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Bill Schuette Job Security: Aramark Edition
Thursday , 3, December 2015 Aramark, Bill Schuette, Nerd Problems 6 CommentsAramark may be long gone, but thanks to the Nerd’s failure at privatizing the state prison food service, the Michigan taxpayers are stuck with the bill of cleaning up Snyder’s mess. Today Bill “I wanna be the next governor” Schuette announced a conviction on one of the former employees of Aramark who tried to pay […]
With Maggot You Get Sack Lunch: Aramark Workers Don’t Even Work In That Part of the Kitchen!
Thursday , 2, July 2015 Aramark, Nerd Problems Leave a commentIt’s happened again. An inmate kitchen worker found a maggot in a secure food preparation area at the Alger Correctional Facility in Munising. Last year, 4000 pounds of potatoes were discarded after maggots were found at the Upper Peninsula prison. The prison closed the kitchen for cleaning and the inmates were served bag lunches. Aramark […]
With Potato You Get Fresh Protein: Aramark Strikes Again
Wednesday , 3, June 2015 Nerd Problems 2 CommentsPrison inmates found maggots living in potatoes they were cutting on June 2nd at G. Robert Cotter Prison in Jackson, Michigan. The kitchen was closed and inmates were sent back to their units while the prison shut down the food line and cleaned it. All potatoes in the prison were thrown away. This is the […]
Making Government Accountable 501(c)(4) PAC Formed: Guess Who Wants To Be Nerd In Chief
Monday , 20, April 2015 Nerd Problems, Presidential Primary 2016 1 CommentSnyder spokesperson Jarrod Agen told the Associated Press that a group of Snyder’s inner circle created a tax-exempt PAC to raise funds for Snyder to tour the country starting next month after the state votes against raising the sales tax. With that defeat over his head, Snyder will likely want to get out of the […]
Snyder’s Murdering Sex and Drug Fiend Maggots
Thursday , 9, October 2014 Nerd Problems Leave a commentRick Snyder eliminated 400 union jobs in Michigan so he could privatize the prison food system with a contract to Aramark. So far we’ve had maggots in the food, sex between staff and inmates, staff selling drugs and murder for hire. Lots of relentless, nothing positive with this action, Governor Nerd.
Sex, drugs, exotic protein in the food and now … contract murder. The plot of a hard-boiled crime novel? Not at all, just another chapter in the continuing train wreck saga of Aramark in Michigan. Rick Snyder had no trouble putting almost 400 Michigan workers on the unemployment line when he hired Aramark to take […]