California's Division of Labor Standards Enforcement has no labor standards of their own!
An unofficial blog highlighting inefficient & incompetent service that taxpayers receive as a result of DLSE mismanagement. The opinions here are the authors and shouldn't be read by anyone, including the author.DIR lawyers Anthony Mischel, Vanessa Holton, Steve McGinty, & Richard Munoz spend time dedicated to taking a crap on the 1st Amendment instead of doing DIR-related work for the taxpayers
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Latest from DIRt-Davenport's phone testimony, DLSE's CRO says that Broadwater & Jackson were secretly placed under surveillance...
1) Brian Davenport is allowed to testify at Blogger's termination appeal hearing by phone. This was decided after the June 10th blog entry highlighting DIRt's fraud, waste, & abuse by flying Davenport from Missouri to California at taxpayer expense. I cannot wait for my attorney to ask the who, what, where, when, & why this was decided AFTER the blogger's report of such fraud, waste & abuse. These fiscal morons sealed up my argument that the blog is worthy of reporting such fiduciary malfeasance. Thank you, Vanessa Bolt-ons, Toni Michelle, Steve McSquinty, and Angela Badstreet for confirming what will soon be a matter of public record.2) Back in 2006/2007 when the DLSE morons sent DLSE police officer Lee Pearson to drum up dirt on the blogger and to solicit complaints, they also wanted to know who befriended the Blogger. It turns out that Lee Pearson's filtered/whitewashed report forgot to mention those acquired details when they turned this report over to the Blogger during the victorious civil lawsuit. DLSE secretly placed Jackson & Broadwater under surveillance in hopes of retaliating against those two as well. It took a couple years, but they finally found a reason to put Jackson on the beach for two weeks (unpaid suspension).Unfortunately for the DLSE, they had to explain to their own CRO (Civil Rights Office) how & why they came about surveilling Jackson's emails. Since when is being a friend of the Blogger a justification to use money from the taxpayer's General Fund to place innocent state employees on surveillance? Now some of you idiots will say that no money was spent surveilling the computer accounts of Broadwater & Jackson, but I will tell you that the DLSE used taxpayer money to pay the wages for other state employees to monitor & report said surveillance, then more wages to other state employees to take action on said intelligence (surveillance reports).At the end of the day, the DLSE paid a lot of wages to conduct secret, unjustified, and warrantless searches of innocent state employees. Their only crime was eating lunch with the Blogger, and for that, Jackson got two weeks on the beach. That coward called DLSE Supervisor Jorge Gomez did nothing to halt such illegal tactics-paid by the taxpayer, of course-because DLSE does nothing but waste taxpayer funds on trying to get rid of employees they don't like.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Governor Steroid is clueless as he was faithful....more $$$ DLSE/DIRt fraud, waste, and abuse
Gov. Idiot says he wants every agency to scrutinize every penny spent. Does Susan Kennedy look the other way just because her rainbow flag counterpart, Labor Commissioner Angela Badstreet will waste any & all money necessary to try and win their termination against the Blogger?These idiots are flying out Brian Davenport, at TAXPAYER EXPENSE-from Missouri to Los Angeles, to testify that the Blogger made a command decision based on no policy, procedure, or practice-despite numerous requests for such policies & procedures. Furthermore, Davenport was made entirely whole because Jorge Gomez gave him a new conference-even though Davenport didn't deserve a new conference because he failed to appear at his initial conference-but Rosen will spend all day hitting them in the ass with that...I cannot wait!DLSE lawyer Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Blogger rec'd this from anonymous source...quoted below
"It has come to my attention that since a Hearing Officer in the Santa Ana office haas filed a grievance based on gender discrimination as well as filing a complaint with EEOC, he has ben harassed and retaliated against. The Department has now made a 35-year employee with a spotless record appear to be the worst employee ever hired. The retaliation is relentless in that he has now been issued warnings concerning attendance, lateness, and long lunch hours. Furthermore, every time he refuses to settle the matter with the Department he is further disciplined. The first time he refused to settle, he was issued an attendance warning, the second time he refused settlement he was given another disciplinary day off without pay. What is the union doing in trying to resolve these discriminatory and retaliatory acts. The answer is that they are trying to coerce the employee in accepting a settlement offer that favors the department rather than putting an end to these discriminatory acts. It is public knowledge that "CASE" has never won a grievance against this department and they will do anything to settle rather than going to a hearing or God help us, court."Blogger's comment: let me address two issues,
1) the employee's union, CASE, has so much money and so little talent-it is embarrassing. For example, let's say that there are 400 DLC Is and DLC IIs paying $45/month in dues. CASE takes in $18,000 a month-just from the DLSE employees! $18,000 a month! Who the heck knows that they do with that money because CASE receives a lot of money from DLSE just to lose their grievances! CASE representative Monica Miner is a better breast-feeder than legal representative. She should go back to being a full-time mother because this way, only one human being is effed up under her watch instead of the DLSE employees that must suffer under her representation.
