Contractor seeking fairness in new rules
Dear editor,
To all the GCs, executives, owners, owners reps and elected officials:
We, as contractors and subcontractors, have apparently been mislabeled. You are calling us Critical Essential Infrastructure to be able to keep your jobs open.
What we really are is expendable personnel, seeing as how you are asking us to do our job, knowing we cannot do our job and maintain social distancing guidelines.
Furthermore, you have removed your executives from job sites to protect them from getting sick.
You have posted signs on your job trailers and offices saying no subs allowed in offices.
You have added cleaning companies to clean your offices and restrooms (that you are only allowed to use) on a more regular basis.
The list of double standards goes on.
This is a huge burden you are dropping at our feet to figure out while you sit in your office with the door shut, looking through the window, or across the street with binoculars so you can keep your distance.
I am not advocating to shut down these jobs but, if that is what needs to happen, then step up and do it. What I am advocating is to treat the guys in the field, that are making things happen, with the same amount of importance that you have put on yourselves.
Play in the same sandbox we are playing and play with the same tools and conditions we are playing under.
If you cannot do this, or are not willing to do this, but still continue to operate your job, shame on you. This is not too much to ask. Remember, every single one of you preaches safety first. Now, practice what you preach.
For those of you who are doing it right, thank you very much. It does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.
I, as the owner of Perry & Perry Builders, am not willing to ask my guys to do anything I am not willing to do.
Maybe some of you that I am talking to should practice this.
Lin Perry
GM/Owner
Perry & Perry Builders/Erectors
215 East Cameron
Rockdale
Thanks to rural water company for bill cut
Thanks to Southwest Milam Water Supply Corp. for cutting our water bills in half due to the COVID-19 virus. (Reporter, March 26).
When I saw this on my bill, my heart swelled with pride for SW Milam.
“Thank you” seems so small for you caring for your customers during this trying time.
I believe SW Milam has the most courteous workers in the state. I’ve had to call a few times about the water line, have always been treated with respect and was amazed just how fast they respond to the customer’s needs.
God bless all who work there. I always say, as a country boy, “good people work there.”
Billy E. Strelsky
890 County Road 309
Rockdale
Thanks for continuing Black History series
Dear editor,
For a number of years I have always enjoyed the articles by Susie Sansom Piper.
I was so pleased to see that you continued that with her granddaughter as the author. In my opinion, the articles this year were appropriate and accurate.
Thank you for continuing this tradition.
Dr. Lucile Estell
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