California's Division of Labor Standards Enforcement has no labor standards of their own!

Current status of blogger

2012-01-03T05:00:00.000-08:00

The judge sided with DLSE in all parts of their case. The judge is paid by the SPB, which is a division of the state. The SPB is there to protect its own; they are the state's Human Resources and if anyone knows anything, Human Resources is there to protect the employer.

The judge never addressed the whistleblowing, which was a solid basis for appeal. I decided to stop throwing away money at a state department that does a disservice to the pubic, a system that promotes career incest, and a system that neither desires transparency nor change.

I make no apologies; I helped those that deserved help, I didn't whore myself out to ascend the career ladder and in the end, my fate was of my own choosing. The People of California got fucked when DIRt terminated Miles Locker & me; self-serving career bureaucrats won.

DLSE rested their case, week 1 of 2.....Blogger's case-in-chief will begin May 23rd

2011-02-05T05:00:00.000-08:00

So this is what the DLSE put forth towards blogger's termination:

1) Terminated because blogger dismissed claimant's deception in his telephonic failure to appear.

2) Blogger terminated for DLSE failure in Satisfaction of Judgment in 18-68887/MT.

3) Blogger held Jorge Gomez to same 900-Note entry as Gomez held blogger (no policies or procedures [written], just "practices" [unwritten]).

4) Blogger terminated for leap-frogging chain of command because Jorge Gomez ignored everything the Blogger sent to him, ESPECIALLY whistleblower fraud, waste & abuse information.

5) Blogger terminated because Diana Chen always complained about men & the one woman she complained about (Tokar), DLSE never investigated because the witchhunt was for blogger-only.

6) The DLSE does not want Olga Garau to testify! Give Rosen another reason to file appeal/writ of mandate after SPB jams blogger with DLSE-can-do-no-wrong decision.

7) Dan Cornet testified that they only way to settle conferences was by telephone! All counter duty staff must make phone calls on allegations-only before case file docketing, then case file deputy gotta make more useless phone calls....where are the stats on this "success," morons?

8) DLSE lawyers might want to familiarize themselves with the Orange County Superior Court website so they don't appear to be inefficient, incompetent & derelict in their duties when testifying in trying to terminate blogger. In the instant case, Johanna Hsu (Assistant Chief Counsel, DLSE) should have seen what was filed in March, 2008 instead of trying to blame the Blogger for same in May, 2008...something the blogger never touched, seen, or was responsible for.

9) This is what is going to kick them in the balls: they had no issues with my emails, 900 Notes, chain of command, settlement conference success percentage until AFTER I won my civil trial against them in June, 2007 (I began working under Gomez in February, 2006...16 entire months of serving the public efficiently before all hell broke loose). After I won & they lost, the Dept. of Industrial Retaliation went about terminating me.

Why the houses of Gomez, Calva & Bradstreet will be subject to liens just like Almaraz when the blogger is returned to work....

2010-10-25T05:00:00.000-07:00

1) The SPB is much like a corporate HR department: SPB is to protect the state, ergo the Dept. of Industrial Retaliation, ergo DLSE. The SPB is not there for the state employee, but if they go out of their way to protect DIRt, then the appeal is that much quicker, and the punitive damages greater.

2) These idiots had their chance to settle, they had their chance to put this down with non-disclosure agreements, and now they will experience the very public internet. Forever will public ~~moron~~ servants California Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet, Regional Manager Abigail Calva, and Deputy Labor Commissioner III Jorge Gomez be "googled." Those other idiots, Vanessa 'homewrecker whoreton' Holton, Anthony Mischel & Christopher Frick will just be the 3rd-rate legal paper pushers; it's not like they're gonna go into private practice anytime soon, and after 'googling' their names, what law firm would ever hire them? The other special-needs attorneys, Robert Jones & Richard Muñoz, are already forever googled once their resume pops up. It will be a quick connect between this blog & attorney BAR numbers.

3) The $2 million-dollar lawsuit Rosen filed is still out there, waiting for the SPB to adjudicate this to Superior Court, then Appeals Court, then Supreme Court. Everyday we get closer. Bradstreet was very dumb not to settle this, but she gonna learn the hard way, when I'm forcibly reinstated, just like Olga Garau (who might testify at the blogger's trial...can't wait!). I want my job back and I cannot wait to go back to Jorge Gomez, Abby Calva & Angela Bradstreet!

Why the Blogger will prevail:

A) Case Law

1) Kirchmann v. Lake Elsinore Unified School District

2) Garcetti v. Ceballos

3) Pickering v. Board of Education

4) Desert Palace v. Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins

5) Gordon v. Superior Court

6) Zurcher v. Stanford Daily

7) Connick v. Myers

8) State Board of Chiropractic Examiners v. Superior Court

9) Rojo v. Kliger

10) Miklosky v. Regents

11) Roby v. McKesson Corp.

12) Ruiz v. Campbell

13) O'Grady v. Superior Court

B) Rights under the law:

1) 1st Amendment of the US Constitution

2) 14th Amendment of the US Constitution

3) Article 1, Section 1 of the California Constitution (right of privacy)

4) Article 1, Section 2 of the California Constitution (right of speech)

5) The California Reporter's Shield

6) The Brown Act

7) The California Public Records Act

8) The California Whistleblower Act (Labor Code § 1102.5)

Trial now delayed until 1st week of Feb, 2011, then resumes 3rd week of May, 2011.....I just read Rosen's pre-trial brief and DLSE is in huge trouble!

2010-10-23T05:00:00.000-07:00

I will be very surprised if Jorge Gomez makes it through this trial without losing all of his hair. He, Calva & Bradstreet are still on the hook-each individually liable for what they did to me...and that is not going away anytime soon. Gomez is done, Calva is done, but most important of all, California Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet is done. Rosen's gonna teach her the hard way about employee relations, and when I'm given the green light...it will be public & unrelenting.

Make no mistake, the California State Personnel Board (SPB) is NOT here for the employee, but to protect its employer, the State of California. I have no doubt that the SPB will decide everything they can in DIRt's favor and deny Rosen everything he requests. All we will be doing is laying the foundation for a very successful appeal. Justice will not be served until it is returned to a real court, and that's where this is going. The Kangaroo Court called SPB should save itself the time & expense and just give us a Right To Sue letter, just like what DFEH does.

DIRt attorneys Tony Mischel & Chris Frick don't have the IQ points to understand that I will see this to the end. Not only is their case weak, but previous case law is 100% behind me...it's something called the US Constitution, and there's this other thing called Res Adjudicada-that thing which has already been judged.

In the words of Sun Tsu, this battle's over before it started.

SPB trial delayed...again...Badstreet, Michelle, Gomez smiling for the reprieve

2010-09-15T05:00:00.000-07:00

There will not be a budget until we change Governors, and that means I will not see a trial with SPB for forever...justice delayed, justice denied. Unless I get hit by a CalTrans truck, I will remain in the fight. My lawyer's requesting that this case be heard in federal court because I cannot have a trial with the SPB, and I am entitled to have a trial without unreasonable delay...got fired over two years ago and still no trial.

If Tony Mischel, Angela Bradstreet and the others want to prove up their case, then they should stiplulate to the sooner (and more expeditious) federal trial, but if they oppose my attorney's motion, then that tells you that the losing side only wants to delay, a common tactic with losing lawyers that have losing cases.

DIRt lawyer Christopher Frick (click pic to enlarge) nothing but a bottleneck for judges & taxpayers...

2010-07-20T06:00:00.000-07:00

So we have this meeting to streamline the hearing. If we can stipulate to authenticity & to relevance with certain documents, then that means a faster trial and less time in front of the annuitant judge.

Mark Rosen's an experienced & successful litigator who knows not to waste a judge's time, so he stipulates to whatever he can. Do you know what Anhtony Mischel & Christopher Frick do? They don't stipulate to a thing! They also want to (further) violate my Skelly rights by introducing more garbage to their case.

During the trial, Anthony Mischel's going to sit there & kiss the SPB judge's ass because that's all he knows how to do. He sits there and wastes time by talking about nothing. He starts every sentence with, "I think the real question is...," and then he babbles like a drunken fool for an hour or so. There's a reason why the Los Angeles DIRt legal office is on the same floor as the State Personnel Board - all day long they boot lick on the 6th floor and build rapport so that there's a comfortable acquaintance between DIRt & SPB.

Plus, these SPB judges are here to protect DIRt - they are not here to protect employees because at the end of the day their checks from Schwarzenegger. Their loyalty is to those that got them the promotion (to SPB judge), and those people cut their checks. Unfortunately, I will not get a fair trial until this is completely removed from state circles.

Blogger's trial postponed until October because fiduciary cranial-rectal inversion. Justice delayed = justice denied. Jorge Gomez has a 90-day...

2010-07-06T05:00:00.000-07:00

delay before blogger's attorney cross-examines him.I'm not sure if the fat-monkey-with-a-law-degree Anthony Mischel understands the Latin phrase res judicada, which means the blog has been dealt with already...idiot. DIRt's OD Legal team of monkeys even typed the question, "...did the blog show a potential for disruption...?" The judge said no. DIRt appealed her decision, then they withdrew their appeal, then fired me. It's already been decided, and good luck having some other judge try to over-ride Judge Fell's decision.

If the SPB decides to give me some idiot "I'm gonna protect the Dept. of Industrial Retaliation" Gov Gropenator boot-licker, then we'll be there for the appeal. I only hope that the SPB's gonna be smart enough to give me & DIRt someone who's fair and who will not give my attorney the grounds for a winning appeal. If this is their battle plan, then it's just another delaying tactic to get us to file a Writ. I can wait for that, too.

I plan on filing the writ anyway, since the last ALJ at SPB was a total nitwit who thought he was above res juducada.

Santa Ana DLSE office/Wage Claims just as inefficient as ever...for JUNE

2010-06-08T06:00:00.000-07:00

HEARINGS SCHEDULED FOR JUNE
Jim Jackson, eighteen (18) hearings
Maria Valdez, three (3) hearings
Danny Dumbar, one (1) hearing

Danny Dumbar has perfected the art of Touch-your-desk-and-leave.

The DLSE Los Angeles office is required to send a Hearing Officer to try and reduce their workload because Jorge Gomez cannot effectively manage the Santa Ana office and Abigael Calva cannot effectively manage Jorge Gomez.

After all of their collective years of managerial service, Abigael & Jorge can only scratch their heads and shrug their shoulders in confusion as to why the Santa Ana office is so inefficient...don't worry, it will go on the record soon enough.

DIRt flunky attorneys need to understand reality a bit better...firstamendmentcenter.org - First Amendment traditions get 21st century tweak

2010-06-06T06:00:00.000-07:00

Click here to read link.... This is what it says, for the most part.

A federal appellate judge’s simple solutions in a recent ruling for those confronted with repugnant e-mail messages — engage in debate or hit the delete button on your computer — have deep roots in First Amendment law. They involve the counter-speech doctrine and the “avert your eyes” rationale.

..."granted the defendants qualified immunity because he determined that Kehowski's obnoxious emails did not constitute harassment"
Unmasking anonymous bloggers
The Supreme Court has made clear that anonymous speech deserves First Amendment protection. In Talley v. California, the Court wrote: “Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind.” Several Founding Fathers published historic political articles anonymously. James Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton wrote the 85 essays in The Federalist Papers under the pen name “Publius.”

For those of you that are intellectually impaired, like Anthony Mischel, Steve McQuinty, Jorge Gomez, Abby Calva, Angie Badstreet, Vanessa Whoreton et al...justice is coming and cannot wait.

The Governator loses his furlough of state employees, GAS legal team appealed judge's decision

2010-03-14T05:00:00.000-07:00

Click here to read Sacramento Bee story. Literally, GAS has nothing to lose by appealing. He's out the door soon enough. He can continue to delay by appealing, which is typical in his administration. Someone with some time on their hands should post how many GAS lawsuits were filed under his watch, how many he lost, how many he appealed, and how many he won.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to be updated of DLSE/DIRt abuses

2010-02-08T00:00:00.000-08:00

The EFF will soon be updated as to the abuse the DLSE inflicted by terminating the blogger for having the blog. Of course, DIRt legal scumbags like Vanessa Whore-ton and Tony Mischel will need a real big strategy session after having visited the case law on EFF's website.

Once legal guru Mark Rosen pierces through Whore-ton's and Badstreet's false veil of "terminated for cause," they are gonna look really liable for losing (even) more money that belongs to the California taxpayer. Whore-ton & Badstreet are experts when it comes to suppressing the illegalities of DIRt management, but they are infantile morons when it comes to doing the right thing to a protected public servant Whistleblower that continued to divulge DLSE Fraud, Waste & Abuse as a state employee.

Danny Dumbar, hired by Santa Ana DLSE mgr Jorge Gomez, perfects the "touch desk & leave" policy on behalf of California taxpayers!

2010-02-04T00:00:00.000-08:00

Danny Dumbar is out of sick leave and he needs his taxpayer-paid money. He finally figured out a way to keep his paycheck and to not do anything. He touches his desk and then he leaves. Of course, he literally doesn't "touch" his desk then leaves, but what he does is he generally arrives at 10am and leaves at about 2pm - probably takes his lunch, too! Hearing Officers are exempt from overtime, so as long as he shows up to work, then he really ain't gotta do any work.