2) DLSE's history has been to intimidate with their lawyers and investigations until they get the desired result. All one needs to do is to take them to court, a real court, not their in-house Civil Rights Office (CRO) and certainly not the State Personnel Board (SPB). The CRO is there to protect the DLSE, to whitewash any management improprieties and the hammer any employee deemed undesirable. The SPB is here to protect the Governor's interest, which means that the DLSE must be protected. Since it was management that initiated these adverse actions against the employee, the SPB must now find a way to legally justify DLSE's incompetence, lack of policies & procedures, double standards, retaliation, and discrimination.DLSE ambulance chaser Tony Mischel will probably win his SPB case against me, but I'm not going to stop there...it will go to a Writ of Mandate in Superior Court, and if the SPB judge intentionally shows bias towards the DLSE, then the state bar can handle that complaint. I'll pit my attorney against Tony Mischel on any day of the week, even my attorney's worst day and Tony Mischel's best day. Tony's nothing unless he has home court advantage. Put Tony in a real courtroom and he's just another fat old man with a law degree, no talent and certainly nothing special-that's why he's a lowly hatchet-man for a 3rd-rate agency like the DLSE.In a few years, his fat-encrusted heart will either seize up, he'll have a stroke from all that smoking, or maybe he's already a Type II Diabetic because of all those chocolates. In any event, his body fat content, the girth of his waist, his smoke-filled lungs only play to my favor. Tony Mischel is a lazy glutton, whether it's a cigarette, a sausage, or a caramel. He has no internal discipline, and that makes him the best kind of adversary: a lazy moron whose daily hell is getting out of bed and trying to fit into his own elastic pants. The sooner my attorney wins, the sooner I can laugh harder and louder.
1) the employee's union, CASE, has so much money and so little talent-it is embarrassing. For example, let's say that there are 400 DLC Is and DLC IIs paying $45/month in dues. CASE takes in $18,000 a month-just from the DLSE employees! $18,000 a month! Who the heck knows that they do with that money because CASE receives a lot of money from DLSE just to lose their grievances! CASE representative Monica Miner is a better breast-feeder than legal representative. She should go back to being a full-time mother because this way, only one human being is effed up under her watch instead of the DLSE employees that must suffer under her representation.
2) DLSE's history has been to intimidate with their lawyers and investigations until they get the desired result. All one needs to do is to take them to court, a real court, not their in-house Civil Rights Office (CRO) and certainly not the State Personnel Board (SPB). The CRO is there to protect the DLSE, to whitewash any management improprieties and the hammer any employee deemed undesirable. The SPB is here to protect the Governor's interest, which means that the DLSE must be protected. Since it was management that initiated these adverse actions against the employee, the SPB must now find a way to legally justify DLSE's incompetence, lack of policies & procedures, double standards, retaliation, and discrimination.DLSE ambulance chaser Tony Mischel will probably win his SPB case against me, but I'm not going to stop there...it will go to a Writ of Mandate in Superior Court, and if the SPB judge intentionally shows bias towards the DLSE, then the state bar can handle that complaint. I'll pit my attorney against Tony Mischel on any day of the week, even my attorney's worst day and Tony Mischel's best day. Tony's nothing unless he has home court advantage. Put Tony in a real courtroom and he's just another fat old man with a law degree, no talent and certainly nothing special-that's why he's a lowly hatchet-man for a 3rd-rate agency like the DLSE.In a few years, his fat-encrusted heart will either seize up, he'll have a stroke from all that smoking, or maybe he's already a Type II Diabetic because of all those chocolates. In any event, his body fat content, the girth of his waist, his smoke-filled lungs only play to my favor. Tony Mischel is a lazy glutton, whether it's a cigarette, a sausage, or a caramel. He has no internal discipline, and that makes him the best kind of adversary: a lazy moron whose daily hell is getting out of bed and trying to fit into his own elastic pants. The sooner my attorney wins, the sooner I can laugh harder and louder.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Received from anonymous source...read below...the DLSE should be eliminated by the Governor to save billions in the California budget
"Sex discrimination still runs rampant throughout the Division. A pattern has developed over the past (5) years that the vast majority of promotions are now given to female employees. This pattern of discrimination is well documented if someone wishes to file a sex discrimination claim and subpoena the hiring records for the past (5) years. Also the EEOC stats would indicate that the majority of professionals in the Division are now female. A comparison of these stats with EEOC stats (5) years ago would prove this pattern. Men, it is time to step forward and put a stop to this discriminatory practice. Could the answer possible be that female Labor Commissioners have reigned over the Department for the past (5) years. It is further public knowledge that the present female Labor Commissioner is especially fond of females. Men, you don't stand a chance in this Department if you are looking for a promotion. Just look at the present chain of command!" Blogger's comment-Vicky Bradshaw, Angela Bradstreet, Susan Kennedy, Denise Padres, Abby Calva, and Susan Nakagama have wrecked havoc with the DLSE. What Gov. Terminator should do is just eliminate the DLSE and give every Wage Claimant a Right-to-Sue letter, exactly what the DFEH does with their claimants. Gov. Terminator could eliminate a wasteful, anti-Republican DLSE, save gazillions of dollars in the California budget, and leave the poor & uneducated to fend for themselves.Instead of having 30 Deputy Labor Commissioners, you could hire a part-time clerk (with no benefits) to issue Right-To-Sue letters for unpaid wages and penalties, simultaneously passing the buck and inundating the court system with legal battles that the DLSE should not be resolving anyway (Hearing Officers are not lawyers, yet are practicing law without a license).
Thursday, May 14, 2009
DLSE Wage Claim stats for the Santa Ana office as of today
BB: 457 open cases/99 of those to hearing (21.6%)
SP: 523 open cases/44 of those to hearing (8.4%...she's sitting on them!!!)
