2010-San Francisco civil workers have concurred several black eye incidents this year...”San Francisco Examiner” newspaper had written several articles on the accountability of city gardeners---some are not at the assigned park location cutting grass. The precious MUNI drivers voted down the latest labor concessions, which other city trade unions had accepted to help the troubled City financial crisis. The City Charter guarantee annual salary increase to ensure the drivers to be the Nation 2nd highest paid, while ridership suffer service cutbacks---longer waiting time between buses, pack buses if they do arrive or the worst...buses that pass stop!

Finally last month in May the city parking control officers made into “You Tube.” One video had two parking control “Interceptor” vehicles each parked in front of red zone/fire hydrant on adjacent corners during a personal timeout. The second video was widely broadcasted by the local TV stations of another parking control vehicle parked in a yellow zone, while the officer was shopping at a Thrift Store.

“San Francisco Chronicle” newspaper asked the Municipal Transportation Agency for comment. John Haley, the MTA’s director of transit operations responded:
“...it is against agency policy for employees to park illegally...he plans to reissue the policy to remind employees of the rule...We wouldn’t tolerate a double standard and we wouldn’t want the public to think we do.”

Today at 8:55AM on the corner of Stockton & Pacific I noticed a parking control vehicle parked at the red zone/fire hydrant. By the time I came back around at 9:03AM to take the picture someone placed black floor mats on the left of the vehicle to cover the fire hydrant. The parking officer was nowhere in sight tagging vehicles around the area (the ticket issuing scanner on vehicle front dashboard), therefore the Wizard surmised that the officer is either shopping or eating breakfast. He/She just didn’t get John Haley memo---it is against agency policy for employees to park illegally!