Since Regional Manager Abigael Calva is scared sh*tless of having her Hearing Officers record their time on any daily logs, there's no "evidence" of how Dumbar spends his time. Literally, he should either be holding hearings or writing the hearing decisions; everything else Dumbar does is minutia, like scheduling and counter duty.

Jorge Gomez, Santa Ana's long-time, wage claim supervisory idiot, hired Danny Dumbar back when Danny was just a low-level moron in Long Beach. Apparently, Jorge found someone dumber than him. In California state employment this is important because a moron like Danny Dumbar makes Jorge Gomez look smart, and this is very important in state service because it's not about helping the taxpayers, it's about career self-preservation and special interests. Don't forget that it was Jorge Gomez that bent over, literally, in trying to help his boss Lupe Almaraz in violating my rights in which a superior court told Lupe Almaraz that what he did was illegal, but I digress.

Danny Dumbar had 35 "decisions" to write up, meaning that Danny held the 35 hearings but didn't formally write up the decisions, so instead of Jorge Gomez doing Danny Dumbar's work, Jorge Gomez told his two other hearing officers to do Danny Dumbar's job by writing the decisions on behalf of Dumbar. Jorge Gomez's immediate boss, Abigael Calva, is all pissed off about it, but she's trying to keep it hush-hush and away from upper management's attention.

Well, I'm sure that Rick Rice, Dean Fryer, Tony Mischel, Steve "Powder" McSquinty, or whoever else commits Fraud, Waste, and Abuse by using state time, i.e., taxpayer money, to monitor this blog will tell them to hurry up and cover their tracks so no one else starts poking their nose where it don't belong.

Abby Calva wants the Santa Ana DLSE settlement conference deputies to have a "cattle call" conferences in March, 2010 and then she wants the Santa Ana Hearing Officers to have their "cattle call" hearings in April, 2010. She's so desparate that she's resorting to giving up complete control to Jorge Gomez, only to have Jorge Gomez not get the job done! Go Jorge!

All the comments with the adjectives.....(see below post & comments)

2010-01-15T05:00:00.000-08:00

I neither care about one's sexual preference nor their religious affiliation...unless they are muslim extremists and/or their personal preferences makes them biased in their ability to properly function in their official state capacity.

That being said, it's a shame that people still sleep/blow their way to the middle...not even to the top. Whether there is a Susan Kennedy/Angela Bradstreet "connection," or a Susan Nakagama/pick-any-Labor-Commissioner "connection," the public still has been screwed by DIRt/DLSE. This pro-Terminator agenda has come to screw over the majority of Californians.

When someone like Victoria Bradshaw selects horrible people like Greg Rupp, Jose Millan, Angela Bradstreet and Robert Jones to run California into the ground, then it is the majority of Californians who are victims of Victoria Bradshaw's political agenda-set forth by Arnold Schwarzenegger, her only boss.

Here's how it typically plays: Big corporations like Brinker pay a lotta money for people like Arnold instead of Grey Davis. Once Arnold's in, he installs puppets like Jose & Victoria to carry out agendas that favor Brinker. Everyday people don't contribute $$$$$ so no one listens to them-this is how it works in a current Democracy.Where do you think the money went for that $10,000,000 abortion called CMS? Private contracters that made a lotta money off the backs of the taxpayers. The last time I checked, Brinker was not a proper representative of the "People of California;" they are a minority, unlike the common taxpayer within California, who are the majority.

Instead, Arnold's puppets represent special interests with $$$ so the majority of Californians are screwed. People who make noise about this within DIRt/DLSE walls are harassed and terminated; that's what I did, and I did it on my own time. Their day of accountability is coming, every day brings me one more day closer to becoming reinstated and I only hope that one day a jury see fit to take Angela Bradstreet's million+ house in Marin County and donate it to the homeless.

Comment posted by someone who knows the state, knows DIRt, and knows that DLSE/DIR violated the law

2009-12-30T04:00:00.000-08:00

Let me set a few things straight:

1) The blogger was NOT fired (or even close to being fired) from his federal position. He resigned to take a job with the state, a job that required a background investigation. Obviously, he passed.

2) The person accused of fellatio is not a private figure, rather a high ranking State official. The higher up you are in state service, the more public a person you become, especially when you are associated with the agency that employs you (i.e. through legal decisions, press releases etc.) This person most certainly is considered a public person, in regards to the DIR/DLSE.

3) Conversely, a lower level employee is considered more of a private person, because the general public does not associate you with the employing agency. While employed at DIR, the blogger was not a high ranking employee and certainly not associated with DIR by the general public.
These definitions of public vs. private person are from the state's basic supervision course.

4) This blog was published anonymously, and its existence does not make the blogger a public
person. His identity was not known until the DIR 'outed' him, violating his civil rights. He filed suit against DIR and prevailed.

It is clear that you are trying to slam the blogger, but at least have your facts straight. You obviously have little knowledge about the DIR/DLSE and its management, and how state agencies function.

DIR/DLSE is probably one of the worst run state agencies. The joke (made by a long standing DLSE supervisor) was the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement has no labor standards of its own. Pretty sad commentary by its management that the agency tasked to enforce labor law couldn't follow the law.

That's why this blog was started. This agency actually generates revenue, but upper management's mismanagement ultimately wastes money and at the end of the day, negatively impacts the public that relies on its services.

# posted by Anonymous : 12/29/2009 12:35 AM

2009-12-07T04:49:00.000-08:00

From anonymous comment:

"ATTN: Blogger: Garau had no less than 4 cases against DOSH/DIRt, and she was rejected by asking her inept secty(s) to pull some files for her. Yes, she's a real bonafide LAWYER who didn't play along with the boys/aka STEVE (albino-ugly) McGINTY/aka (fat-assed) TONY MISCHELLE, and she IS real female in power...unlike the fake-n-phoney disgusting-to-female-race white-trash vEnessa IMA WHOREton who had to blow the entire DIRECTOR's staff, starting with the former/current director(s) to date."

Wow. So there exists in DIRt a female that didn't blow her way to the top, then they tried to get rid of her, then they failed, and then they think that their case against the Blogger will prevail? These morons in public service should spend less time attempting to succeed in their failing self-serving vindictiveness and more time serving the public.

What these morons don't understand is that they need just a few competent staff members to keep their hollow statistics afloat...in the event that some agency or taxpayer starts filing Public Records Act requests. Vanessa Whore-ton doesn't "get it" because she's dumb and used another method to advance her career....gulp!

DIR employee Olga H. Garau finally rec'd justice: DIRt morons Tony Mischelle & Vanessa Whore-ton still can't get it right!

2009-11-25T05:00:00.000-08:00

If Vanessa Whore-ton's legal acuity was as good as her fellatio skills....oh wait - they are not! If I was LLoyd Aubrey, I'd kick that skank to the curb...worthless, good for nothing and stupid.

State of California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Four, Case # B210335. Olga Garau v. SPB and DIRt...the gist of it...click here to print

10/12/05: Garau hired as a DIRt lawyer
04/05/06: DIRt puts Garau on admin leave, intending to reject her probation
04/11/06: DIRt screws up their final deadline date, prompting appeal

The ALJ who heard the case sustained Vanessa Whore-ton's rejection...big shock there that the ALJ whore themselves to the Department they're protecting

09/04/07: SPB rejects the ALJ decision and immediately reinstates Garau
DIRt appeals too late (no date specified-shocking!)
01/08/08: SPB denies DIRt's rehearing request
02/22/08: DIRt files Writ of Mandate
03/11/08: Garau files cross-petition
05/29/08: Hearing held, court intends to side with DIRt!
06/26/08: 2nd hearing decided & judgment entered, against Garau & for DIRt!
Garau files timely appeal
10/19/09: Appellate Court overturns court decision, reinstates Garau and states that the triel court erred when "starting from scratch" Garau's entire employment with the state.

DISCUSSION: these a-holes at the Dept. of Industrial Relations - Anthony Mischel, Venessa "Ima Whore" Holton, Angela Bradstreet, Victoria Bradshaw, the entire Feces 10 are just the tip of the poo-poo iceberg at DIRt. The SPB ordered Garau reinstated and DIRt refused to comply with that order, a direct violation of Government Code Section 18710. Not only that, but Garau requested immediate reinstaement no less than four times...only to be ignored by DIRt. Once again, these douchebags think that they are above the law, that they can do anything they want whenever they want and that they are accountable to no one.

These DIRt lawyers...ha! They cannot figure out the final day for a rejection from probation deadline...do you really think that they can handle Mark Rosen? He's a very skilled litigator with a great case. Unless the Blogger gets run over by a CalTrans truck....they gonna lose hard...they got no case and they got no skills! Congrats to Olga Garau for representing herself, going the entire distance (from 2005 to 2009), and having the courage to face the entire DIRty crew of whores, cheats, liars and thieves. Vanessa Holton makes Angela Bradstreet look like Victoria Bradshaw! Tony Mischel still just looks like an older, fatter, straighter version of Dean Fryer...just as dumb, just as icky!

DIRt management keeps pissing off the taxpayers...this only proves that my serving the public and not DLSE ass-clowns was right & true: I will win

2009-11-11T04:00:00.000-08:00

This was a comment posted earlier, so I thought I would cut & paste it and let the general public read it. If DIRt/DLSE cannot comply with the simplest of tasks, then those morons should be terminated and replaced immediately. 'Tards like Jorge Gomez, Angela Badstreet, Abby Calva, Vanessa Holton, and Vick "the dick" Bradshaw have not only proven themselves to be unfit for public service but also have proven themselves to be self-serving bureaucrats that only enrich themselves and their careers.

In short this is my admitted “venting” to DLSE/DIR hypocrisy, where they have proven time and time again that they have no respect for any rational argument - in this case in regard to fundamental due process and the California Public Records Act. It is addressed to DIR Chief Deputy Director David Rowan. For a complete copy of my fax to this degenerate public clown, please email me at heliocen@hotmail.com

“In regard to my PRA requests and your conclusions that somehow the hearing recording gaps have been explained; how can we explain this 27 minute first afternoon hearing record gap? DLSE Padres’ reasoning about this stated that the disc recordings ran out of time with the disc’s limitations and HO Murphy failed to change to a new disc in time, correct? How can Padres and you explain that the first morning recording is 80 minutes long and the first afternoon recording stops abruptly at 53 minutes? The 27 minute gap must also be the time lapse between your active brain cells if you accept such an unfounded conclusion as you tacitly have by not addressing its absurdity. In fact you stated that it was “plausible explanations for the discrepancies in the hearing recordings”, which I interpret as your big fat lie. What could have been the motivation by Padres’ wonderfully short-sighted theory? She wouldn’t just make this leaky theory up and you accept it because you both want to kiss the status quo’s big kahuna butt? We must all admit that self-preservation is the law of the jungle and must be the prime motivator of all the denizens on the DLSE and DIR turf equally as I’ve observed in scaling its hierarchy. I guess this is the closest you’ll ever come to a democratic entity, acting in unison as a herd species in blind, stupid agreement. And in regard to these DLSE and DIR purposeful nonactions that are perniciously designed not to enforce the labor laws or observe due process while steadfastly refusing to weigh any evidence to the contrary, I’m reminded of the powerful metaphor in Orwell’s Animal Farm: “Four legs good, two legs bad”, where the pigs eventually act like their masters. Which in your case translates to the engine that was intended to protect laborers, now exploits them. This hypocrisy begets the worst kind of cronyism where everyone’s motive is fear of exposing this cynicism and a compulsion to watch out for everyone else’s butt at the expense of what was suppose to be a functioning, humane institution. If you don’t believe me take a look at the “DLSE/Dir(t)” graffiti that your own employees have desperately resorted to at http://nolaborstandards.blogspot.com.

In summary, I can understand the evolutionary process behind say a dung beetle on dung patrol. At least his efforts might benefit the dung beetle colony. While at the DIR/DLSE the shit only mucks up the works for those honest, hard-working Californians like me who have sought justice at these state agencies. I, like many others, have been ripped off by abysmally corrupt imposters like you who pretend to uphold the labor laws and maintain due process. The DLSE and DIR have proved themselves a disgrace and should be confined to the histories of the Third Reich, witch burnings and other abhorrent anachronisms that have obstructed the path of human progress.”

The latest, but it may be dated....

2009-11-04T03:00:00.000-08:00

So the morons at DLSE: Jorge Gomez, Angie Badstreet, and Abby Calva are not gonna be having fun in about a year and a half. If they keep hoping that I'll get hit by a bus or a car & thus avoid losing litigation, then they might want to think about settling and giving me my job back, because I will be coming back since those 'tards cannot & will not have the authority to settle this, especially given California's financial 'tardation.

Congrats to Susanita Parker for having the largest caseload in the shortest amount of time while employed as a DLC I! This will come back to bite Jorge Gomez in the ass during his deposition as well as Abby Calva because they're constantly looking at the monthly stats! I cannot wait for jorge to be all-nervous and then pretend memory loss! You know what they say...moron at deposition, moron at trial!