KV: 451 open cases/222 of those to hearing (49.2%...don't settle-just go straight to hearing)
LM: 458 open cases/103 of those to hearing (22.4%)
KB: 141 open cases/78 to hearing (55.3%...she's new & hand-picked by Jorge Gomez)So this is the latest-Labor Commish is all pissed off about the backlog of wage claims that Regional Manager Abby "I'm not like my sister" Calva had to spend all day with Jorge to try and solve this puzzle! Labor Commish wants Jorge to go thru every single open wage claim to try and figure out what the slow-down is. I already know the answer but they don't! It's probably all those telephonic settlement phone calls that the Wage Claim peeps aren't making! That's it! If they would just do what Labor Commish (thinks) is the solution, then all of DLSE Santa Ana's problem would go away! WRONG! They have Jorge chasing his tail with case reviews (like that ever worked in the past), DumbBar calls in sick almost every time he's required to hold hearings, no one's working on Mondays, they are still trying to break it off in Jim Jackson's backside (no friend there!), and what else???Oh yeah, everyone in the office hates Jorge and they go out of their way to slow things down. Some are so motivated to make him look bad...Lenora, Kim, DumbBar (especially), but it will take the Labor Commish, Abby Calva, and Jorge Gomez years to figure out that they've made enemies of the workers in the trenches! Keep up the great work with the stats! Susanita's got the highest caseload, she should be getting an award for her public service!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
April, 2009 update of the Santa Ana DLSE office (names were deliberately changed to protect the innocent)
I had lunch with Jorge Gomez and Robert Jones, both of them looked horrible-Jorge had his bad hair dye job as he hates being a grandfather, and Robert's knees still hurt from all of his attempts at getting confirmed by the California Senate for some do-nothing state job that pays $150k/year, but moving on.... Apparently, Denise Padres decided to promote a boatload of girlfriends to the position of IRR, thus positioning them to rapidly advance as DLCs-since that's the next step up from IRR. You go girl! Jorge has been systematically retaliating against his only Hearing Officer that actually writes up the hearing's decision in a timely manner. Jorge doesn't give a rat's ass about DumbBar's 100+ backlog, as DumbBar is writing up decisions on hearings held in December...By the way, DumbBar was Gomez's personal selection for the Vicky Tamoush hearing officer vacancy. Just goes to show, urinal water seeks its own level. As for the other hearing officer, she's about 15+ hearings behind in her decision write ups, and it doesn't matter because Jorge has an altogether different mission: retaliating against the one hearing officer that asked for and was denied telecommuting. DLSE officially stated that there is no telecommuting policy, as they have been very busy terminating & retaliating against other employees to do any productive work that would reduce their liability. The union representing the hearing officer, CASE, is about as dumb as they are slow. If they could make the hearing officer's adverse action disappear, then they could get back into bed with DLSE management, but DLSE management is so dysfunctional that CASE actually might win this one, but not because of their talent...even a broken clock is right twice a day. The hearing officer has a very strong case for discrimination, since DLSE management apparently forgot to discipline all of the other females involved with the email adverse action suffered by the male hearing officer! Is Vanessa Holton a special-needs attorney, as well as her minions? How did these legal rejects think that they could discipline a male DLSE employee but not the female DLSE employees (PLURAL)? Just as they were trying to settle the case with the hearing officer, these idiots kick Jorge Gomez in the butt to start harrassing the hearing officer, thus adding to the hearing officer's retaliation...can't wait for DFEH and EEOC to weigh-in on this once the dust settles.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Women completely protected at DLSE: Lenora Lewis, Angel David, etc. didn't get suspended like that man the Denise Padres suspended for those emails!
DLSE Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet does love her women at DLSE; I mean, she really loves them!!!! Denise Padres suspends a man for two weeks for receiving & forwarding inappropriate emails, then does nothing to the women that sent him those emails! I bet that no investigations were initiated on those women because under woman-lover Angela Bradstreet, women get promoted and men get suspended! Once these pro-woman/anti-men discovered how many discriminations laws they violated, they had that moron supervisor Jorge Gomez call the man's home (on a Thursday night) to inform him that his suspension is now one week instead of two, and that he's to serve the second week of suspension sometime before March 29th. Who had ever heard of such unprofessional conduct by Jorge Gomez? Why was this man's suspension revised, who reviewed and approved the 2-week suspension, and who decided to revise it (orally, not in writing, and at the 11th hour)? Labor Standards has no labor standards. To sum it up, these female managers at DLSE (pretty much) violated every rule in the supervisor's handbook regarding retaliation & discrimination, but they don't care because they are untouchable-free from any sort of accountability.
Labels: Bradstreet, Denise Padres, Gomez, Santa Ana
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
DLSE employee files grievance against Deputy Chief Denise Padres, then Padres suspends employee for using emails about telework/union activities!
Is there anything Denise Padres will not bend over for? Victor Jurado off-duty? Angela Bradstreet on-duty? Padres suspended this DLSE employee, who has had an unblemished thirty (30)+ years in state service, for two (2) weeks. Padres put this employee on the beach because telework was requested, DLSE refused it, a subsequent grievance was filed, emails were exchanged, and then WHAM! DLSE employee suspended for union activity using the state's email system. How come DLSE cannot apply that same type of discipline with the email exchanges of Vanessa Holton and Lloyd Aubrey? Labor Standards has no labor standards: unfair, uneven, unrepentant all the time...welcome to DLSE.
