The Issue: The Post’s reporting of Ground Zero construction workers allegedly drinking during lunch.
Heather Haddon and Brad Hamilton’s reporting blew the lid off the scandal of construction workers drinking during lunch — something everyone who ever worked in or commuted to the city already knew (“Ground Zero Booze Crews Get Sloshed While on Job,” Aug. 14).
Here is something else we already know: The brokers who make our investment decisions aren’t drinking milk during their two-hour lunches.
According to the article, construction of the tower has entered a “delicate phase that demands clear-headed concentration.” The same should be said for the handling of our 401(k)s.
Joe Dicicco
Punta Gorda, Fla.
All the tradesmen connected with the construction of our edifices are professional artisans. The structural integrity of the city looks too good to have been built by drunken construction workers.
There are enough bad guys around for Haddon and Hamilton to keep their eyes on. They shouldn’t be jeopardizing the jobs of hardworking men.
Jack Costello
Lynbrook
Sunday’s article unfairly targets workers who have very difficult and physically demanding jobs.
We can’t expect men who work behind desks to be able to identify with them.
If the workers were “sloshed,” they’d be thrown off the job.
It’s bad enough that companies and their insurers dictate what I can do at home on my own time. Spying at lunch is just as bad.
Go to any bar in the city at lunch time. You’ll find increased business during the lunch hour, and it’s not tourists.
For a job that’s been going on for 10 years, with thousands of workers, a handful of accidents doesn’t sound like a serious problem.
The $2 billion cost overruns are to be blamed on the people involved with this project before the first piling was put in
.D. Paglia
Philadelphia