Just How Bad Is It? New York Post Employees Are Forced To Panhandle
Upper East Siders scream at the New York Post’s Doug Montero to get a job:
Posted: January 19th, 2007 | Filed under: Class War, New York Post, Well, What Did You Expect?The muscular store worker didn’t mince words when he told me to shoo from outside the Ralph Lauren clothing shop.
“Go stand by the church or I’m going to call the cops,” he threatened as I lowered my panhandling coffee cup.
Bumming on Madison Avenue is a tough business.
It took about an hour before the Ralph Lauren workers at the East 72nd Street store began harassing me.
The first worker, a linebacker-sized maintenance worker, told me to get off the store’s planters because my rear end was disturbing the hedge.
“You should go by the church. You’ll make more money there because people walk by and feel more spiritual,” he said, pointing toward East 71st Street.
“Get a job,” sneered one 60-something lady.