Labels: Bradstreet, Denise Padres, Lloyd Aubrey, Vanessa Holton, Victor Jurado
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Did DLSE Deputy Chief Denise Padres leave her husband for Victor Jurado, the subordinate just promoted under her command? Plus SPB update
Well, I guess it's about time that equality really does hit the DLSE workforce. For so long, it was the men that slept with the women, who subsequently got promoted. Now that women are moving up that corporate ladder, they get to abandon their husbands for some subordinate action on the side (or for the main course). I've been told from a very reliable source that (pretty much) everyone knows what's been going on with the incest/inbreeding within DLSE; is it that hard to find someone outside the workplace these days? While we'll never get the absolute truth from either Denise Padres or Victor Jurado, we should probably start with Denise's husband-Frank Padres. Figure out the timeline when they started having problems up in Northern California and then compare that timeline to when Denise started hanging down in Southern California and when Victor Jurdao got promoted. Are Denise and Victor (far enough) along in their relationship to be seen out in public, or are they still pretending that no one knows at the LA office? Do they have a place of their own because the last time I checked, Victor still lived with & cared for his mom, so he might have a problem making loud bedroom noises if it bothers dear ol' mom...the kind of noises Frank didn't make, I guess. In other news, Anthony Mischel & Denise Padres offered me 5 months of paid leave if I would resign on January 6th. Needless to say, the trial is set for the last 2 weeks in July. It will be a combined termination/whistleblower hearing, so both matters will be heard in one setting.
Labels: Denise Padres, Los Angeles, Victor Jurado
Friday, January 23, 2009
DLSE personnel changes, some good, some bad
When Lauro Cons retired, it was a great day for the California public. His public service career consisted of sucking up to Susan Nakagama and Greg Rupp. When Greg Rupp retired, he knew that he was so hated by DLSE staff that he went out with a whimpering cry & demanded that there be no retirement dinner for him. With these retirements, gaps were created. Victor Jurado became a DLC IV for BOFE: who would have thunk it? Nance Steffen tried to break it off in his ass when she banished him to NorCal for several years, even though she knew that Victor had to care for his mother down in So Cal. Once Victor begged for mercy was he allowed to return to So Cal, and now that Nance Steffen was pushed out of the way (sent to Public Works after her cheerleading for that CMS abortion), Victor actually got promoted! Rumor has it that when he was in Long Beach, the first hour of Victor's working day was spent with the Los Angeles Times in the men's bathroom stall. It's not that he wasn't there, you just had to know where to find him, but I digress. So DLSE pushed Nance Steffen into Public Works, and they pushed Susan Nakagama into Public Works after she retaliated against an employee who filed a workers comp. claim, but you'll see no real evidence of that because DLSE doesn't believe in transparency, just innuendo and "no correlation." With Lauro Cons retiring, some other idiot had to replace him, and who was the perfect idiot bureaucrat? Diana Chen! While she was a supervisor at BOFE, she had a record number of subordinates requesting transfers, so things weren't working out at BOFE. Henry Huerta was producing the stats needed for his group and Tongkun Kim was producing the stats for his group: why break what isn't broken? Diana Chen had to go, because Susan knows nothing about field audits, field enforcement, and she is deathly afraid of public speaking, so someone gotta dig the ditch, and it's Diana Chen. The bonus is that in a republican-controlled administration, there are about ZERO public debarrments, so it's not like these 3 stooges are doing anything except collecting a paycheck. A great start to the new year with Diana Chen & Susan Nakagama paired up as the moron twins. Thanks for making California a better place by staying out of the way!
Labels: Chen, Nance Steffen, Rupp, Susan Nakagama
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Governator cries he wants to trim waste, but what's up with his appointment of Carole Migden to Integrated Waste Management Board @ $132,000/yr?
The California Integrated Waste Management Board (IWMB) is a place for unemployable politicians. This Board is redundant, as most functions are duplicated by the California Environmental Protection Agency. It's important for the Governator to keep the IWMB so he can keep his favorites on the state payroll.The Governator's former Director of Scheduling, Margo Reid Brown, got this free paycheck when the Governator appointed her to the IWMB three years ago. Presently, Margo Brown heads the IWMB!The steroids, the groping-while-still-married: it's a pattern of breaking the rules. "Do as I say and not as I do."Labels: GAS
Monday, December 22, 2008
will Jorge Gomez ever clean his desks? Spending time on post-it notes doesn't make him ready for a DLC IV promotion
You should see all the crap that he has on his desks. Gomez is in a state of forever payback, meaning that if a subordinate hits him in the ass with some screw-up of his, then he will spend the rest of his time poring thru your stuf until he finds a mistake. Hence, the peppering of post-it notes on certain employee case files in Santa Ana.A week ago, hearing officer Jackson overbooked his flight and had too many hearings in the morning, so he asked the new hearing officer DumbBar to hold one of Jackson's hearings. DumbBar said no problem. Not only did DumbBar not hold the hearing, but he lied to Jackson about the parties not being served so he couldn't hold the hearing. The Defendant was a catering company who was already delayed once already, so they were really pissed off. Jackson goes to DumbBar, who tells him that Lee (the clerk) has the file, but she says that Jorge has it. Jorge Gomez, in his supervisory half-lie/other-half-bullshit speak, tells Jackson that DumbBar couldn't hold the hearing and refused to tell Jackson why. The only thing Gomez told him was that there was a very good reason not to hold the hearing. DumbBar is a spittin' image of Vicky Tamoush! Jorge hired exactly who he wanted: an ass-kissing moron.Total bullshit. Why was this reason so secretive? What was so good to delay justice? Were these very good reasons in the 900 Notes? Was DumbBar's, Lee's, and Gomez's actions covered in the 900 Notes? Gomez is excellent in jerking off those he doesn't respect, like his staff. Gomez also thinks he's great at sucking up to his bosses, but his bosses know how much of a moron he is, which is one of the very many reasons why the blogger cannot wait to have him deposed and under oath.