I have heard that Kimchi Vu is nothing more than a Hearing Scheduler and her conferences are bullsh*t. In light of the furlogh, she spends half of her time on the 4th floor where her only Vietnamese friends hang, Jorge knows she disappears and does nothing. All Kim does is set her stuff to hearing, and she has all three hearing Officers working for her. Exactly, what the hell is California paying her for, since she does not settle wage claims? How much should the taxpayer pay for some desk jockey to process paperwork that my blind monkey can process? Moving on....

DLSE tells one of their Hearing Officers to reduce the 1,000+ hours of accrued vacation in some systematic plan, only to rescind the order because that actually means that the hearing Officer will be gone for hundreds of hours....hand to God, these morons could not find their butthole with a funnel.

Did DLSE Supervisor Jorge Gomez tell attorney that a wage claim case was more important than a Superior Court appearance?

2009-09-24T05:00:00.000-07:00

I gotta hand it to Jorge Gomez, he has consistently remained stupid for 50+ years. Normally, people this dumb walk in front of buses, stick forks in electrical outlets, or try to load a DVD player while taking a bath.

So Monday, Sep. 21st, a lawyer has a concurrent wage claim and must appear in Superior Court. He asks Jorge Gomez to delay the wage claim, and Jorge Gomez tells him "No." Let me back up. That Hearing Officer in Santa Ana, Dumb-Bar, told the attorney that he had to put the request in writing...I never saw that in the Labor Code, but I digress. Gomez, once again, tries to be a baby shot-caller, and he keeps making the wrong call.

To make a long story short, the Orange County Superior Court told Gomez that he had better re-think his weak position (not exact quote), to which Gomez bent over and changed his mind. The attorney stayed in Superior Court and the wage claim was delayed...nothing new in Gomez's house, as he is very consistent in making the wrong decision.

I cannot wait for his upcoming deposition...cannot wait!

Civil Rights lawsuit filed against Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet, Regional Manager Abigael Calva and Supervisor Jorge Gomez for

2009-08-26T05:00:00.000-07:00

First Cause of Action
Damages and Injunctive Relief under 42 U.S.C. §1983

Second Cause of Action
Violation of Rights Under State Law

Third Cause of Action
Violation of Fair Employment and Housing Act

Fourth Cause of Action
Whistleblowing

It's a real shame that the Labor Commissioner took a course of action that resulted in the filing of this lawsuit. It's a real shame that Abigael Calva and Jorge Gomez will spend their remaining years (before retiring) in depositions and their futile attempt to explain and justify what they did to me.

Here's a little hint for the morons....wait until we take a look at how they vigorously protected Vicky Tamoush versus how they secretly turned over every paper clip to justify their job actions against me. Those statistics that are being generated for Jackson's upcoming personnel action...we'll see those same gender-bending stats again in due time (75% of all hires & promotions in the last two years at DLSE were women, 25% men...3 to 1...not really EEO/DEFH compliance, huh?).

We have all the time in the world to get those stats lined up for the judge. Since the violations have already occurred, it will be incredibly hard for them to whitewash those stats, stats that will corroborate what I've been whistleblowing about all along.

Gov. A-hole thumping chest about state vehicle abuse. How about Gov. A-hole starts with Abigael Calva's car, or do rich females

2009-07-19T08:41:00.000-07:00

get to use taxpayer-paid cars because it's a rich girl's world when Angela Badstreet's in charge at DLSE!

This is a 09.18.09 Los Angeles Times article about Gov. A-hole's half-hearted attempted to reign in spending like a drunken sailor. GAS can stop California's circling the drain by firing all of his half-wit advisers @ $150,000+/yr. When the sex-for-promotion state employees are no longer in a position of LWDA/DIR/DLSE control, then we can begin to clean it up.

Vanessa Holton, Abigael Calva, Denise Padres, Susan Nakagama, and Victoria Bradshaw can resign, turn in their taxpayer-paid vehicles, and make room for those that can do the job (with a minimum of taxpayer-paid waste).

Blogger's case is continued, Jorge Gomez & Abigael Calva personally-named in Whistleblower Retaliation suit-plus-secret leak of DLSE sickout memo

2009-07-14T21:00:00.000-07:00

DIRt attorney Tony Mischel, while comfortable on the 6th floor, might not want to get too comfortable. The sooner the case is removed from the umbrella of Governor Gropenator, the sooner I can get a fair shake. Tony Mischel totally downplayed & minimized the whistleblower claims of CMS (fraud, waste, abuse) and the attempt to falsify the SPB's own Language Survey.

Unless DIRt is gonna promise Tony Mischel liposuction and a flabby-skin ectomy, I don't know why he'd do anything more than half-ass his legal work when Governor Grope-My-Breasts is jamming him with furloughs & pay reductions. Let Jorge Gomez & Abby Calva hire their own lawyers...unless they got their orders from hire up the food chain, their actions seemed very personal. Were they acting under orders-thus making DLSE liable, or did they go off the reservation and do their own thing?

Here's the memo that just came out...DLSE's afraid of a sickout on Wednesday, July 15th. Isn't Culbeaux the same clown that's responsible for the $10,000,000+ CMS computer software abortion? With regards to comments...please send the names of DIR employees who have knowledge of CMS' true cost overrun, payoffs, etcetera so we can prove up the financial abuse of those who have a responsible charge to the taxpayers...thanks

Latest from DIRt-Davenport's phone testimony, DLSE's CRO says that Broadwater & Jackson were secretly placed under surveillance...

2009-06-20T03:00:00.000-07:00

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.

Governor Steroid is clueless as he was faithful....more $$$ DLSE/DIRt fraud, waste, and abuse

2009-06-10T08:21:00.000-07:00

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 ~~scumbag~~ Toni Michelle is gonna give Rosen every opportunity to publicly humiliate the DLSE's incompetence, ineptness & insolvency (hit-CMS). Davenport is just one of many slices of crow that DLSE will be eating-the sooner the better.

Hopefully these douchebags will not ask for a delay and we can get this party started. There's no need for the douchebags to have a delay since it's their case and they should be fully prepared for their trial THE DAY THEY FIRED ME!

Blogger rec'd this from anonymous source...quoted below

2009-05-20T05:00:00.000-07:00

"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.

Received from anonymous source...read below...the DLSE should be eliminated by the Governor to save billions in the California budget

2009-05-18T00:00:00.000-07:00

"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).

DLSE Wage Claim stats for the Santa Ana office as of today

2009-05-14T12:31:00.000-07:00

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!

April, 2009 update of the Santa Ana DLSE office (names were deliberately changed to protect the innocent)

2009-04-21T21:00:00.000-07:00

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.

Women completely protected at DLSE: Lenora Lewis, Angel David, etc. didn't get suspended like that man the Denise Padres suspended for those emails!

2009-02-10T05:00:00.000-08:00

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.

DLSE employee files grievance against Deputy Chief Denise Padres, then Padres suspends employee for using emails about telework/union activities!

2009-02-03T06:00:00.000-08:00

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.

Did DLSE Deputy Chief Denise Padres leave her husband for Victor Jurado, the subordinate just promoted under her command? Plus SPB update

2009-01-27T04:45:00.000-08:00

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.

DLSE personnel changes, some good, some bad

2009-01-23T04:04:00.000-08:00

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!

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?

2008-12-23T06:00:00.000-08:00

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."

will Jorge Gomez ever clean his desks? Spending time on post-it notes doesn't make him ready for a DLC IV promotion

2008-12-22T05:30:00.000-08:00

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.

Will the DLSE bureaucrat who orgainzed the recent Los Angeles Wage Claim training please resign?

2008-12-08T05:36:00.000-08:00

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.

GAS, always looking for a way to help his corporate contributors, still wants meal & rest periods to go away

2008-11-07T05:00:00.000-08:00

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.

BSA slams DIRt in their report (click pic to enlarge)

2008-10-24T05:00:00.000-07:00

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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.

Republicans enrich themselves, just like DIRt/DLSE enriching those that do not need their help...CMS, WalMart, Brinker, Kenneth Cole, etc.

2008-10-23T05:00:00.000-07:00

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. ~~This just in: VP candidate Joe Biden just got a $100 gift certificate from Men's Wearhouse.~~

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!

2008-10-10T06:00:00.000-07:00

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.

We should privatize social security, so we can have the government invest in Bear Sterns, Lehman Bros., Washington Mutual, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac,

2008-10-09T17:20:00.000-07:00

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.

DLSE eunuch mgr. Jorge Gomez has highest DLC caseload in state: 500+ with a goal of 750 open cases per conference holder!

2008-10-08T16:14:00.000-07:00

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.

File this one under, "I'm not surprised..."

2008-10-06T06:00:00.000-07:00

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 !

Sarah Palin's "sky is falling" interview, US financial mess explained in 2 minutes, and GAS's 85 days late budget...

2008-09-25T04:00:00.000-07:00

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.

Anyone who needs Spanish in Santa Ana will continue to be screwed, but CMS got their $10,000,000+ taxpayer funds

2008-09-23T06:00:00.000-07:00

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.

Privatized Profit, Socialized Loss: the $1 Trillion dollar bailout, but John McCain says that US economy fundamentally strong...HA!

2008-09-23T05:00:00.000-07:00

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?

Dow Jones drops more than 500 points, but John McCain says that the economy is strong...

2008-09-15T05:00:00.000-07:00

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.

The $80,000+ taxpayer waste is the tip of the iceberg: how much wasted in state salaries??????

2008-09-09T04:00:00.000-07:00

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.

What cost the taxpayers $80,000+ that could have cost them nothing?

2008-09-07T05:00:00.000-07:00

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.

Years later and Santa Ana DLSE still has no safety barrier...

2008-09-02T05:00:00.000-07:00

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.

I'm voting Republican because:

2008-08-27T05:00:00.000-07:00

- 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)

Businesses who rec'd citations from DIRt should act just like DIRt: fight, delay, and refuse to pay!

2008-08-24T05:00:00.000-07:00

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.

Skelly Hearing for Blogger's termination finished at lightning speed...the kangaroo court continues

2008-08-18T04:00:00.000-07:00

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.

Santa Ana jota supervisor does it again, but this time he screws over the entire settlement conference staff

2008-08-13T06:00:00.000-07:00

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 ~~puta~~ mgr. Jorge Gomez directed the secretary to start re-assigning the blogger's caseload to all of the other staff...Jorge, if you are going to eff them, at least kiss them first! What happened to the replacement deputy? What's the average caseload for settlement deputies in Santa Ana now? Gomez certainly does more with less.

According to the Dept. of Personnel Administration, cranial rectal inversion is not covered under approved sick leave....there is no cure.

DIRt protects their own: this house is about to be levied because DIRt continues to give the "f*ck you" to Judge Fell's order

2008-08-12T05:00:00.000-07:00

Click pic to enlarge.

The douchebags at DIRt are still racking up the taxpayers' bill. The cost of enforcing and collecting a civil judgment can be added to the judgment. The Feces 10 insist upon giving Judge Fell the middle finger by ignoring her order, so now bank accounts and houses will be levied and wages will be garnished upon former Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz for his violating the blogger's rights. The longer the Feces 10 dicks around and gives the collective "eff you" to Judge Fell, the taxpayer bill is only getting bigger.

The Feces 10 can do this & will continue to do this because it's not their money: it's your money, and they don't give a shit about your money. Just ask for an accounting of the $10,000,000+ computer software abortion called CMS

Taxpayer-paid bottomless pit being used to harass & retaliate against blogger, more taxpayer waste like CMS & Robert Jones' salary...

2008-08-08T05:22:00.000-07:00

Click pic to enlarge & read. OD legal, Victoria Bradshaw, Robert Jones, John Duncan, Angela Bradstreet: the list of taxpayer waste never ends. They will fight to the taxpayer's very last dime on this, which is not remotely near the DLSE's Mission Statement. If they spent $10,000,000+ of the taxpayer's money on that CMS abortion, you don't think they'll pay the salaries of 3 or 5 OD Legal douchebags to keep the blogger out of state service?

Robert Jones was so much of a douchebag to be rejected of his political appointment, but he was a loyal bitch (female dog), so Blondie found him a job that doesn't require senate confirmation to the tune of $125,000+ per year. You know what he does? He sits on his fat ass while the California Bear craps into his direct deposit once a month. The taxpayers are footing that freebie, and Jones has nothing to show for his 8 hours of pay for 8 hours of work...that's the grift.

The DLSE and DIR douchebags do not care about punitive damages, compensatory damages, or actual damges because it's not their money...it's the taxpayer's money. It's a bottomless pit for them to squander & waste. $100,000? Who cares! $450,000? Not mine! $10,000,000? Doesn't matter! If I steal $20 worth of gas and put it in my private car, I get fired, but if Lupe Almaraz instigates a lawsuit and loses a hundred thousand dollars of the taxpayer's money, then he's promoted to the Chair of the California Agricultural Relations Board at $125,000+ per year....government corruption and kickbacks at its finest.

Lawsuit's final...Judge fell awarded all court fees to blogger, even the cost of the expert witness: boot-licker Dean Fryer will prolly comment that..

