The Social Security Administration (SSA), Region II, requires a contractor to use sufficient heat levels and heat application time to remove a bed bug infestation that has been identified inside a several [sic] vertical file cabinets currently containing paper files and folders. The files are located at the SSA facility in Jamaica, Queens, New York. The seven areas in the building needing treatment are spread across five floors.
I had the "pleasure" of visiting NEPC in Queens with a group in the mid-1980's. That area of Queens looked like London after the blitz. It gives "ghetto" a bad name. We were in a meeting up on the fifth floor. First thing the meeting leader did was to have all the women in the group pick their handbags up off the floor to prevent the creepy crawlies from hitching a ride and escaping Queens. About five minutes later I saw a large cockroach scurrying along the baseboard -- mind you, fifth floor, daytime, in a room with about twenty people. So now they want "heat." I don't think a nuclear device would cleanse that place.
ReplyDeleteNEPSC didn't open until late 1988. I should know, because I had the "pleasure" of working there.
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