Labels: Gomez, Santa Ana, Wage Claims
Monday, December 08, 2008
Will the DLSE bureaucrat who orgainzed the recent Los Angeles Wage Claim training please resign?
The people from Bakersfield and San Bernadino didn't know what they were talking about. The lawyer from San Diego should have cut off the one person who kept babbling about themself. Not enough microphones and the ones they had didn't work. Completely useless, and still no policy and procedures manual for DLSE staff assigned to Wage Claim Adjudication, which will be a sticking point with the SPB in 2009. Blogger's termination settlement conference will be January 6th in Los Angeles. Here's out it will go down: SPB's job is to protect the DLSE, so I'll be either bullied or given some crappy settlement offer, and the entire time will be wasted. It will proceed to a hearing, and once the SPB gives me their fatal bullet, then it will proceed to Superior Court. No one gets a fair shake at SPB, as their only job is to cover the asses of DIRt.Friday, November 07, 2008
GAS, always looking for a way to help his corporate contributors, still wants meal & rest periods to go away
You gotta give GAS credit; he'll use any reason he can find to justify DLSE from not enforcing its own laws. By not enforcing meal & rest period laws, this only helps one class of people, the corporate ruling class. Click pic to enlarge, go to the Sacramento Bee for full coverage. GAS also wants to take away holidays, put workers on furlough, and tax stuff.Labels: GAS, Meal Periods, Rest Periods
Friday, October 24, 2008
BSA slams DIRt in their report (click pic to enlarge)
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The Bureau of State Audits recently audited DLSE's Apprenticeship Standards...they found no standards but a whole sh*tload of excuses, what a shock.
BSA did manage to accomplish to hide the taxpayer dollar amount from its report because state agencies take care of each other...just like the State Personnel Board.
KEY FINDINGS: The division suspended apprenticeship program audits in 2004 and did not follow up on corrective action related to audits it had started. Until the division resumes its audits and ensures that the apprenticeship committees correct any weaknesses identified, it will have difficulty measuring the success of the programs and the quality of the training apprentices receive. The division has not resolved apprentice complaints in a timely manner, taking over four years in some cases to investigate the facts of complaints.
The division has not adequately monitored the apprentice recruitment and selection process, making it nearly impossible to determine whether committees are adhering to equal opportunity requirements or to identify potential barriers to women and minorities.Division field offices could improve their oversight of committees through improved attendance at committee meetings, establishing a formal process for tracking the resolution of issues or questions, and maintaining an up to date list of programs.
While the division’s staffing levels have not increased in step with legal obligations, the division has failed to document priorities for meeting these obligations for existing staff, which would help maximize the use of existing staff and identify additional staffing needs.The division does not adequately track and disseminate information to the Legislature, thus missing the opportunity to make it aware of programs and gain valuable feedback. The department is slow to distribute apprenticeship training contribution funds. It has only distributed as grants $1.1 million of the roughly $15.1 million that had been deposited into the training fund as of June 30, 2005. The division does not properly maintain its data on the status of apprentices. This data, if accurate, could be used to oversee programs.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Republicans enrich themselves, just like DIRt/DLSE enriching those that do not need their help...CMS, WalMart, Brinker, Kenneth Cole, etc.
Governor's wishes are passed down to those that can implement his directives (but really the big corporations' desire). He wants meal & rest periods evaporated because his financial backers want to keep screwing their employees, then word is passed down to the likes of Jose Millan, Greg Rupp, Donna Dell, Robert Jones, Victoria Bradshaw, John Rea, John Duncan, and Angela Bradstreet. Regulations are circumvented, "emergency" rules are attempted, and policies are changed. State government is about serving the people, not the corporations. Nowadays, Republicans (and I am registered to vote as a Republican) help those that do not need help. Brinker Restaurants does not need help, WalMart does not need help, Kenneth Cole does not need help, Hansen does not need help, Unisys does not need help, yet each of these corporations received a direct benefit from the DIRt/DLSE in the way of financial contracts, policy changes, regulation re-vamping, and overt refusal to investigate violations of state law. In DIRt/DLSE's world, the rich only help the rich. The poor has no voice and certainly not in the DLSE. If you want the DLSE's help, you had better have money, you should have already contributed to Governor Steroid's campaign, and you better know other rich people. To hit this point further, yesterday's newsbreak of the Republican National Committee (RNC) paying $150,000.00 for republican VP candidate Sara Palin's clothes will not be covered by the major news agencies because guess who owns the news agencies? That's right, rich people. Sara Palin's gonna work for regular America, because regular America can spend $18,000/week on clothes just like Sara Palin. Our economy is in the toilet, "Maverick" McCain says he hates waste, and his own RNC spends $150,000 on buying more of Palin's skirts, heels, and purses. Friday, October 10, 2008
VP candidate Sarah Palin violated ethics in Troopergate probe, but there's good news: today, there WASN'T a 500-pt. drop in the stock market ralley!