2008-08-07T06:00:00.000-07:00

the blogger is still a loser, even though every court decision & motion has been ruled in the blogger's favor. That's how smart the lawyers at DIRt are. These are the same big brains that f*cked the taxpayer with CMS, the ten million dollar plus abortion where not one douche rec'd so much as a counseling memo for this grand theft of taxpayer funds.

The ~~home-wrecking~~ skank called Vanessa Holton (Chief Counsel-DIRt OD Legal) has no less than 3 asshole OD-Legal attorneys on trying to lose a few more lawsuits...works for me. How exactly did Vanessa Holton and Lloyd Aubrey get together? Wasn't Lloyd married at the time? Wasn't he Labor Commissioner at the time? Was this the same time that someone saw then Labor Commissioner Lloyd Aubrey and current DLSE Regional Manager Abigael Calva getting REAL snuggly in an elevator, right before Lloyd got Calva promoted? Wasn't Abigael Calva married to that USC dentist at the time of the snuggly elevator scene? Anything for a promotion, huh? Ethics? What's that? Marriage committment, huh? Do you think that Vanessa Holton and Abigael Calva ever discuss Lloyd Aubrey and compare notes to establish a timeline of "significant" events...who was where and when?

All I gotta say is this: the asshole at work is the asshole at the restaurant and is the asshole at home. That being said, the cheater at home is the cheater at work and is the cheater at Catholic confession.

Commenters like Dean Fryer & Jim Culbeaux are taking their stoopid pills again

2008-08-05T05:00:00.000-07:00

When you set a double digit IQ person loose upon the internet, then moronic comments multiply like DIRt's ~~sexual promotion system~~ CMS contract fee payments.

Let's see if I follow the commenter's logic: employer breaks state labor laws and somehow it's the fault of the settlement conference deputy? That's like wanting to fault & subsequently sue the homicide detective for all the murders he solved. That's a great argument...run with it!

DIRt f*cks the taxpayer with CMS, DIRt violates the US Constitution, DIRt only promotes political butt kissers, and all of DIRt's problems would magically disappear if it were not for 1 settlement deputy...oh, that's rich! All of this done under a Republican administration...let's not forget the chief douchebag, Robert Jones, who was so slimy and worthless that he couldn't get one vote towards his political appointment, and then that other douchebag LWDA secretary Victoria Bradshaw gave him some stoopid title and a $125,000+/yr. taxpayer paycheck.

You're right...it's the fault of only the messenger! When you're finished with your moron pills, lemme know when you need a refill. When Republicans are in charge, soldiers die, taxes go towards special interest, and it's always the employee's fault (the one with no power & wealth)

Governator's FEDERAL minimum wage & not even CALIFORNIA minimum wage?? Why are you not walking out in protest? You should party like Whore-hay Gomez!

2008-08-01T06:00:00.000-07:00

I love his minimum wage party hat! I want one to celebrate the Governor effing his own workers, oh but wait, I don't f*ck state workers.

If the state insists on not living up to its contractual obligations, then state workers should walk out and not work. DLCs have this "no walkout" clause, and without a contract and with this minimum wage shoved up their asses, they should reciprocate the favor.

I'd rather get $0 per hour and not work than have to listen to Whore-hay Gomez banter at a staff meeting for $6.55 per hour...just shoot me now!

DIRt's OD Legal and Labor Commissioner douchebags finally got their wish, they get to beat up the blogger in the SPB, DIRt's ass-coverage agency

2008-07-31T18:00:00.000-07:00

The State Personnel Board (SPB) is the same f*cked up department that said DLSE's previous DLC III exam was A-okay, 4 people got one score, 21 people got another score: the same score for all 21 candidates!

Make no mistake that the SPB is there to protect DIRt if it can, and they will use every trick in the book to protect them. For example, the SPB issues a list of judges and each party is allowed to strike out 1 judge. If I strike out a judge, then that strike constitutes a waiver of time, so that means the SPB can take 3+ years to dick around with the case. If DIRt strikes out a judge, then nothing happens...they get to knock out a judge and we can't. Does that sound fair, judicious, and equal? Nope. That's why the SPB isn't a real court; it's a kangaroo court, but I'm forced to play in it.

DLSE did it: Blogger's been terminated by Angela Bradstreet

2008-07-26T05:00:00.000-07:00

Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet reviewed, approved, and signed the adverse action. It will be appealed to the State Personnel Board. Officially, I'm separated August 6th.

DLSE Police Officers Frank Capetillo and Lee Pearson trespass on private property to serve paid administrative leave notice

2008-07-25T04:00:00.000-07:00

So DLSE peace officers Frank Capetillo and Lee Pearson get kicked by someone higher up the food chain to serve this, so what else is new? I'm sure I can find it in the DLSE PPM (Policy & Procedures Manual) that peace officers serve administrative actions like this all the time. It's normal, right?

I'm sure Lee didn't want to wake up at 4am in Temecula (and Frank at 5am in Alhambra), but that's no excuse (to lay in wait) for a vehicle to trigger entry into a gated community and illegally trespass. That's what the DLSE cops did; they broke the law to personally serve a paid administrative leave notice? I forgot, DLSE cops break the law to intimidate, because there was no other way to serve this notice. What was the sense of urgency, again? Whore-hay Gomez could not stand to ignore another email where non-existent policies and procedures were requested?

What a shock that the DLSE continues to give Judge Fell the middle finger by ignoring her court order, what a shock that DLSE cops trespass on private property, and what a shock that they retaliated against the blogger.

Jorge Gomez approves alternative work schedules for women but not for men. Female managers approve of such sexism?

2008-07-22T21:00:00.000-07:00

This is the latest. Even though Gov. Schwarzenegger wants telework and alternative work schedules (AWS), Whore-hay Gomez only doles out the AWS to women.

Labor Standards has no Labor Standards. Whore-hay allows his female staff to "cherry-pick" case files because easy case files are easy closures for stats. Most of Whore-hay's life has been managed by women: 1 wife, 3 daughters, 3 female bosses, and 9 female subordinates.

What Gomez doesn't understand, as well as Calva, Bradstreet, Bradshaw, Jones, Mischel, Munoz, McGinty & Holton don't understand is that they are not fixing the problem. The DLSE f*cked up and violated my civil rights, and the ones who screwed up are the ones that gotta make it right; it ain't up to me to make it right. If someone gotta extend the olive branch, it's the DLSE that must do it first.

You'd think that these monkeys would only want me in the office four days a week instead of five days a week, but I guess Jorge and his idiot bosses want me reporting his idiocy five days a week...maybe I'd ease off the throttle with these *ssholes if they would just stop constantly trying to sh*t on my career every step of the way. They got me boxed into a corner where I got nothing to lose (no hope of promotion, no AWS, no telework, constantly being f*cked with, etc.).

Instead of giving me the stick, they should try the carrot

Current update: CMS still screwed the taxpayers for $10-million plus, and not one DLSE douchebag has been charged with this felony

2008-07-19T04:00:00.000-07:00

Pro-management ass-sucks can hate on me all they want with their anti-blogger comments (I'll keep deleting only those), and yeah-some of my colorful adjectives are juvenile.

It doesn't change the fact that the assholes responsible for the $10-million+ abortion called CMS never got so much as a f*cking counseling memo for such taxpayer waste, but they have all the time in the world to harass me and to give the collective middle finger to the Judge Fell and the judge's order.

In their desperate attempt to get rid of me, they tried to intimidate me with OD-Legal investigations, and that didn't work. Then, they tried to solicit complaints by members of the public, and that didn't work. Then, they order Jorge Gomez to give me a bullshit performance evaluation after doing a solid job for him for two years, and that didn't work. Currently, they are secretly reviewing case files and trying to find anything to sink their teeth into. There's nothing there because I do the job. They can keep harassing me: Duncan and Rosen have the timeline.

Jorge Gomez couldn't investigate his way out of a paper bag, yet the management ass-hats are telling him to find something, and it's placing him in a stressful situation; he's going balder by the minute. That's why he took the 90 days of "whatever" after the Rowene Diaz lawsuit. He makes problems worse.

Supervisor Whore-hay Gomez moved Hearing Officer Jim Jackson's office so Whore-hay could have the biggest office in Santa Ana...go Whore-hay!

2008-07-07T05:00:00.000-07:00

This is how arrogant, dim-witted, and short-sighted DLSE supervisor Jorge "Whore-hay' Gomez is as well as why Gomez has no friends in the Santa Ana office. Hearing Officer Jackson needs a big office so he can accomodate Plaintiffs, Defendants, and their representatives in the wage claim formal hearings. DLSE Assistant Chief Nance Steffen understood this, which is why Gomez had a smaller office. As a professional and personal "fcuk you" to Nance Steffen, Gomez moved Jackson once Steffen was no longer part of Gomez's chain of command. As an office reference, Regional Manager Abigael Calva has the smallest office in Los Angeles, and she is Gomez's boss.

Gomez doesn't need an office that big because he doesn't have clusters of people congregating there all at once, but his ego does need an office that big. It's one of the ways a very small person feels bigger. Gomez doesn't give a crap about the public because the DLSE Santa Ana office is all about Gomez and his arrogance. He will tell the public, "my deputy will do this, my deputy will do that," etc. These are not his deputies; he doesn't pay our salaries. His job is to direct our work, and we are not his employees.

RM Calva lets him get away with this because Calva doesn't give a sh*t; she's just here to collect a check until she retires...it seems that every DLSE manager over 50 is here just to sit on their ass and to collect a free check, nothing gets dones around this shithole to really help people, and it starts with letting *ssholes like Gomez take the biggest office in Santa Ana just because his ego wants it.

Whore-hay Gomez keeps ramming the Santa Ana office into the taxpayer's backside

2008-07-02T05:00:00.000-07:00

Whore-hay Gomez does it again to the taxpayer! Instead of pulling the settlement deputy commissioner (with the highest caseload) out of rotation to fix his Mary Tokar caseload problems, he goes in the other direction. His Mary Tokar problem should have already been fixed because he pulled a hearing officer out of rotation (for months) to hold Tokar's conferences, but that wasn't enough to screw over the taxpayer" now another employee's gotta fix Whore-hay's problems.

Whore-hay Gomez massages the monthly "stats" and he jams another employee out of $7 in parking expenses; Whore-hay doesn't so much as lift a finger to fix the $7 employee expense problem, so the employee now wants the $400+ worked in overtime. This is the same crap we see from employers...What could have been a $7 taxpayer problem is now a $400+ taxpayer problem, all because of Whore-hay Gomez and his inability to generate independent thought (Whore-hay Gomez cannot take a dump without first calling his boss, Regional Manager Abigael Calva). Abby Calva must be proud of her non-DNA/wanna-be son; Whore-hay scrapes his knee and he cries to momma Calva.

Whore-hay Gomez is a joke, and Labor Standards still has no Labor Standards.

Jorge "Post-it Note" Gomez returns! Who said he wasn't potty-trained at gunpoint?

2008-06-25T05:00:00.000-07:00

This clown cannot get out of his own way. The minute he has just a little bit of breathing room, he resorts back to his old bad habits...habits that got him into hot water in the first place. "Anal retentive" is a fitting phrase for Mr. Gomez, as he cannot let anything go. To give you an example, Mr. Broadwater submitted a wage claim for a hearing and Jorge Gomez rejected it because the word "overtime" was hyphenated. Jorge had his little Post-it Note for Bruce on the claim, directing Bruce to correct it. So Bruce corrected it, and then the claim sat on Jorge's desk for almost two months. Funny, I couldn't find that policy (or the procedure) for Post-it Notes and delayed wage claims.

At the DLSE Santa Ana office, it goes something like this:

Gomez reviewing a wage claim...2 minutes

Gomez finding a comma out of place...1 minute

Gomez writing his discovered error on a Post-it Note...1 minute

Gomez returning the claim to the deputy...1 minute

Gomez's feeling of satisfaction by being "the boss".....PRICELESS...oh wait,

The claim being delayed because of an immaterial comma....TWO MONTHS

Jorge Gomez is at it again with the Post-it Notes. Yesterday, one employee got 5 claims returned and another employee got 2 claims returned. The employee who rec'd the 5 claims rejected is new, so I wonder why Gomez didn't provide the training that was needed to prevent a rejected claim? How come Gomez isn't so anal retentive with training new employees as he is with rejecting claims? Now, none of these Post-it Notes show any real problems (if they were, Gomez would have listed it in the 900 Notes), so we're talking about minutia...little issues that only ruffle Gomez's feathers, like commas out of place, hyphens, and colons.

In a normal world, Liquid Paper would fix the problem in 5 seconds. In Gomez's fiefdom, he needs to feel special, he needs to feel worthy and needed. In his little brain, he actually feels like he's doing the right thing. In reality, he's delaying wage claims and taking a big dump on the Corrales decision over minutia. He's clueless as to how to make things easier in the Santa Ana office.

DLSE supervisor Jorge Gomez cannot get anything right: counter duty assignments, wage claim commissions, transmittals, you name it

2008-06-24T05:00:00.000-07:00

I can't imagine anything sadder than Abby Calva helping Jorge Gomez with the 540 transmittals (the last form approved before a wage claim is scheduled for a hearing). That's like Vicki Tamoush helping Ivette Dominguez with the DLSE 530.

