CTA Sound-Off.

The City employee blogs are no longer an emergency-services exclusive.

We and SecondCityCop have added links to the CTA Sound-Off blog (we fixed our link today), and we see that one of our coworkers has left a comment, which undoubtedly means there are even more of you who have at least visited.

We pass on best wishes and luck to the new blog, and hope that a trend has been sparked; a trend of city workers who go "public" because they're tired of the shabby treatment received from "The City That Works." We feel more like it's "The City That Jerks" its employees.

Wouldn't it be something to see a collection of blogs from employees of various departments? Maybe that would get us the media attention that so many PCOs say we need to get any major improvements.

Or maybe the media is disinterested because residents don't care about the employees' issues as long as they get their little amenities. And maybe we, the police districts, 311, CTA, and every other department should start answering the phones with "Welcome to Chicago, may I take your order, please?"