Can you believe that a governor would abuse her authority? (click this to all 4,000 google links) Can you believe that the nation's Vice-Presidential candidate has been found guilty of abusing her power while serving as Alaska's governor?Who would think that such a person would abuse their position and authority? That being said, I'm sure The California Governator never used steroids, never groped women, never appointed morons into positions of trust, and never traded lobbyist influence for weakened regulations solely benefitting corporations.
On the lighter side, there was no 500-point drop in the stock market today! Yay! Let's put her in office so she can put her "hell hath no fury" brain to fix the Main St. and Wall St. Better yet, let's put her in the VP office so she can breach more ethical duties, and with greater intensity.
On the lighter side, there was no 500-point drop in the stock market today! Yay! Let's put her in office so she can put her "hell hath no fury" brain to fix the Main St. and Wall St. Better yet, let's put her in the VP office so she can breach more ethical duties, and with greater intensity.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
We should privatize social security, so we can have the government invest in Bear Sterns, Lehman Bros., Washington Mutual, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac,
Wachovia, AIG, and whatever else comes down the pipe. McCain voted to privatize Social Security three times, and you know who endorsed John McCain? Governor Steroid! You know who appointed Vicky Bradshaw and Angela Bradstreet? Governor Steriod! Who was in charge during the $10,000,000+ taxpayer-paid CMS abortion? Governor Steriod! Let's take all that money in Social Security and invest it in companies where our rich, white friends can make billions, let them run the companies into the ground, give them diamond parachutes (golden parachutes are for losers), and add this mistake to the Iraq war bill and the $1 trillion dollar bailout. Hell's bells, they've done such a great job with their fiduciary duties so far, let's give them more money (that's not theirs) to vaporize. On the California economy, there is good news for DLSE: caseloads will be reduced in the future since no one's employed to file a wage claim! Caseloads will be reduced, but not because of any DLSE executive thinking, it's because there are no employees working in California.Labels: GAS
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
DLSE eunuch mgr. Jorge Gomez has highest DLC caseload in state: 500+ with a goal of 750 open cases per conference holder!
Jorge Gomez is NUMBER ONE! His office has the highest caseload per conference holder (IRR, MST, DLC). As an example of his genius, some guy performed labor in London, England and wanted to file a wage claim, so off it went to a Santa Ana conference deputy.The deputy, having many years of experience, said there was no claim. It didn't end there! Jorge Gomez had to get involved, and then he involved DLSE legal, who then had to waste their time to codify their opinion, since Jorge Gomez hasn't learned anything in his 30+ years of experience and was too afraid to offer any opinion because eunuchs don't offer opinions. What was legal's opinion? The same as the conference deputy's opinion, but all that time had to be wasted.What should have taken five minutes took three (3) different levels of government and hours. Jorge The Eunuch? he still didn't have an opinion: just sit there and collect your paycheck, Jorge. They pay deputies a lot of money to make decisions, but then don't want them making decisions. They do the same for managers. but DLSE managers make a lot more money to just sit there, professionally constipated.Labels: Gomez, Santa Ana, Wage Claims
Monday, October 06, 2008
File this one under, "I'm not surprised..."
The Number One Flunkie under Governor Terminator finally got another promotion! Click pic to enlarge and read. She's done Arnold's bidding as well as a great job for lobbyists and employers...basically, anyone with a wad of cash. The workers of California, the ones who are abused by the employment and labor law violators? They can go kick rocks, as they have no money, ergo they have no voice. Basically, anyone remotely connected to the $10,000,000+ CMS fiasco gets promoted under The Governator:B R A V O !
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Sarah Palin's "sky is falling" interview, US financial mess explained in 2 minutes, and GAS's 85 days late budget...
America's financial mess explained in less than 2 minutes with stick figures: click here.Sarah Palin's interview with CBS: to summarize - scare people into a panic. Keep Americans in a chronic state of fear so they're kept busy. Interview/transcript, click here...it may disappear, so click, download, and print.Leader of the Free World candidate John Mc Same said the economy was fundamentally strong only days ago, but now it's so bad he's postponed campaigning to deal with the worst financial American disaster since the great Depression. This is what normal people call "whiplash" language, one end of the seesaw to the other, a complete 180-degree turnaround.If you're wondering why there's no DLSE news, it's because the DLSE have chilled employees from talking. They've seen a positive reaction from firing me & Miles, and people don't want to be associated with those on their hit list. I'll list items from time to time, but it depends upon who wants to talk. I will say this: the State of Utah invoked a 4-10 workweek for all of its state employees, citing reduced costs to the taxpayers but same service. Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet wanted eliminate the 4-10 workweek and only wanted banker's hours, but more on that later.Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Anyone who needs Spanish in Santa Ana will continue to be screwed, but CMS got their $10,000,000+ taxpayer funds
How is it that the DLSE Santa Ana office cannot afford translators, but they can throw away TEN MILLION DOLLARS to that piece-of-crap computer software contract called CMS? Jorge Gomez has bilingual clerks doing the translating for the informal conferences, and I've been told that the formal hearings are either being done by DLSE secretaries or those hearings are being continued until such bills can be paid. This must be Jorge Gomez, partying because he has clerks translating instead of doing clerical work. Once again, Labor Standards has no Labor Standards: they have $10,000,000+ for CMS contract payoffs but they don't have $100 for a Spanish translator. Don't expect Jorge Gomez to stand up and cry foul: he's too busy bending over for his bosses.Labels: cms, Gomez, Santa Ana, Spanish Translators
Privatized Profit, Socialized Loss: the $1 Trillion dollar bailout, but John McCain says that US economy fundamentally strong...HA!