It does tell me one thing: they don't like this blog, and when the photo of Jorge Gomez's box of waiting transmittals was published, Abby came down to take care of business.

In another famous Jorge Gomez critical thinking endeavor, he's not changing the counter duty assignments until the safety barrier is complete. I'm not sure that one is linked to the other, but they are in Gomez's brain; he should probably wait until Tamoush comes back so he has 1 extra deputy for the rotation.

Jorge Gomez is also keping commission claims from certain staff, just his way of playing favorites. I'm sure he'll spin it with lies and half-truths because that's how he rolls: in secrets, never fully forthcoming. He'll play the idiot card before he plays the liar card.

The state doesn't do more with less; the state does less with less...just ask Jorge Gomez

2008-06-22T19:00:00.000-07:00

Jorge Gomez does less with less! When the bosses tell him to go after the blogger, then he has no time to process wage claims; it got so bad that Regional Manager Abigael Calva reviewed and approved thrity-two (32) wage claims for formal 98a hearings! Georgie Porgie, pudding & pie, blew off the transmittals and made the wage claimants cry! Will this lack of prioritization with Jorge Gomez reflect in his performance evaluation? He's an EXEMPT employee, so why isn't he staying late to finish the job? Why can't he effectively manage his time? Can't he find the time to secretly pursue the blogger AND process wage claims?

If I hadn't seen the 900 Notes themselves, then I would have never believed that Abigael Calva helped Jorge Gomez process transmittals for hearing! There are almost 33,000 records in the Santa Ana database...guess how many transmittals have been approved by Abby Calva? That's right! I'm sure it's just a coincidence, though!

Maybe she can start holding conferences and hearings...Santa Ana's getting backed up because Jorge is letting his favorite employees avoid the commission claims!

If Jorge Gomez does secret file reviews of the asian deputies, then does he protect himself by (then) doing case file reviews of the white deputies?

2008-06-22T05:00:00.000-07:00

DSLE management is all about "after the fact," meaning that once their brains are activated, they then decide to go into the wrong direction...it's the same with CMS, it's the same with their meal & rest period cluster bombs, and it's the same with anything of importance.

With the blogger, DLSE was very insistent upon payback for losing the lawsuit, so they began looking for anything in hopes of putting some stink on the blogger. In their infinite wisdom, they came up with case closings. They decided that despite no performance standards and no priorities, they evaluated the blogger as "needs improvement" with regards to case closings. In response, the blogger closed 140 cases in April and 103 cases in May.

This infuriated management, because this was not the desired response. How dare the blogger improve performance once management, bullshit or not, communicated it. Management was now desperate to find anything, so management conducted secret case file reviews of the blogger. This time, they were finally hoping to finally find something worthy enough to dispatch the blogger.

Unfortunately (again), there was nothing to be found. Of course the files weren't perfect, but when a state employee is assigned almost 2,000 cases in just over two years by managers with no standards, no policies, no procedures, no regulations, and no priorities, perfection is unattainable.

But now the cat's outta the bag, and the blogger wants to know why secret case file reviews were ordered, so Jorge Gomez responds by secretly reviewing case files of another deputy. According to that dumbshit Gomez, there is no harassment or discrimination because it was his plan (all along) to conduct secret case file reviews, and it's just a coincidence that in all of Gomez's years that he started this secret case file review in 2008, it's just a coincidence that Gomez started with the blogger, and it's just a coincidence that Gomez used the very same harassment technique to get rid of Mary Tokar in 2007 (but not secret--he put her on Counter Duty after he reviewed her files).

So let's re-cap: the blogger's survived all of their harassment, all of their discrimination, and all of their retaliation. That sonofabitch blogger is still breathing DLSE air, and they've played their last card. So unless that dumb blogger starts walking around the halls naked, they might want to use their time in drafting a policies & procedures manual (PPM), they might want to rank their list of priorities, and they might want to start looking at their own ineptitude before hunting down a deputy that's assigned almost 2,000 cases...and working them.

DLSE Santa Ana supervisor Jorge Gomez reportedly cannot keep his stories straight, just like his monthly stats reporting

2008-06-18T18:22:00.000-07:00

So Jorge Gomez doesn't have a clue as to what's going on at DLSE. Someone asks about a 4/10/40 work schedule, and he tells them that the Labor Commissioner is going to do away with all alternative work schedules--state wide.

Naturally, his credibility is in the toilet as nothing he says can be believed, so the employee says that they'll believe it when Angela Bradstreet issues the statewide memo via email and removes everyone from the 4/10/40 and 9/8/80 work schedules. I'm sure this attitude of Gomez's does wonders for morale and it's a direct contradiction to what Governor Schwarzenegger wants, but f*ck the Governator, right?

DLSE does things their way, and they don't need no stinking Governor telling DLSE how to run their ship, eh? DLSE is fighting the telework grievances like there's no tomorrow. That's the DLSE: fight & lose, convert millions of taxpayer dollars into CMS fertilizer and not one bureaucrat receives so much as a counseling memo. I want to pee on the d-l-s-e!

Santa Ana DLSE supervisor Jorge Gomez screws up the monthly statistics, doesn't know or doesn't care enough to fact-check

2008-06-18T05:00:00.000-07:00

With Santa Ana DLSE supervisor Jorge Gomez, you are guaranteed some sort of bullsh*t excuse as to why things are all screwed up. His arrogance will not allow him to say, "I screwed up, sorry, won't happen again."

This management jackass cannot submit the same performance statistics on two different forms. Take a real good look at the numbers; they are not the same.

Now this clown isn't an idiot; he's been doing the job for almost thrity (30) years. He's secretive and will use incompetence (I didn't know, I'm not sure, I don't remember) instead of intent (I screwed up-I apologize). Regional Manager Abigael Calva prefers this.

DLSE supervisor Jorge Gomez cancels staff meeting less than 24 hours before it starts: unable to fill hours with hearings & conferences

2008-06-16T19:00:00.000-07:00

In a typical move by DLSE supervisor Jorge Gomez, he cancels his staff meeting at the last minute, so those who want to hold conferences and hearings are unable to schedule & slot them into these vacant hours. File this under FRAUD, WASTE, and ABUSE.

Jorge Gomez isn't some brand-new noob with no experience, and this isn't the first time he's canceled a staff meeting at the last minute. He almost always cancels at the last minute, which shows how well he manages his time, his priorities, and his service to the public.

As long as Princess Gomez can cancel whenever he wants, he's happy. He thinks nothing of the public he serves, he thinks nothing of the staff that have reserved such time for him, and he thinks nothing of his operational efficiency to both public and staff. At other more professional state departments like Dept. of Justice and Dept. of Insurance, staff meetings are canceled because of operational needs, like serving a search warrant or something that takes precedent like an exigent circumstance.

At the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, supervisor Jorge Gomez cancels 'cause he feels like it! Labor Standards has no labor standards, and both the public and staff suffer for the inefficiency, unprofessional conduct & discourteous treatment of Mr. Gomez.

Vicki Bradshaw screws over the taxpayers with another Robert Jones appointment...if she moves dogsh*t enough times, it stinks less with each move?

2008-06-13T05:00:00.000-07:00

The FECES 10 have done it again. Robert Jones is feeding from the public trough. Can't this loser find a job as a greeter for Wal Mart?

Although it seems that they intentionally kept info out of the press release, like "...Robert Jones is a whore for Vicki Bradshaw, who's pimped by GAS in screwing over the working Californian with meal & rest periods. Robert Jones only works for employers and makes life miserable for those that work under his org. chart. Robert Jones is the quintessential douche who will stop it nothing to keep getting a free paycheck from the taxpayers. Vicki Bradshaw's dumb ass couldn't get him confirmed by the Senate, so now she's gotta stick him in a position where no one can remove him. No one holds Robert Jones accountable because no one holds Vicky Bradshaw accountable. By the way, we are a joke of an agency that consistently rapes the taxpayers with our legal precedents."

I'm not surprised. CMS f*cked taxpayers for $10,000,000+, so who (in authority in public service) really gives a rat's ass if this douchebag continues to collect his taxpayer-paid annual salary for $144,000+?

DLSE manager continues to harass blogger, continues to delay wage claims, and continues to thumb his nose at the Corrales decision...

2008-06-11T21:00:00.000-07:00

DLSE supervisor Jorge Gomez has nothing but time to harass the blogger, despite the fifty-eight (58) wage claims that need his signature for 98a wage claim hearings. This picture was taken on my own time, using my own equipment, and I physically counted each and every DLSE 540 (otherwise known as the transmittal), the last step before Jorge Gomez approves it for a 98a hearing. Here these wage claims collect dust while Jorge Gomez tries to rub some stink on the blogger.

Instead of processing the very claims that got DLSE into trouble with the Corrales decision, he secretly reviewed twenty (20) wage claim case files assigned to the blogger. You know what Gomez discovered during his secret review? That the blogger was doing the job. A huge waste of time on the part of Jorge Gomez, time he (supposedly) doesn't have. The blogger will continue to document how Jorge Gomez spends his day, and the blogger will continue to broadcast the harassment and the inefficient service to the taxpayer.

Jorge Gomez is a documented failure: he can't process wage claims in a timely manner, he couldn't bring Mary Tokar to an acceptable level of performance, he couldn't bring Vicki Tamoush to an acceptable level of performance, he cannot bring his office to an acceptable level of staffing to efficiently serve the public, and he lets his office favorites cherry-pick the easy wage claims. It seems that the only thing he knows how to do is to secretly review the case files of the only state employee who dared to question & broadcast their wrongdoing.

Denise Padres, Angela Bradstreet, John Duncan, Richard Munoz, Vanessa Holton, and Steve McSquinty: I took the photo, not on state time and not using state equipment. Don't waste my time & the taxpayers money by forcing me to attend another 9-minute internal affairs investigation in Los Angeles. You jackasses have this information, so stop wasting funds that are not yours to waste. Why don't you losers stop harassing me and take a decisive course of action, one way or the other? California Supreme Court Justice Kennard praised Angela Bradstreet for her ability to mediate & resolve disputes; so far, Kennard seems ignorant of this issue occurring on Bradstreet's watch.

What has Victoria Bradshaw done with Robert Jones? The way he dumped on DLSE lawyers, the way he whored himself for Vick Bradshaw, his insensitivity,

2008-06-10T04:00:00.000-07:00

Robert Jones' last day should have been June 6, 2008. Victoria Bradshaw's redundant idiot selection (after Jose Millan) failed his senate confirmation, producing another loss for her administration of morons, losers, and idiots (those defined as intentionally producing fraud, waste, and abuse for the California taxpayer).

Do you know what kind of a check the taxpayers will be writing to Miles Locker because of Robert Jones and Victoria Bradshaw? The two of them should be in jail for such an otherwise white-collar crime (unlawful use of taxpayer funds)...or they can pay Miles out of their own wallets and save the taxpayers from the pain both Bradshaw & Jones have caused.

Is Robert Jones still working? If so, then where did the Big Vick Hick put him? Is he really gone, or did the Big Vick Hick shuffle him to continue collecting his paycheck? I'd like to know, so I can start inundating Senator Perata's office with multiple complaints. Robert Jones should not be allowed to collect another taxpayer-paid paycheck. What this administration and what Robert Jones did to Miles Locker is incomprehensible. Unless Big Hick Vick hires Robert Jones to shine the boots of Miles Locker for a year, there's no real use for Robert Jones: he needs to go chase ambulances.

If you have any information on Robert Jones, then please post it.

DLSE Employee Retention Guru Jorge Gomez does it again, and again, and again, and again

2008-06-09T05:00:00.000-07:00

Currently, DLSE Santa Ana supervisor Jorge Gomez has failed to fill the vacancy created by Office Assistant Veronica Gutierrez's departure. Currently, DLSE Santa Ana supervisor Jorge Gomez has failed to fill the vacancy created by Hearing Officer Vicki Tamoush's departure.

The moron cloud hanging over him continues to darken. Recently, Office Assistant Maribel Zaragoza passed the Office Technician (OT) promotion (congrats). What Dumbo doesn't understand is that she's looking to get promoted: that's why she took the test, it's a combination of ambition and talent. She wants to stay here, so she asks him what he's done about turning her position into an Office Technician position (so she can remain). He tells her that he hasn't done anything, and she needs to do what she needs to do to take care of #1. She tells him that she's had offers, and he basically told her to go somewhere else because he hasn't done squat to keep her as an OT.

If she leaves, that means only 3 DLSE staff speaking Spanish at the counter: Jesus, Esperanza, and Jorge Gomez. Maybe it's his destiny: to drive people out of the office until he's the only Wage Claim Spanish-speaking employee. He has the chance to keep Maribel and he's taking a big, fat dump on retaining a good employee who speaks Spanish.

