You can't?

I don't know the legality of this practice but it's a common practice in salons too. At least it was way back in the day in another city I lived at the time. I "tried out" at multiple salons that strung me along and never hired me and never paid me. I suspect they do it knowing full well it's free labor without ever intending to hire anyone. It's super shitty and exploitative. I'm sorry for your friend. Maybe look up the state labor board?

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Call your reps, the mayor’s office, and the governor’s office. This is insane. There’s no reason to believe this company can manage this job safely based on the track record. My god.

It is not. I originally posted with the name of the restaurant and the EC’s name, but it was locked by moderators. I’m not sure what the rules are, but I will happily drop the name again if it won’t shut down the thread.

The restaurant is in a hotel (with three letters in its name…a climbing or creeping plant) and in Mt. Vernon.

Anyway, from what I’ve been reading today these stages are actually illegal. My buddy is in his 50s and old school, but he needs to ask to be paid out.

Is the restaurant part of the Atlas Group? If so, I’m not surprised at all.

get some goodr sunglasses via a charm city run store. they can be polarized or not, nonslip, very durable, $25, and I'm pretty sure they've got a 1 year warranty. best sunnies I've ever owned!

Those are good questions about what chemicals need to be removed and how they will do that.

I hope the state will have an open forum before they move forward for people to hear the answers. I’m glad the Baltimore County delegates are trying to stop it until more information is available n

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All of the color routes are generally reliable. You'll still want to plan for some delays/etc. especially at first until you figure our your office's tolerance for transit commutes.

But also: look at the JHU shuttle and Collegetown routes? Not sure where you are in Upper Fells, but getting a JHU shuttle from the hospital up to Charles Village and catching a Green or Collegetown bus from 33rd might be a better option.

Thank you for the rational reply with more information. The sheer mass panic that is expressed over the past day or so on here is a bit much, although skepticism and the desire for more information is indeed warranted. Let's ask more questions and get to the bottom whether this is indeed safe. I can't see the EPA making this decision and risking ANOTHER ecological disaster that has the potential to impact a major metro area and the largest estuary in the United States.

I don't get a vote, but I think having the accessible entrance be in the back is fine if it's well-marked/lit/etc. at a place like MRT. A wheelchair lift on the front steps would probably take up most of the stair width and might impact fire code capacity.

I didn't get this until I read an article in the Sun, but apparently they want to treat the water at a CleanHarbors facility near the incinerator, then discharge the treated water into the municipal sewer to be treated at Back River.

I would like to know what chemicals need to be removed, how they plan to do it, what the acceptable concentration of effluent is from their treatment and how that will be confirmed. I'm actually less concerned knowing that it's a private, well known wastewater remediator doing this than wastewater treatment plant.

In addition, the explosion and fire last week has nothing to do with the treatment plant- that was a separate company that takes biosolids (which would otherwise have to be landfilled) and makes fertilizer pellets. The appropriate state and federal agencies will find out what they did wrong. The only thing Back River and this other company have in common is the byproduct of the first is an input for the second.

Incomplete treatment also means the nitrogen and phosphorus levels are too high, which is known to have happened.

What exactly are you scared will happen? Another train will derail?

Also if you don’t live in the city or by the water this may not effect you so it wouldn’t make sense for you to write to the governor and delegates. My post is for people who live near the water in Baltimore and by the bay and don’t want this in the water.

“Human waste” is feces, I’m sorry I don’t how to explain simpler for you. The reports have a lot of technical words that were difficult for me too, I work in healthcare so I had to look up some of the terms. Where the reports say millions of gallons of black solids and partially treated human waste was discharged into the tributaries it means feces dumped into the river where it leads to the bay.

At least there's only one Atlas restaurant.

Again, this doesnt say feces were being dumped into the river. It says people washed their cars on the clock.

I don’t believe you’ve read the reports fully. The treatment plant isn’t operating the way it should. People are worried adding more waste will cause problems

>>The reports found plant employees exhibited an “open unwillingness to comply” and “bad behavior.

>> The MES team observed not just “open unwillingness to cooperate,” but also “animosity. . . between the maintenance and operation groups.” “Negative behaviors – ranging from sleeping on the job to verbal/physical altercations between employees – have been observed on both the supervisory and subordinate level,”

>> City staff were seen “washing personal vehicles during the workday and have admitted to receiving payment or free lunch for services provided,” according to the report by the quasi-public agency, assigned by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE)

>> there have been daily illegal discharges of millions of gallons of partially treated human waste for more than a year into tributaries of the Bay.

They should drop off the water at norfolk southern’s corporate offices

The discharged water was missing nutrient targets but i hadnt heard about solid sewage, and the stories you linked dont say that either? People are acting like because this is from a derailed train it is somehow more dangerous than the millions of gallons of waste water treated by the state every day.

The treatment plant wasn’t operating correctly, they were dumping solid sewage matter into the river. The state said there were “systemic problems and failures at every level”. The state had to take over, it was so bad the state is still working on the fixes. The man who was in charge resigned from DPW a week ago, the next day there was explosion there. The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Brew are doing a good job reporting the problems.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/environment/bs-md-back-river-mes-report-20220609-kadheruyindq5e2f3o4irsozhu-story.html

https://www.wypr.org/wypr-news/2022-09-22/maryland-lawmakers-peek-inside-the-troubled-back-river-wastewater-treatment-plant

https://www.dundalkeagle.com/news/local/mes-oversight-at-back-river-wastewater-treatment-plant-extended-through-april-30/article_24986302-b419-5592-8c31-1ed363770f6b.html

Gotcha

What is the reason to think it wont be processed correctly

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