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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

When I worked for the school district as registrar at the high school I had 
to work with schools and district offices in all 50 states and multiple 
cities within each.  When I worked at the CC, I had to work with folks in 
states all over the U.S. (and other countries).  When I worked with the 
feds, I had to work with folks who worked in government, at the taxpayers 
dime, in multiple states.  The same when I worked for the city since I was 
in purchasing and we piggyback claused all our bids.

So, I'm not judging those getting paid by the taxpayer by CA workers, I'm 
judging them by all those folks I had to deal with and it is scary to think 
so many goldbricks, and to be quite honest, Peter Principle folks, are out 
there collecting a paycheck!

I think it is great that you believe you're working with the exceptions but 
statistics would say otherwise.  And, your state routinely votes in folks 
like Blogo, Daley and Teflon, so I'm not thinking it's all peaches and cream 
out there.

And, while I know this state is currently in trouble, everyone better start 
praying or whatever ya do because if CA goes down the John-E, then the U.S. 
is going to be hurting.  The GNP for California is the 7th highest in the 
world and accounts for 14% of the U.S.'s GDP.  The condition the U.S. is in 
means it can't afford to loose 14%!

However, I don't have too much faith in the morons in Sac, particularly when 
we have Schwartzenazi there who hasn't a clue!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>



> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:
> > And, I think Marie's statements give you the answer to her angst.  Bob 
> > said
> > that taxpayer funded employees are a drain.  Marie is a taxpayer  funded
> > employee.  Bob's comment was a generalization and I'm thinking Marie took 
> > it
> > as a personal attack.
>
> Well partially. Bob went off on state employees, and I are one and
> know lots of them. State employment isn't all that lucrative, but it
> still manages to acquire workers because of the benefits (your gall
> bladder goes to hell, you can get it removed without going into
> bankrutcy). OTOH, as I said, most state workers have one or two other
> jobs because they like to eat on a regular basis, have a moderately
> warm house (none that I know have admitted to anything over 65
> degrees), and keep the cable hooked up. Over the years, Illinois has
> come down as having fewer state workers per population than any other
> state and it hasn't changed. When I went to work at the Board of
> Education, it had nearly a thousand employees. Now we're under 600
> (and maybe lower than that as.I haven't checked lately). Some of the
> attrition is due to computerization of jobs that now take far less
> paperwork. But much of it is simply a ssigning more duties to the
> people who are there.
>
> If the Legislature approves a program, somebody has got to oversee it.
> You can oppose actually setting up the programs, but overseeing them
> is necessary if only to voucher the expenses.
>
> I work in teacher certification, and trust me, I share with many of
> you skepticism about how much it's worth. OTOH, somebody will be doing
> it, and why not me. They have a real deal with me. In addition to
> evaluating transcripts and threading my way through our thicket of
> rules, I can also write and edit and explain to the poor souls in the
> field what they need to do to be in compliance with this or that. I
> fancy that I'm really good at that.
>
> As for my fellow employees, we have only a couple of slackers and
> EVERYONE knows who they are. A couple of years we had a backlog of
> files that was horrible (more than a year), but with employee
> suggestions and, finally, some cooperation from management we cleared
> it up. As far as I can tell, management still hates us for that.
> > Now, having worked for the Feds and at the county and city level, and 
> > having
> > collected a pay check from those same taxpayer dollars, I can tell you 
> > that
> > a great big % of my fellow employees were professional gold bricks!
>
> I find that amazing. I know ('cause I've looked at the stats) that
> other state governments have far more workers in every category than
> Illinois does. We just don't have anyone, even our slackers, who
> doesn't contribute. Until our boss turned into a vision of hell and
> began to accuse us of not working (she seems to be bipolar, but that
> may be aggravated by her being one of  Rod B's pay to play people, and
> she knows her (very large) butt is on the line), we rarely even took
> breaks, and lots of us ate lunch at our desks while we worked. Now,
> we're actually taking breaks and lunch, and it's really quite a nice
> change.
>
>
> I
> > personally think that the whole paid holidays and sick leave thing are
> > ridiculous with the sick leave being massively abused!  Anyone, and I 
> > mean
> > ANYONE who says otherwise is playing pretend!  Government employees, in
> > general, take longer breaks, longer lunch hours, do more personal 
> > business
> > on the clock and take more items home than private sector employees!
>
> No kidding? California must be an interesting place to work. Here,
> people have hundreds of days of sick time that they won't use even if
> they have ebola because they can transfer it to their retirement.
> > Ya know, I was no model employee and I'm certainly not a whiz kid at what 
> > I
> > did.  What I am is someone who is easily bored <g>  I need to be busy.
>
> I work with two dozen people like you. Illinois taxpayers are getting
> their money's worth. Sorry about California, but it looks like you're
> in the toilet in any case.
>
> Marie
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