The one Commenter had it right; DLSE is nothing more than a management fertilizer factory. Dumbshit, after dumbshit, after dumbshit. Jorge Gomez won't be happy until both Spanish-speaking clerks are gone and there's still a vacancy for the 3rd Hearing Officer. Who cares, right? It's only the biggest wage claim office in the state, why bother staffing it? The reason why it's the busiest wage claim office is because the TAXPAYERS made it that way, you friggin' morons!

GOV Schwarzenegger's support of McCain is like having sex with Kobe Bryant: you can yell and scream all you want, but it's gonna happen...

2008-06-04T19:00:00.000-07:00

John McCain is the old, fuddy duddy, drumbeating 9/11 scare the public into giving up their rights, combined with the arrogance of telling women what to do with their bodies and telling gays who they cannot marry. Y A W N.

John McCain is as original as George Bush and as outdated as the Black & White television & 8-track tape. McCain will not win, and GAS will look like a horse's ass if he doesn't step up and support Obama.

McCain, much like Vicki Bradshaw, Jose Millan, John Rea, and Robert Jones represents what's wrong with public servants...they don't serve the public, only their self-serving special interests...just like those involved with that taxpayer-paid $10,000,000+ abortion called CMS...who did that serve except special interests and that lazy, fat ass Bradshaw endorsed such taxpayer waste. Where's the OD-Legal investigation into that fraud, waste, and abuse?

Out of the only 4 men in the DLSE Santa Ana Wage Claim office, 3 served their country in the US Armed Forces, and their public service continues....

2008-06-04T05:00:00.000-07:00

Bruce Broadwater served in the US Army.

Jim Jackson served in the US Navy.

Christopher Lotts served in the US Marine Corps.

Jorge Gomez moved his entire family to Stockton, CA to take a labor standards promotion.

Gomez knows next to nothing of Esprit de Corps, camaraderie, honor, integrity, and courage. Courage isn't bending over for your bosses in hopes of getting the next promotion. Maybe that's why Gomez only wants women in his office, maybe he has something against ex-military servicemen. He was certainly shaken when his daughter joined the US Air Force.

Positive and successful office relationships improve service to the public. During the failed Senate confirmation beat-down of Robert Jones, it was highlighted that Jones destroyed office morale. The Senate Rules Committee made note of it, so for Regional dipshit Abigael Calva to allow Jorge Gomez to act in a manner that does a disservice to the public being served in Santa Ana is contrary to what Senate Assembly Members desire from state employees.

Calva, for years, allowed and still allows Jorge Gomez to fcuk the Santa Ana office with Mary Tokar's and Vicki Tamoush's continued employment without proper supervision. Tokar retired and Tamoush transferred before Gomez took corrective action, so what does that say about Calva and Gomez?

Gomez is unfit to be a supervisor, as he doesn't supervise, he just bends over, and not for the taxpayer, just for his own self-serving preservation, career, and hopes of being promoted. He's not smart enough to figure out that he'll never get promoted, as they failed him on the DLC IV exam and passed & promoted that noob Eric Rood, whose about 10 years out of high school. Someone who's dumb enough not to read the writing that's on the wall is unfit to supervise the busiest wage claim office in California...give him something more his speed, like El Centro or Winterhaven.

Manager orders employee to remove management contact information from emails so public is forced to fend for themselves...

2008-06-03T05:00:00.000-07:00

(click pic to enlarge) - Jorge Gomez doesn't take a dump at DLSE without first asking Regional Manager Abby Calva how to proceed; the guy couldn't make independent decisions to save his life, but that's what they promote in the DLSE fertilizer factory: inept managers who are required to pass everything to their bosses for approval and a pat on the head.

Jorge cried to Lotts about DLSE case #68887 because Lotts couldn't remember an email (Lotts sent/rec'd 365+ emails for May, 2008) and Lotts was not required to forward 68887 information to Gomez. Lotts responds by reminding Gomez that it was Gomez that ordered Lotts to remove contact information about Gomez, Calva, and Padres in his email signature, so the atty. in 68887 could have had the information had Gomez not ordered Lotts to remove such info. Instead, Gomez gets the information via snail mail, days later.

It's like the DLSE managers think that email is for their private use and no member of the public should be able to contact them. These are public officers, who are available to the public from 8am to 5pm, whether it's in person, thru a fax, on the phone, or by email. Then people wonder why I label them as "FECES." It's because of crap like this email: DLSE management does not want the public having their contact information: that, will open the floodgates of timelines & memorialization, something very scary to inept managers.

Why doesn't the DLSE have the names, phones, faxes, & emails of specific office management, staff, and support on its website?

Jorge Gomez is the classic DLSE fall-guy, just like Lupe Almaraz, and quite possibly like Denise Padres. Abby Calva couldn't give a rat's ass, and Angela Bradstreet barely has a handle on what's going on in the offices. Once she starts making her managers accountable & available to the employees and employers of California, she'll see the results she wants for her career in public service.

The DLSE: sticking it up the taxpayers' butts, one email at a time...

DLSE milquetoast Jorge Gomez still tries to be a supervisor...

2008-06-02T05:00:00.000-07:00

This ass clown, while a group is eating in the lunch room, opens the door and tells Jane-who isn't supervised by him-he tells her to stop swearing. She used the word "ass." Jorge Gomez just called her out like that in front of all her peers, and he didn't bother to pull her aside and talk to her privately. Besides, she was on an unpaid meal period, so what was he doing talking to people on their lunch?

In another instance, he walks by Steve's office and tells Steve to stop swearing. Yeah, that lasted about a day before Jorge finally quit and gave up: he's been ordered to secretly go after the blogger, and like the little POS that he is, he just bends over and takes every one of their orders like a prison wife. He secretly removed about 75 case files without updating its DLSE 900 Notes. One would think he'd put the reason to yank and review the file, but Jorge Gomez hardly puts anything in writing anymore.

~~Prison Wife~~ Jorge Gomez had a chance to weigh in on the recent McCoy decision because Steve had an issue arise from a wage claim that needed a legal decision. Instead of Jorge Gomez updating the investigative 900 Notes, he told Steve just to give it to Santa Ana's legal counsel, Johanna Hsu...much like the way Tony Soprano would order a case file sent to legal. At the end of the day, the DLSE is too cheap to hire lawyers to interpret such laws, so they have DLCs conduct labor law conferences and hearings, all because the DLSE would rather spend $10,000,000+ on CMS and not hire the right people for the right job.

DLSE lost Murphy 0 to 7, now they lost Jones 0 to 5, and they will lose to Miles Locker...arrogant a-holes are on a losing streak!

2008-05-30T05:00:00.000-07:00

Wow, there is a God.

I was starting to lose faith that every DLSE/DIR/LWDA jerk appointed to public service will continue to butt-rape the California taxpayer. Deputy ~~butt-lick~~ Secretary Robert Jones is gone, click pics to enlarge and read. You know the DLSE management 'tards will click these pics, because that's what 'tards do, they read the news while true leaders make the news.

Perata made news today, and Miles Locker will make news soon enough. What realy sux is that the DLSE/DIR/LWDA management FECES will probably find a nice cushy job for Robert Jones-*sshole, only this time it might be a non-political appointment for $125,000+ per year. If they're dumb enough to hurt the taxpayer to do this (keep having him collect a state paycheck), then I will have no mercy on them and they will see a postcard & letter writing campaign that they have never seen.

Victoria Bradshaw is an evil idiot for rubbing stamping this moron for appointment, and Governor Schwarzenegger is a bigger idiot for listening to Vicky Bradshaw...isn't it time for her fat ass to go live in her Italian villa where she can try and squeeze her Size 12 boats into some Size 7 Gucci pumps? Victoria Bradshaw is a big, fat loser. John Rea is a big, fat loser. Robert Jones is a big, fat loser moron.

Robert Jones: don't go away mad, just go away...you have no choice, bye-bye, a-hole! Make sure you regale your grandkids with how proud you were to screw over the working Californian. Great life you've made for yourself, jerk.

LWDA Secretary Victoria Bradshaw's loser career highlights:

2008-05-30T04:00:00.000-07:00

1) Bradshaw's the same loser that lost the US Supreme Court case Livadas v. Bradshaw, right?

2) Bradshaw hired Jose Millan, the same guy that lost Cuadra v. Millan, right?

3) Bradshaw ended up making Millan leave his LWDA Deputy Secretary position because of his meal & rest period games, right?

4) Bradshaw then picked Robert Jones to replace that loser Jose Millan, right?

5) Robert Jones, after he thoroughly f*cks the DLSE, is selected by Bradshaw as Deputy Secretary to continue the work of Jose Millan, right?

6) Robert Jones fails to receive one pinche vote for his senate confirmation, right?

7) Bradshaw used her position & personnel to terminate Miles Locker, via Robert Jones, John Rea, and Anthony Mischel, right?

8) Victoria Bradshaw, appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is so stupid that she doesn't know what a meal and a rest period is; furthermore, the jackass morons she hires are also so stupid that they can't figure it out for her, right?

Vicky Bradshaw's whore-Robert Jones-to be bent over (again) on Wednesday, May 21st at 1:30pm

2008-05-20T04:00:00.000-07:00

After watching the Senate confirmation of Robert Jones on calchannel.com, I cannot wait for them to finish him off. This snake doesn't deserve to be anywhere near public service; in fact, he should be in jail for what he has done/tried to do to the workers of California as well as the workers of those that enforce our labor laws, the DLSE.

This is classic Robert Jones: he issued a no-speak gag order on his own DLSE attorneys, so a DLSE attorney goes to ACLU for help (she cannot go to Jones, obviously). She has a kid and there are health complications with the kid, so she requests unpaid leave, and he tells her no f*cking way. Retaliation for going to the ACLU? You bet. Who keeps Jones in check? That other jackass, Victoria Bradshaw, who was personally appointed by Girlie Man GAS to head the new agency & taxpayer black hole, the LWDA. Robert Jones eventually makes nice with the ACLU, and 4 days after making nice with the ACLU, he terminates Miles Locker for the same reasons (supposedly) reconciled with the ACLU. So not only is Robert Jones a stinking pile of feces, but he's a lying, stinking pile of feces. In 02/07, he told me to either settle with him or I'll be fired; needless to say, I'll be here and he'll be going. Miles Locker will be coming back!

It turns out that Jones sharpened his horns on Miles Locker after only 1 month of being hired, so who was really behind the assassination of Miles Locker's career? Victoria Bradshaw, John Rea, and Anthony Mischel. These three douchebags were Robert Jones' pimps, and Robert Jones whored himself for personal gain. Vicky Bradshaw & John Rea didn't have the balls to do it themselves, so they outsourced it to Robert Jones and Tony Mischel. Tony Mischel is one of the biggest pieces of feces collecting a paycheck from the taxpayers, but in the end, Victoria Bradshaw and John Rea should be held responsible for the actions of Robert Jones and Anthony Mischel. Vicky Bradshaw's so stupid, it's a wonder why she hasn't figured out why Tony Mischel is a 3rd-rate lawyer in a 3rd-rate state agency. She and John Rea gave him the job of getting rid of Miles, and she's about as successful at that as making meal & rest periods a penalty...LOSER!

GAS brought Vicky Bradshaw back into public service-who's a Pete Wilson flunkie, and 3 days after her hiring, she dragged Miles Locker into her office and demanded to know who decided meal & rest periods were wages and not penalties. Make no mistake, this meal & rest period thing is HUGE in California, it's in the hundred of millions of dollars, and shitty employers need Vicky Bradshaw to get rid of Miles Locker so illegitimate employers can abuse labor laws/workers. Legitimate employers don't care because they follow the law; it's the illegitimate employers whose special interest are served by GAS, Victoria Bradshaw, John Rea, Anthony Mischel, and Robert Jones.

Oh Happy Days when Bradshaw, Rea, Mischel, and Jones no longer collect a paycheck from the taxpayers of California. The taxpayers deserve better than these fecal piles.

Why is Susan Nakagama not holding 98a hearings? Only 1 debarrment in Public Works last year? What were her & Lauro Cons doing to collect their check?

2008-05-18T06:00:00.000-07:00

So after Susan Nakagama and Lauro Cons tried to retaliate against a DLC that filed a workers comp. complaint, they put the two of those jackasses into a corner to limit the amount of destruction Nakagama and her lackey could do to the public.

They figured Public Works, right? Republican Administration, very few violations to be found, yadda yadda, yadda. In 365 days, there was only 1 debarrment? You gotta be kidding me! Lauro Cons, Julie Tarazon, Gretchen Torregano, and Susan Nakagama should be holding 98a hearings to bring the Corrales decision under control. Make these civil servants either earn their paycheck or leave...either way, the DLSE and Californians win!

What the Labor Commissioner should do is nail down the dates of when they held that cattle call and ascertain which managers called in sick for those 3 days!

Watch Bradstreet's and Robert Jones' confirmation hearing...Roger Miller was there (did Nakagama fly up to give him his special "hello?")

2008-05-17T06:00:00.000-07:00

1) Go to http://www.calchannel.com/

2) Pull down WEBCAST menu or click here

3) Click "Search archive" or click here

4) Type "051508" (no quotes), click submit and wait for it to load

5) Go to: SENATE COMMITTEE RULES and click watch

6) Load it up and watch!