How sweet is this? The federal government takes over the losses while simultaneously allowing the profits to stay with the corporations! The assholes that ran these corporations into the ground still get their golden parachutes while the taxpayer continues to get screwed. This capitalistic meltdown is so complicated that no one can explain it. We've become a nation who only manufactures & buys debt: we build nothing, we outsource everything. This is the most serious financial crisis since the mother f*cking DEPRESSION! How in the hell did America's leaders get to here, even after the bulsh*t smoke & mirrors called the Sarbanes-Oxley Act? If America is going to nationalize corporations, then can we nationalize profitable ones like Exxon instead of loser ones like AIG? Now I understand that most people (sheep) either do not care or do not understand these fiscal tidalwaves, but the tidalwave is out there, and those who need to fix this have no room for error, or else we will see a tailspin like nothing we've seen before. This is their last bullet in the gun, and if they don't hit the bullseye, then we are finished. That moron John McCain (and I'm a registered Republican) said that our economy is fundamentally strong...I'd like to smoke what he's smoking. This is the same moron who thinks earning $5,000,000/year is middle class. This is the same moron who doesn't know how many houses he owns. This is the same moron who wants to de-regulate the Heathcare Industry in the same manner that he de-regulated the Banking Industry...how's that working for us so far, America?Monday, September 15, 2008
Dow Jones drops more than 500 points, but John McCain says that the economy is strong...
Lehman Brothers, Merril Lynch, AIG, Washington Mutual are all big companies; these are not furniture.com, pinkdog, and eHarmony. Why is our economy going down the toilet? Because the Republican administration has allowed the rich to rape the taxpayers. This Bush Adminstration had had 8 years, 8 YEARS, to un-f*ck this nightmare, and McSame & Palin are touting that they're different? It's the Maverick and the MILF! Palin could not answer a single serious question from Charlie Gibson's interview. McSame doensn't know how many homes he has: is he already in dementia, or is he just a f*ckin liar? Palin's a sneeze away from becoming the Leader of the Free World First, it's sad that McSame thinks he can play the gender card, like all women will automatically vote for him because a woman is on the ticket. Second, McShame so much as acquires a cough, and she's large and in-charge! Governor Steroid is the same ticket: screw everyone but the rich, and only help those rich enough to send The Steroid checks. Based upon the assholes & douchebags that have been politically appointed in DIRt/DLSE during The Steroid's reign, there is no qualitative difference between Steroid, Bush, and McSame. Steroid, Angela Bradstreet, Vicky Bradshaw, John Rea, John Duncan, Vanessa Holton, Abby Calva, & Robert Jones won't truly be happy until meal & rest periods are obiliterated, secret CMS payoffs will stay secret, and anyone with the balls to say otherwise will be harassed & fired. Are YOU better off than you were 8 years ago? I didn't think so.Tuesday, September 09, 2008
The $80,000+ taxpayer waste is the tip of the iceberg: how much wasted in state salaries??????
So the five OD-legal wizards: Vanessa Holton, Anthony Mischel, Richard Munoz, Steve McGinty, and unknown asian female did what they could to ensure a proper legal loss at the blogger's winning trial. Defendant Lupe Almaraz, hometown Bakersfield but based in San Francisco's HQ, rec'd $$$ per diem, free lodging, and free airplane tickets to attend the blogger's winning trial. How much do you think that state wasted paying these idiots their salary on something completely unrelated to the DLSE's mission of labor law enforcement? How many man hours wasted on a losing legal battle called off-duty free speech? What's the ballpark estimate? $150,000.00? $250,000.00? What about the costs of depositions? What about the paralegals and paralawyers who processed the paperwork for all this mess? How much was paid to them in state wages to lose this court case? If I had to guess, then I'd estimate it at a minimum of $300,000.00 for 9+ DLSE professionals' wages, logistical expenses, lodging, airline, and perdiem, etc. Not that these douchebags would ever provide a proper & exact accounting for the time wasted on this loser case: honesty, accountability, and integrity is just not their style. Now, fast forward to the trial of Miles Locker. Money stolen from the taxpayers so Vicky Bradshaw's assholes like Robert Jones can exercise their personal vendettas is well over a million dollars in state wages. Those man hours could have gone to proper labor law enforcement, but whores like Vicky Bradshaw bend over for Governor Steroid, which is why I support the Prison Guard's union in recalling the Governor. Personal vendettas have no place in paid state service, and the millions of dollars paid to keep Miles and me out of state service is a disservice to the taxpayers of California; they deserve better than these politically-appointed douchebags.Labels: Feces 10
Sunday, September 07, 2008
What cost the taxpayers $80,000+ that could have cost them nothing?
I am legally allowed to type whatever I want to type when I'm not working. If I want to sit naked, put a red ball on my nose, and type about how DLSE supervisor Diana Chen is a pro-Chinese racist and it is this racsism that hurts DLSE's service to the public, then that's what I'll do. Lupe Almaraz, John Duncan, Angela Bradstreet, Anthony Mischel, Victoria Bradshaw, Denise Padres, and Robert Jones have ZERO legal recourse to prevent me from exposing their rascism, fraud, waste, and abuse. But of course, you cannot tell an arrogant, piece-of-crap attorney like Duncan or Bradshaw what they can & cannot do, because they know it all and they are not playing with their money; they are playing with the taxpayer's money. In their legal wisdom, they fired me after the judge's decision. My attorney is personally-naming Jorge Gomez, Denise Padres, and Angela Bradstreet in the whistleblowing and retaliation lawsuit because they should have never fired me. Unfortunately for the taxpayers, who are concurrently suffering from the state budget crisis, they will need to endure more fiduciary irresponsibility from DLSE attorneys. The Feces 10 has proven to the courts that they cannot fix their own problems, they have proven to the public that they are dumber than most labor law violators, and they will give me yet another opportunity to show them for who they truly are.Labels: Feces 10
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Years later and Santa Ana DLSE still has no safety barrier...
