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Apple, are you for real?
My cable for my iPod classic isn’t compatible with my iPad? And HOW much do you charge for cables?!?
Jeez!
This is for the rude female off duty employee that shut the door in our face today not once but twice! We just wanna say thank you! I feel that someone needs to make you aware that even though your not on the clock you still represent your place of employment if your on the property and you should conduct your actions accordingly. Speaking from experience and being a current restuarant manager that is definitely not how one goes about achieving 100% guest satisfaction. In fact after experiencing this and witnessing other clocked in employees in disgustingly dirty uniforms yelling across the restuarant for the manager to change the paper towels in the bathroom and not having any sauces on the condiment bar, no toilet paper in the rest room and the quality of our sandwiches being less then average we will not be returning to this establishment. We will be letting all of our friends and family know of our experience today in the hopes that they do not visit your restuarant either. Now go ask your boss what the affects are of one bad guest experience. That one guest tells their one friend and that one friend tells another and before you know it 30 people know about it. The final result is a decline in sales which in turn means a decline in your hours because the business isnt there!! The time of this occurence was not during a busy time infact there were only 4 guests in the entire restuarant and was well after 1pm. Have a nice day!
Just because some cops might take advantage of their authority by scaring people they’re just doing their job. I doubt any cops want to become one just so they can be assholes. I’m 19 and I’m smart enough to realize it’s just a job to most of them. But I’ve seen the MCPD screem and intimidate people and I’m sick of it.
Just because some cops might take advantage of their authority by scaring people they’re just doing their job. I doubt any cops want to become one just so they can be assholes. I’m 19 and I’m smart enough to realize it’s just a job to most of them. Someone has to do it…
Mr Wernet is just trying to learn a new trade for when he retires from MCPD. Nothing wrong with this or maybe hes working undercover any way hes a nice guy so leave it alone
Word has it that is an active duty policeman working as a car salesman along side another salesman who was recently arrersted for felonly theft. How does that work? If he needed permission from someone in the departmen it was a bad decision. Looks bad, not good
before I even think about getting any medical attention at Mercy. The place is a mess. The nurses are on their cell phones, they don’t know how to use a lot of their equipment. I really think these people are not trained professionally. I want to live, so I will drive!
Well where to start? I would guess that was the total Officer shift, I would also take a wild guess and think there were two Supervisors on duty even if it means overtime so what could they both possible be doing that one of them can not respond lend a hand as well as supervise. Oh and by the way I am retired from the job and have been at many many sites where the Police were far outnumbered by more than the ratio you listed.
Geez, I’d really like to smoke a joint while riding my electric scooter down the street, but apparently someone named Buzz Crumcutter has something to say about that.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE OF KELLY & JODY KINDS OF STORIES, INSTEAD OF PETER CHILDRENS ARTITLES EVERYDAY.
Being one of the people still working in this town just trying to get around with all the retired folks drifting around the roads well under the speed limit. Also why when you have all day to eat do you have to plug up the resturants at lunch time drinking coffee when the working have only a short time for their break.
Never rent anything from the Rent A Center (RAC)they will say one thing but they turn around an do the opposite what they say.
I hope this section won’t get overloaded with comments from some burnout whiners who want to continually complain about loud motorcycle pipes and wanting to legalize marijuana.
For those of you that constantly piss and moan about NIT not being this or that…..why do you keep coming back? If you think this site is so bad, start your own news site or better yet, leave.
Im pissed off at the MC police as I see them everyday go by the high school on illinios ave driving by young kids smoking at the 3 main corners there and not a damn thing is done, are you guys to frickin lazy to get out and fine then? Stop these kids while they are young and maybe they will get the hint.
Why hasn’t NIT mentioned Andrew Breitbart, without him leading and paving a path there would be no such thing as NIT.
Once again city of MC not supporting its own. Read city council agenda for this tuesday, the city is buying cars from everywhere but right here in river city… They are buying from clear lake and des moines. Brent willert bought his new sled out of town too, so did mayor. More examples of the hypocrites downtown.
I want to complain about kaydn’s law anonymously approved by the senate today – – my thoughts have nothing to do with how horrible that tragedy was – it has to do with a histrionic response – what one would consider a politically correct response and now we have a law passed to increase fines and all that for someone illegally passing a bus. That’s all well and good, however, in this case, the guy was legally blind and wasn’t supposed to be driving at all and couldn’t even see it was a stopped bus!
I had an experience in which a bus driver pulled into the middle of a four-way stop, and then stopped with the front nose of the bus to pick up kids at the corner of the sidewalk with the bus still midway in the intersection; this was in downtown mason city; I was confused, and didn’t see that she had any lights on or stop-sign out. After stopping, I went through the intersection wondering what the heck that bus driver was doing. Next thing I knew I recieved a ticket in the mail. It was dismissed by the school district.
My point is, how do they know if a bus driver puts the lights on???? They do not always do so. They should have lights like the cop cars have that one cannot miss! and the stop signs on the side should be larger and a flourescent color. There should be some way to check the buses to see if they actually put the lights on and the stop-sign out when giving tickets.
That’s my rant.
Good luck on this forum Matt, I’m sure you have given birth to a can of worms here. I will be reading it daily…
NIT sux. It was much better before they changed the website. Now it’s more national news and very little about North Iowa.
Never saw one mention of the Franklin County official whose OWI charges were never filed by the county attorney until it was too late.
I have seen 10+ articles about how Peter Children hates the Globe, though.
I noticed with great concern that on 3/1/12 at 1520 hours six (6) MCPD Officers without an Supervisor being listed all responded to one location. I think I remember a short time ago where a bank robbery occurred when all the Officers were at one location. If you need this many Officers at one location I would be interested in knowing why there was no Supervisor on the scene.