Bradstreet's gonna get confirmed, but Robert Jones won't sit down for a month! Ouch! They ruined him! I don't think that butthole will get confirmed, so that LWDA dumbass Victoria Bradshaw (or that other idiot Gov. Schwarzenegger) will need to give that butthole another state paycheck that doesn't require confirmation.

What sux is that the butthole Robert Jones collected a state paycheck for almost 3 years (2 years as Acting Labor Commissioner, and 1 year as Deputy Secretary) and almost single handedly ruined labor relations, both internally and externally...all on the taxpayers back. He grossed almost $400,000 in 3 years and systematically screwing over the working Californian while simultaneously bending over for employer special interests.

Label this one as "Don't let the doorknob hit you in the ass (no offense, Dean Fryer).

DLSE mgr. Jorge Gomez takes another crap on another employee...this time, Vicky Tamoush is leaving the DLSE. Mr. Gomez should leave, as he has failed.

2008-05-16T17:00:00.000-07:00

Santa Ana office supervisor Jorge Gomez lost another substandard public servant, but the worst substandard public servant in Santa Ana still collects a paycheck. Who? Jorge Gomez. Vicky Tamoush would still be here if Jorge had properly supervised her. When she screwed up, and it was often, all he had to do was to crack the whip and warn her not to do it again. Instead, he shirked his supervisory duties and chose cowardice over supervision. Jorge Gomez is a supervisor, and he failed to supervise. His working title wasn't "coward," though one would think he is paid to avoid issues and concerns.

At the end of the day, his job was to increase Vicky's level of performance to the public. Jorge Gomez failed as a supervisor because her performance became so substandard that she left the DLSE. Without detracting from Vicky's faults, there are no bad employees, only bad supervisors. His job was to monitor and evaluate performance. His job was to communicate deficiencies. His job was to take corrective action, if needed. Jorge Gomez stacked the deck against Vicky Tamoush and probably told her to leave (or else). Vicky Tamoush didn't turn into shit overnight, and that's why Jorge Gomez is to blame. In this respect, Jorge Gomez has failed miserably, and this wasn't his first substandard employee.

Based upon my investigation, Jorge Gomez has known about Vicky Tamoush's departure for at least two weeks. They have failed to schedule her hearings, knowing that she'll be leaving. She had her custom desk removed from the state building, and Jorge Gomez kept this a secret. Jorge Gomez is good at keeping secrets, but as with any secret, it eventually leaks. My secret is that I know how Jorge leaked it.

A similar situation happened to Mary Tokar, who retired before Jorge Gomez could correct her identified deficiencies. Jorge Gomez had 15 years to bring Mary up to par, and he failed there, too. 15 years and he couldn't get it right. By my math, DLC Mary Tokar retired and DLC Vicky Tamoush transferred out of the DLSE within the last five months of each other. It seems that Jorge Gomez does not know how to manage, but it seems that he does know how to be a coward and he does know how to create the worst office morale in any state agency. Oh yeah, today is his wedding anniversary; at least he's kept that together.

Is Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet blind? Why does she let her managers throw darts on the wall while Corrales kicks her in the ass???

2008-05-16T05:00:00.000-07:00

Does Angela Bradstreet have the slightest clue how to fix Corrales? Every manager throwing darts at the wall, i.e., DOING NOTHING, can start holding hearings and conferences to reduce the backlog highlighted in the Corrales decision that blamed Bradstreet.

If nothing else, it will get the slow and the stupid managers to retire early. The last time they did a cattle call, where all managers & lawyers were tasked with holding hearings, Regional Manager Susan Nakagama called in sick for ALL THREE DAYS! As an example, that dumb moron (Nakagama) is extremely afraid of holding hearings and of speaking/deciding on the record. If you want her to retire, you have her hold hearings until she either retires or Corrales is fixed. Same thing with Greg Rupp, Abigael Calva, Lauro Cons, and Eric Rood.

None of these managers do anything with their workday, but you can't fire them because of civil service rules, so instead, you just make them earn their paycheck. The managers still get paid/collect benefits, the kick-in-the-nuts Corrales decision gets fixed, and those that don't want to hold hearings will go away...I don't see a downside to this solution. All the deadwood floats away, the public gets served in a timely manner, and you have state workers earning their wage: 8 hours work for 8 hours pay.

If Labor Commissioner Bradstreet cannot bring conferences & hearings under control using this solution, then she is a co-conspirator in defrauding the public from its general funds by allowing state management to do nothing yet collect very high wages.

DLSE Management Feces deny telework to career, 30-yr. Hearing Officer. Management Feces also reverting back to vinyl records to record hearings

2008-05-15T05:00:00.000-07:00

I don't think that DLSE Regional Manager Abigael Calva could stink up this place anymore than she already has.

Not only would it be very interesting to depose her about her relationship with former Labor Commissioner Lloyd Aubrey, but it seems to escape her IQ that poking a sleeping bear only produces one reaction.

Supervisor Jorge Gomez has emphatically stated to his staff that he cannot wipe his nose without first seeking the approval of his boss, Regional Manager Abigael Calva.

DLSE Hearing Officer Jim Jackson has been faithfully serving the public for three decades, and this is how they treat him? Well, if Jorge Gomez isn't full of it, then Abbby Calva is....micromanagers, desperately & pathetically trying to maintain their power and control.

The real problem here is that neither Abby Calva nor Jorge Gomez know how to manage/lead; they only know how to please their masters by barking out the same orders of their handlers. That's not managing; that's parroting, just like the bird. Unfortunately, Jorge Gomez doesn't have the sack to publicly point the finger to Abby, so officially, it is Gomez who rejected Jackson's request.

Do you know how they reward Jorge Gomez's loyalty for keeping his mouth shut? They flunk him on the DLC IV exam! So not only does he behave like a professional prison wife, but he's too dumb to know that he's a prison wife! There's no way that I would do the bidding of these idiots after they flunked me on an exam that outsider/noob Eric Rood passed and received the promotion! Gomez doesn't get it because he's a moron; that's who DLSE promotes to serve the public.

LWDA, DIRt, and DLSE deny their employees the right to telework, even though this right is written into the collective bargaining agreement

2008-05-14T05:00:00.000-07:00

It's written into our very own employment contract: TELEWORK SHALL NOT BE UNREASONABLY DENIED. The management feces will suggest that we use the grievance procedure with the union, and the only thing that does is delay it for a year and longer as it moves along the grievance process, because the management feces needs four levels of denial before they can start laughing at their employees for having stuck the telework denial in their eye.

DIR/DLSE management does everything they can to stick it up the asses of their Deputy Labor Commissioners (DLC)s. Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet gets a beat-down with Corrales, and it's the DLCs who suffer. LWDA Deputy Secretary Robert Jones greases the palms for CMS, and it's the DLCs who suffer (not to mention the taxpayers). LWDA Secretary Victoria Bradshaw gets a beat-down with Livadas, and it's the DLCs who suffer. DLSE's very best Jackass, Greg Rupp, becomes Acting Labor Commissioner for a day, giving him time to push through meal & rest period laws that are eventually overturned because of their illegality, and it is the DLCs who suffer (not to mention the victims/wage claimants).

This is just another day where LWDA, DIRt, and DLSE give their employees the knife in the back. Governator wants less traffic congestion, happy (e.g., productive) state employees, higher morale, so this "telework" language is built into our contract. And even though telework is also a recruiting tool for state employees, you have management feces like supervisor Jorge Gomez, Regional Manager Abigael Calva, and Deputy Chief Denise Padres doing everything they can to deny telework to their workers.

This is what's so funny about insecure, incompetent, control freak managers: they cannot manage, so they think someone siting at their desk must be working. Citizens and members of the public, both employees and employers, deserve better than the feces serving them. Management feces is old and stinky and should retire to go & rot elsewhere. For the record, my morale and productivity is directly related to management feces' denial of telework, so I could be more productive working away from my desk, but the management feces wants me roting at my desk, too.

We should continue working with their management tools like carbon paper and typewriters...old and outdated should be DLSE's motto.

The Feces 10, Pastor John Hagee, Pat Tillman's mom, The Keating Five

2008-05-10T05:00:00.000-07:00

It's so fitting that John McCain is officially connected to anti-gay pastor John Hagee, who is quoted as saying that Hurricane Katrina was God's wrath upon the homosexuals (click here for Google links). Generally, Republicans are not affiliated with homosexuals, but what do you call homosexuals who call themselves Democrats but are really Republicans? Is there anyone out there that thinks Hagee is normal? Is there anyone out there who really thinks that God made Hurricane Katrina because of the gay parade that they were having at the same time? By the way, Hagee is also anti-Catholic, so someone like Hagee who's (allegedly) filled with God's love has a lot of hate in their heart. This lunatic is connected the the very best republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has yet to throw Hagee under the bus like Obama did with Wright. I find it laughable that anyone would take Hagee's comment's seriously, but I find it really scary that any political candidate would want this kind of connection to lunacy, but then again, this is America and the taxpayers have the chance to vote this clown (McCain) into office in November. For me, I'm for Obama, as Hillary and McCain are nothing more than symbols of the status quo political system.

Once again, the Bush Administration is still covering up the death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman. Mary Tillman, Pat's mother, is still trying to find the truth into her son's death, where the Bush Administration still spins his death into a recruiting tool (click here for Google links). Seven investigations and two congessional hearings still can't convey the truth, and leaders wonder why people like me are f*cking fed up with those in command having no place to be in command. The government first lied and said Tillman died in combat, and then when it was leaked that they lied about it, they then said Tillman died of friendly fire. Mary Tillman said the lie started with Donald Rumsfeld, but don't look for any punishments soon. Just like CMS and the Feces 10, this Bush Administration has disrespected the honor of those soldiers who have died in this war by lying to those families who have suffered such loss of life.

Does anyone remember The Keating Five (click here for Google links)? It was the Savings & Loan scandal of the 80's & 90s involving 5 US Senators who were connected to Charles Keating, one of them being presidential candidate John McCain. This is the best republican presidential candidate America puts forth? This is the guy that wants us in Iraq for 100 years and wants to wage war in Iran.

People like Bush, like McCain, and like Schwarzenegger do not live in the same reality as the majority of the taxpayers. California's almost $20,000,000,000.00 budget problem cannot be bailed out via more bonds (again). People complain about Democrats being 'tax & spend," but Schwarzenegger's been nothing but "bond & spend." We cannot get business cards at the Santa Ana office, but the Feces 10 who gave DLSE the $6,000,000.00+ taxpayer-paid CMS abortion have yet to be charged criminally or administratively disciplined. Not one of the Feces 10 has attempted to fix this for the taxpayer; $6,000,000.00+ is a lot of taxpayer waste...Dean Fryer, Rick Rice, Angela Bradstreet keep their pieholes shut about CMS' aftermath, but they certainly take time out of their day to cry about critics & to defend the Governator. Isn't this the same Governator that denied gay marriage? Back in the day, women could not vote, blacks could not vote, and gays were in the closet. We still have a long way to go; gays will marry in California before the Feces 10 are held accountable for their destruction of DLSE and CMS.

If LWDA jackass Robert Jones is to be confirmed by the Senate on May 14, then contact the Senate NOW!

2008-05-08T04:00:00.000-07:00

Please contact every member of the Senate Rules Committee and find out who's in charge of reviewing, approving, and confirming this clown for his political appointment. Here's what the Senate members need to ask at the confirmation hearing:

1) Why did you issue a "No-speak" memo to DLSE attorneys, only to cowardly yank it after they filed a PERB complaint?

2) Why did you terminate Miles Locker in exchange for being Acting Labor Commissioner and Acting Chief Counsel? How long have you lived your life as Acting Jackass?

3) Why were you involved in the Blogger's Free Speech litigation, and why do you hate free speech, as evidenced by your 'No Speak' memo and anti-blogger involvement?

4) How long have you been a whore for the Meal & Rest Period reform attempted by the various lobbyists and political contributors?

5) Will you continue to whore yourself for either monetary gain or political power? What is your starting price, and can an individual taxpayer afford it, other than the Governor that appointed you?

6) How much did you personally profit, either politically or financially, from the (at least) $6,000,000.00 taxpayer-paid abortion called "CMS?"

7) How were you able to deceive the taxpayers of their political due process by collecting a paycheck as Acting Labor Commissioner for almost two years? Is it because they could not appoint you as Labor Commissioner because you would never be confirmed? You received two years of experience, being a loyal a dedicated whore for your masters, so that it would be an easier sell to this political appointment?

8) Why were you down in San Diego, actively involved with the "Brinker" decision? Was this another example of you on your knees, trying to please your masters? Did the taxpayers pay for your flight from Nor Cal to San Diego? What was the excuse/justification for the taxpayers to take in the shorts for your jaunt?

9) What was that stunt you tried to pull with Wal Mart? Didn't you want to save them $60,000,000.00+ by knee-capping the lawsuit against them concerning the statute of limitations regarding meal & rest periods? Is Wal Mart also one of your masters, or do you drop to your knees for any big corporation?

10) Other than living on your knees to please your masters, explain in detail how your public service benefits Californians overall, or do you just take up space to please elite millionaires and employers?