What's the dipshit excuse now, no budget? Can't these spincter muscles find a way to get something done instead of providing excuses for consistent failures, blown deadlines, and fiduciary malfeasance? This is DLSE Supervisor Jorge Gomez, partying because the entire California COURT OF APPEALS building will be built before the DLSE has their ribbon-cutting ceremony on that new counter/reception area/safety barrier. One friggin' office to be built versus an entire building. Does the entire DIRt/DLSE desk jockeys suffer from asswholeitis? Congrats to latest Santa Ana hire DLSE Deputy Commissioner Susanita Parker on receiving two separate complaints for job performance, but she won't receive the same treatment as the blogger because they only want to discriminate, harass, and retaliate against the blogger. Five years after being placed on formal notice that the DLSE lacks a specific policy, and the DLSE still has no internal complaint investigations policy...just personal vendettas.Labels: Gomez, Safety Barrier, Santa Ana
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
I'm voting Republican because:
- I don't like shopping at small neighborhood stores. Only big stores, like Wal-Mart that imports crap from China while keeping wages under control. - I don't really want a cure for AIDS and breast cancer. - I think new drugs should be made available immediately, whether they've been tested or not. As long as the pharmacies bottom line is healthy, that's good enough for me. - I want my kids in a classroom with at least 30 other children. That way, they'll be challenged by fighting for attention. - Women just can't be trusted to make a decisions about their own bodies. NEVER. EVER. EVER! - I've already seen the great outdoors. So, it's time to start drilling for oil on public land. That's what the land is for. Besides, oil is more important than parks, wilderness areas or protecting animals. - As an African American, I want a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. I like that we'll be treated as separate, while still be called equal. - Corporations should not have to clean up environmental damage. The EPA is old, out-of-date idea anyway. If people want clean water, buy it in a bottle. - I don't want to know if the food I'm eating has been genetically modified. I trust the Republicans to tell me my food is safe. So, if the label says it's food, that's good enough for me. - I enjoy being screwed by the utility companies. - We need more minorities in prison. - I don't deserve health insurance. - Hybrid cars suck. - Texas needs more billionaires. - The Constitution is just one big inconvenient headache. - All other countries are inferior to us. - We need to start as many wars as it takes to keep the peace, wether justified or not. - So I can stay in Iraq and my baby boy can go to Iran. DIRt/DLSE Republicans: Governator Steroid, Vicky Bradshaw, John Rea, Robert Jones, Tony Mischel, Greg Rupp, John Duncan, and Dean Fryer & Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet (although she's listed as a Democrat, being a whore for the Republican administration that appointed her grants her & Fryer honorary status)
Labels: Feces 10
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Businesses who rec'd citations from DIRt should act just like DIRt: fight, delay, and refuse to pay!
Some commenter, smarter than myself (I can't take credit for this idea), stated that all business owners who have been cited by DIRt/DLSE should follow the standard set by DIRt/DLSE. Businesses should fight every citation, file every motion they can for a continuance, and then refuse to pay after the decision is rendered. This will mirror what the DIRt/DLSE has acted by Judge Fell's decision.First, they fought the TRO (temporary restraining order) preventing them from violating the blogger's right to off-duty typing. Second, they filed motions for delays and continuances (here's a HINT: losers never want to fight in court, they want to delay in hopes of memory fading/loss of interest). Third, once they lost the case, they just refused to pay. Almost a year later and they've still refused to pay.This is a classic DIRt/DLSe example of "do as I say and not as I do," meaning that they want cited businesses to pay the citations without putting up a fight.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Skelly Hearing for Blogger's termination finished at lightning speed...the kangaroo court continues
The Skelly Officer took a meeting with DIR Chief Counsel Vanessa Holton hours before the Skelly Hearing. I know that the Skelly Officer wants to please his handlers, since he's still working and collecting a state paycheck. It's not everyday that Vanessa Holton flies down and spends time at the Santa Ana office; in fact, it's the first time that I've even heard about Vanessa visiting Santa Ana. Skelly Hearing started at 10am on 08/06/08 in Santa Ana, finished at 11am and the Skelly Officer was able to review the case, make no changes, transmit the information to HQ in San Francisco, and HQ sent the letter the same day. This was the fastest I've seen the DIR work since they gave away that free, taxpayer money at the CMS contractors for the $10,000,000+ computer software garbage that doesn't work.Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Santa Ana jota supervisor does it again, but this time he screws over the entire settlement conference staff
Jorge Gomez thought he, Regional Idiot Abigael Calva, and San Bernadino mgr. Bob Sweet could handle the settlement conferences after they terminated the blogger. How long do you think that lasted? That's right, two weeks! They got a small taste of what settlement conference deputies do day in and day out, and they ran back under their little desks, sucking their thumbs and mumbling "mommy." Confidential sources tell me that DLSE Labels: Gomez, Santa Ana, Wage Claims
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