#maintenance worker

And I know all my blue collar mutuals know this shit. But I need to tell those of you who don't work in the trades, we know what this shit is. We know why it's happening. I've been calling it "Maintenance Debt".

Every single technological advancement of the last half century has made some amount of it's money by drastically underestimating it's maintenance costs. Every single buisness has spend the last half century slashing maintenance budgets, refusing to train new folks, refusing to even hire people in at market rate. Crews are small and in a lot of places you either get the work done or you loose your job. A lot of people take their time and do it right and work overtime and crush themselves to do it. A lot of guys go out and just do the bare minimum, knowing that the thing will keep running for another 10-15 years till the problems pile up.

And that money that companies and corporations and oligarchs are making off cutting these costs is a loan. It's a debt against the maintenance that needs done to keep these things running. And all of these plane crashes are that debt coming due.

You are gonna see more of them, and the planes are just the biggest and loudest version of this. Maintenance Debt is an issue across every industry. Planes, road infrastructure, power generation, power and water systems, sewage systems, internet lines and cell towers, hell even just maintenance on things like buildings and facilities.

Cleaning lady in the Museum of Modern Art, 1948.

"GIRL'S ASSAILANT AN EX-CONVICT," Montreal Gazette. January 10, 1913. Page 8. --- Furnace Man, Who Attacked Little Girl in Convent, Identified. ---- CHILD WILL RECOVER. ---- Katie Marks at Hospital, but Physicians Say That She Will Be Able to Appear. ---- Charged with having assaulted twelve-year-old Katie Marks, in the basement of the Convent of Our Lady of Good Counsel, corner of Craig and Fanet streets, Cyrille Chartrand, who was only recently released from St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary, was arraigned yesterday morning before Judge Lanctot.

It is alleged that after having beaten the little girl until she was almost unconscious and her head and face was badly battered, while her clothing was almost torn from her body, Chartrand attempted to burn her by opening the furnace door and shoving her head first into the blazing fire. How the child got away from her assailant is not yet known, but she managed to drag herself to the kitchen of the convent where the sight of her head and face bathed in blood almost frightened to death one of the sisters, who hearing the child moan, turned and saw her standing in the doorway of the kitchen. It was impossible to recognize her at first, owing to her face being covered with blood and ashes, and it was a moment or two before the sister realized the child was one of the pupils of the school. The little girl was only able to say that a man downstairs had beaten her and tried to burn her in the furnace. Dr. Duckett was summoned to the convent, while one of the pupils was sent for the child's mother. On seeing the serious condition of the child, Dr. Duckett advised that she should be sent to an hospital, and an ambulance was called from the General Hospital.

IDENTIFIED ASSAILANT. Before the ambulance arrived at the convent, the mother and brother of the child reached there from their home, 76b Wolfe street, only a few blocks away. When they heard what had happened, from the lips of the child, who spoke in Russian to them, the mother understanding no other language, they rushed downstairs into the basement of the building. The brother, who is 25 years of age, appeared a moment later in the room where the injured child was, holding Chartrand, and asking her if he was the man. The little one, who became terribly excited on catching sight of Chartrand in the doorway, exclaimed, "Yes, yes; that is the man. Take him away."

The brother and mother might have wreaked their vengeance on Chartrand then and there, but were persuaded not to do anything rash. He strongly denied he was responsible for the condition the child was in, and it was thought, perhaps, that she might in her excited condition, be making a mistake. Chartrand took matters very coolly and even assisted the ambulance driver to back his team into the sidewalk when it came to take the child to the hospital.

FLED FROM POLICE. But when the police arrived from the East Craig street station a few minutes later he had disappeared. From information gathered by the police at the convent, it was learned that Chartrand had relatives residing at 130 Workman street, Ste. Cunegonde. The police hurried there and found Chartrand. He had arrived there a few minutes ahead of them and was changing his clothes when they reached the house. They took the clothes he had taken off, and brought them along with him to the Fast Craig street station. But they were unable to find a blue sweater that he wore while working around the basement of the convent during the morning, and it is thought he must have burned it in the furnace.

When taken to police headquarters yesterday, to be photographed and measured, Chartrand was recognized as an ex-convict. He was sentenced to St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary in 1906, for a term of six years for theft, and was only released from there a couple of months ago.

From what could be learned yesterday from the mother of the child, who had been to see her at the General Hospital, the little one had arrived at the convent Wednesday morning a few minutes before the doors of the school were open. Chartrand was clearing the snow from the sidewalk. As it was cold she accepted his suggestion that she should go into the furnace room for a few minutes until the doors were opened. She said that she had hardly got inside the door when he entered, and closing the door after him attacked her. She fought as hard as she could, but was not strong enough for him and he beat her on the head with his fists and tore her clothing in the struggle When she raw him open the furnace door and tried to thrust her in, she broke away from him and got to the stairway lending to the kitchen. He made no attempt to follow her, and she managed to climb up the stairway to the kitchen where she met the sister.

It is not thought by the police that Chartrand intended to burn the child, but that if he opened the furnace door, as she claims he did, it was to try and frighten her into submitting to him.

Chartrand pleaded not guilty before Judge Lanctot and was remanded until next Thursday for trial.

BRIGHTON, Colo. Shooter in Colorado Walmart slayings of 3 faces sentencing

BRIGHTON, Colo.  — The man who pleaded guilty to gunning down three people in a suburban Denver Walmart last year will be sentenced Friday, but more than 11 months after the crime, his motive remains a mystery.

A judge is expected to send 48-year-old Scott Ostrem to prison for the rest of life without parole, part of a deal Ostrem made with prosecutors to avoid a potential death sentence for…