This clown has been a disaster for public service since DAY 1. If he is confirmed by the senate, then it will be a dark day for all Californians earning less than $125,000.00 per year.

Screwing over the taxpayer, in classic Santa Ana hearing officer Vicki Tamoush fashion

2008-05-07T05:00:00.000-07:00

When Vicki Tamoush isn't invoking her own strange justice in wage claims, she has the chance to play games with BOFE citations. LT wrote this one citation to a car wash, and the car wash owner appealed the citation. Vicki Tamoush attempts to flim-flam the owner by tricking him into signing a time statute appeal waiver, so this way she can continue the hearing and nail the owner to the tune of $10,000. The owner asks her to explain what he's about to sign, she mumbles something he doesn't understand (apparently hearing officer Tamoush cannot properly explain a citation waiver), so he refuses to sign what he doesn't understand.

Tamoush has no choice but to dismiss the citation because DLSE took too long in scheduling it. Tamoush knows that she cannot hold the hearing unless the owner signs the time waiver, but instead of dismissing it as required, she sadly attempts to circumvent justice by tricking him into signing it. This is another flagrant example of a classic DLSE/DIRt/LWDA butt-lick: someone who knows the law and knows better but deliberately acts contrary to the law or ethical codes of professional public service. Tamoush also waited until the day of the citation hearing to attempt this hoodwink. This garbage goes on all day because Jorge Gomez and Abigael Calva allow, permit, and condone Tamoush's boorish behavior against the taxpayer.

Santa Ana Deputy Labor Commissioner refused business cards; so far, no one charged, arrested, or disciplined for taxpayer-paid CMS millions-$ thievery

2008-05-05T05:00:00.000-07:00

These are the official fecal matters of DIR, DLSE, and LWDA: Richard Munoz, Anthony Mischel, Vanessa Holton, Steve McGinty, Angela Bradstreet, John Rea, John Duncan, Robert Roginson, Robert Jones, Victoria Bradshaw: otherwise known as the Feces 10. Most are lackey lawyers or political appointees, thus adding to their stink.

They do nothing to the guilty parties of CMS, the taxpayer-paid, multi-million dollar abortion that's officially listed as junk. Not one *sshole has been charged/disciplined with that fiasco, but some DLC cannot order business cards because there's no money to pay for them. No oversight, no accountability, and certainly no responsibility taken for CMS. Not one of Feces 10 will provide any real numbers as to the true cost of CMS to the taxpayer. The Feces 10 will continue to do what they do best, collect their paychecks, stink up the joint, and provide a disservice to the taxpayers of California

All these fecal matters do is wait for the Golden Bear to crap into their direct deposit accounts once a month; that pretty much sums up their usefulness to the taxpayers of California.

DLSE Supervisor Jorge Gomez has trouble managing a pimple

2008-04-25T05:00:00.000-07:00

1) So Vicky Tamoush, being the passive aggressive type that she is, decides to organize a luncheon for the clerks in Santa Ana, being Administrative Professionals Day. Blessed by Jorge Gomez, she accidentally/on purpose includes everyone except Bruce Broadwater and Chris Lotts. Bruce gets wind of it, and asks Jorge why is he letting Tamoush act in this exclusionary behavior. Jorge is an embarrasment to the department, once again, proving that he is worthy of never passing the DLC IV exam. All he had to do was to tell her to make sure everyone's invited, but that takes brains.

2) Chris Lotts decides to wear shorts on his "paper" day, where there is no contact with the public. California state employment has no dress code; it's whatever is "appropriate." Jorge Gomez, being the "I'm da Boss" guy that he is, asks Lotts why he's in shorts, so Lotts tells him that it's a paper day & there's no public contact with the taxpayers. So Gomez asks what will happen if someone appears at the public counter and demands to see him, so Lotts responds by pointing to his Khaki, cuffed long trousers & tells the moron that he can change into those pants if necessary, but it's more important to process DLSE paperwork.

So the moron crawls back to his office, calls Regional Manager Abigael Calva (because moron cannot pick his nose without guidance from the Regional Moron), and Gomez returns to Lotts' office and orders him into pants. Now this idiot couldn't figure out that it might have either been better to ask him to shut his door & work or ask him to simply change, but instead, moron & his people/leadership skills cries to Abby Calva. Gomez the Manager must show Lotts who's boss, and it's Gomez. Never mind the fact that Tess Morales wore shorts, but Gomez plays the gender card to suit his purpose, and his purpose is to harass Lotts.

3) DLSE is up Gomez's butt about that picture showing all of those unprocessed wage claims, so now he's got all three clerks working around the clock to diminish this black eye. Three weeks ago, Gomez couldn't care less, but now that his office is publicized for all to see, now he decides to care and to pretend to give a sh*t about the taxpayer. Is it Gomez's fault or is it Headquarter's fault? There are no priorities, except the ones that change daily. The one good thing about that photo is that it's just another flagrant example that there are No Labor Standards at labor standards.

Much like the restaurant worker taking a picture of cockroaches for the health department, the taxpayer benefits from the photo posted on this blog because it caused Jorge Gomez to get off his dead, lazy ass and start doing something for the public we serve. I'm sure they'll find a way to punish, retaliate, and harass the blogger for having the audacity to post such a photo for all to view...transparent accountability to the public.

Gomez has no labor standards; heck, his office can't even organize a luncheon without upsetting the apple cart, but this is what happens when a talking monkey is in charge of the busiest office in California...runs just great, just look at the photo of claims in the basket.

Undocketed Santa Ana wage claims gather dust while little league dads get their work permits for kids to be movie stars: CALVA is anti-CORRALES

2008-04-24T05:00:00.000-07:00

This is exactly what's wrong with DLSE, and it's being done right under Bradstreet's nose.

Wage claims are not processed in a timely manner because of entertainment work permits and unreasonable work permit delays due to DLSE's computer software nightmare, CMS.

The $6+ million-dollar, taxpayer-paid abortion just collects work permit data, and it takes ten times as long to issue a permit. Ten times as long: think about how much time that is.

DLSE can now brag about how many permits it issues, which is good because now you can calculate about 10 minutes for each permit, and that's how much time is being wasted on not fixing Corrales. All that time could be used to repair Corrales, but nope, we gotta issue entertainment work permits before we process wage claims, just like Abigael Calva squawked in her email.

Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet can thank Regional Manager Abigael Calva for this photo, as it is a true reflection of proper and efficient service to the taxpayers.

with Jorge Gomez, the conference deputies always get screwed over by him, and when staff suffers, the public inevitably suffers because of Jorge Gomez

2008-04-23T05:00:00.000-07:00

When Jorge Gomez lost the following clerks: Daniel Jimenez, Ivette Dominguez, and Veronica Gutierrez (what a coincidence that all of their surnames in "Z"), it was the settlement conference staff that suffered.

When Jorge Gomez lost the following settlement conference personnel: Linda Fox, Nita Chopra, and Mary Tokar, it was the settlement conference staff that suffered.

The settlement conference staff must share printers while the hearing officers and the clerks have their own. Jorge Gomez pawns everything off on the settlement conference staff. Whenever Jorge Gomez needs to make an excuse, the duties fall upon the settlement conference staff.

Whenever Jorge Gomez decides to play musical chairs with the duties of the clerical staff, the settlement conference staff must try to figure out which person does what.

This affects our service to the public because we have a failure in charge of the busiest office in California and he has no idea what's going on. His primary job is to suck up to the bosses, and they reward him with failing him on the DLC IV exam. This failure's been on the job forever and he cannot pass the DLC IV exam, but he's more than happy to continue to sucking up to the bosses that rejected him. If he has all these years of experience, then why doesn't he have the skillset to (at least) make the DLC IV list?

He doesn't know how to take care of the office because he's so busy with trying to take care of Abigael Calva, and that's why the public suffers. When the public experiences the dysfunction of the Santa Ana office, it's because Jorge Gomez lacks the leadership, lacks the skillsets, and lacks the teamwork to get the job done in a competent and efficient manner.

forever first level supervisor Jorge Gomez: Level 2?

2008-04-22T05:00:00.000-07:00

1. Gomez rats out JJ to Bob Brock/Personnel when VT says that he's taking grafts from translators. Status: unsubstantiated & meritless.

2. Gomez rats out CL to Greg Rupp when a crazy lady signed a settlement agreement then tried to screw the defendant again. Status: unsubstantiated & meritless.

3. Gomez rats out JJ to the Holly Hayashida/Civil Rights Office when VT hears that JJ might have asked about the kind of car she drives. Status: unsubstantiated & meritless.

4. Gomez rats out CL to Richard Munoz/OD Legal when a Claimant lies about his claim, Cl dismisses the claim & informs GOMEZ THE LIAR, who approves of the dismissal. Then Gomez says he has CRS disease (Can't Remember Shit) to Bob Brock. Status: unsubstantiated & meritless.

5. GOMEZ THE LIAR protects & will protect Vicki Tamoush to his last lying breath. Every lawyer that has complained about Tamoush has been givin the brush off by GOMEZ THE LIAR.

6. Tamoush's performance evaluation will mention NOTHING about the legal complaints made against her, against the dozens of Spanish claims she delayed when she used her friend Mindy to translate, and it will mention NOTHING about how she calls off sick on days she holds hearings, thus screwing over the DLSE again and burdening the taxpayers with more waste, fraud, and abuse.

GOMEZ THE LIAR does whatever he wants because that's the DLSE standard: do whatever you want to whomever you want!

permanent 1st-level supervisor Jorge Gomez destroys morale with his annual performance evaluations: way to go, moron!

2008-04-21T05:00:00.000-07:00

This guy cannot give pay raises and cannot give promotions, so the least thing he could do is to give credit for a job well done. Instead, he wants to be an ass and show everyone how NOT to keep office flow positive. This jackass will, given enough time, tell his staff how he appreciates everyone's hard work we do for the public. This fake appreciation will never reflect in the formal evaluation, but that isn't the real kick in the grapes.

The DLSE has no standards, so this idiot Jorge Gomez is using his own set of standards, much like the way Victor Jurado tried to invoke his own play book with Armida Corral in Long Beach. At that DPA hearing, Regional Manger Abigael Calva was made aware of this; it's not the supervisor's office, it's the state's office, so a supervisor cannot make their own regulations.

Abigael Calva does whatever she wants, Jorge Gomez does whatever he wants, so it seems perfectly natural for the next cascade of the rank & file to do whatever they want. After all, there are no standards, no policies, no procedures. If anyone has a problem with the way that things are getting done in Santa Ana, then tell them we are imitating our "do whatever we want" bosses.

Taxpayers pay supervisor Jorge Gomez $80,000.00/year and all he's capable of doing is calling Abigael Calva; it's like she's his mom!

2008-04-18T05:00:00.001-07:00

It seems that Jorge Gomez cannot wipe his behind, wipe his nose, or make a DLSE Santa Ana wage claim decision without calling his DLSE momma, Regional Manager Abigael Calva. I'm not sure when this euphemistic breast-feeding will stop, but I think 15 years is enough, don'tcha think?

How about this: we save the taxpayers $80,000+ in salary and benefits by getting rid of Jorge Gomez and just calling Abigael Calva ourselves?

Earlier today, Jorge Gomez spent almost the entire day on the phone with his DLSE mommie. DLC Lotts caused Jorge Gomez to be ineffectual & indecisive, and then DLC Jackson caused Jorge Gomez to be ineffectual & indecisive.

After all, this is the DLSE standard of what an $80,000/year bureaucrat does for the taxpayer: constipate the decision making process. He boasts of being the boss, like his life goal was to be some 3rd-rate low level manager, but when it really comes down to it, he can't pick his nose without picking up the phone to call Abigael Calva.

Everything, I mean everything, bottlenecks when you bring anything to that clown for a decision. That's why staff don't go to him unless it's absolutely necessary.

seems that DLSE supervisor Jorge Gomez cannot burp without asking his boss Abigael Calva, but what do you expect after almost 30 years on the job...

2008-04-17T05:00:00.000-07:00

DLSE Santa Ana supervisor Jorge Gomez has almost 30 years on the job, and he's still as useless as a Day One newbie, but let me explain. Santa Ana is suffering a staff shortage, so he takes a vacation for a week. During that time, he puts a Deputy Labor Commissioner II in charge, who makes the command call to hold all entertainment work permits so that the 1 clerk (Santa Ana has) can work on wage claims. The smart plan is to ship them off to Van Nuys, because that's where the new work permit bureau will be.

Jorge comes back, and instead of shipping them to Van Nuys, he instead calls Abigael Calva and asks for permission to mail them to Van Nuys. You know what she tells him, right? Can anyone guess?

I can hire someone to teach a monkey sign language, and then I can train that monkey to ask about mailing a package. Jorge Gomez makes $80,000.00 a year, and all this monkey can do is pick up the phone and ask another monkey what to do.
The one good thing about Jorge Gomez is that he doesn't fling poo like a monkey, so the Santa Ana office has that going for it. Other than that, the Santa Ana office is trapped in layers of incompetence, inefficiency, and supervised by someone that can only pass the DLC III exam...of which he's been (weakly) doing the job for decades.