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..

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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!

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....

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...

(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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

DLSE Supervisor Jorge Gomez has trouble managing a pimple

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

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

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.

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

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!

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...

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.

Regional Manager Abigael Calva gives the big middle finger to Commissioner Bradstreet's desire to fix wage claims; Calva's useless to the taxpayers

On April 10th, some little league dad enters the Santa Ana office in hopes of getting an Entertainment Work Permit (EWP) for his kid that wants to work in some (probably) dog food commercial. He doesn't want to wait, so he wants to cut in line and obtain his work permit before all of those who have been (effectively) standing in line in front of him. DLC Jorge Martinez, of the Los Angeles office, tells him to just go down to Santa Ana and he can get the work permit for his kid. When it's explainted to the parent that Jorge Martinez cannot and does not speak on behalf of Santa Ana, the parent becomes upset. When it's further explained to the parent that EWPs are not at the top of the Labor Commissioner's priority/mission, he becomes more upset. Wage Claims are the priority for DLSE, but daddy-O doesn't care; he wants his EWP right now. Santa Ana tells him that he can leave his EWP application but will not guarantee that it will be completed to his deadline.

Very upset, he calls and cries to Abigael Calva, who then sends an email & demands that Santa Ana must issue the EWP to the little league dad ASAP. Those who are involved with processing wage claims (scheduling, docketing, etc.) must now stop what they are doing so that the EWP can be issued.

HOW CALVA'S ACTION SCREWED UP THE DLSE MISSION:
1) Abigael Calva failed to support her office by over-ruling the decision Santa Ana made, and hereby undermined Santa Ana office operations, in determining when this guy got his permit for his kid.
2) The Van Nuys DLSE section to process work permits exclusively should have been already established to handle nothing but Entertainment Work Permits, but that operational failure is still not functional; what a surprise.
3) Santa Ana's clerk, Veronica Gutierrez, quit. That leaves only one person in Santa Ana to handle wage claim processing & functions AND issuing entertainment work permits. The one clerk left at Santa Ana, MZ, is so backlogged in docketing that Abigael Calva thinks nothing of halting & impeding Corrales so that this guy can cut in line and get his permit because baby daddy needed it now.
4) DLSE has known about Veronica's resignation for months, but do you think Calva's done anything to assist in the wage claim backlog? That's Abigael Calva's responsibility, and she's done NOTHING to help Bradstreet alleviate the ills associated with Corrales. Calva is an obstruction to success; she's the reason why everything is wrong with this division. All these years of working as Regional Manager and it's more dysfunctional than ever.
5) Regional Manager Abigael Calva has failed to initiate a priority system within DLSE, yet the DLSE states that wage claims are the highest priority. Calva also failed in establishing a Policy & Procedures regarding the issuance of Entertainment Work Permits, even after communicating such policy & procedural malfeasance to her and her bosses.

Calva's a joke of a manager whose time has come. She should retire at the same time Rupp retires. She should give up her taxpayer-paid gas/car and stop using it as a commute vehicle from South Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles. She should initiate a priority system that we can photocopy to the taxpayers and communicate to them what we process and in what order. She should allow us to fix Corrales and she should not stand in the way of efficient service to the taxpayers. Santa Ana office operations should not be interrupted because one individual wants a work permit for his kid, just because he couldn't apply for the permit in a timely manner and mail it like everyone else.

Wage Claim screw-ups, Part 612

Recently, a taxpayer wanted a copy of the audio of a hearing. Turns out, we lost it. So some news agency contacts DLSE supervisor Jorge Gomez, who tells them that he cannot discuss the lost CD-rom and directs them to contact HQ. So they call HQ, and now sh*t rolls downhill back to Jorge! I guess Jorge can't get out of his own way, because I'm sure Regional Manager Abigael Calva was thrilled to hear about another Santa Ana screw-up.

DLSE managers are nothing but morons, idiots, and jackasses. Do you know how easy it is to back up a CD-rom? Takes about 5 minutes. You burn the CD-rom to the hard drive, and then you can make tons of copies from the hard drive, but not one idiot manager figured this out during any one of their idiot manager meetings. There should be no excuse for this kind of malfeasance, and heads should roll. Instead, the taxpayer will get screwed, the news agency will get the brush off, and the managers will protect themselves.

DLSE serving the taxpayer, ONE ENEMA AT A TIME!

Vicki Tamoush complaint, DLSE cover-up, part 1 of 3 (click pic to enlarge & print)

Thank goodness that someone from DLSE-HQ mailed this to T. Zatori in Austin, TX. It took long enough for it to finally reach its destination. There's a spy in San Francisco, and more documents to certain to arrive at the PO Box in Austin, Texas.

Regional Moron Manager Abigael Calva came to Santa Ana on Firday, 01/18/08, to chew the fat with the ladies working at the Santa Ana office. This also includes supervisor Jorge Gomez, not really a woman. She's very busy bending over for Angela Bradstreet, as it was Angela that told Abigael Calva to re-schedule this hearing.

Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet has been sitting on her lazy ass doing nothing about this complaint made against Vicki Tamoush. Read all 6 pages. They itemize, with specificity, the unprofessionalism and discourteous treatment that has plagued virtually everyone that has entered Vicki Tamoush's door. Vicki Tamoush is a fat, fat, cancer who has tarnished DLSE's professionalism and has turned Jorge Gomez into a workplace eunuch. All of this is happening under Regional Manager Abigael Calva, who will work very hard to bury it, sweep it under the rug, and pretend that nobody complained. The trouble is, the State Personnel Board terminated Robert Watson
http://www.spb.ca.gov/documents/preced/watson.pdf
for the same issues (click the link to read the .pdf file). It's time to Abigael Calva to retire, and it's time to bring Vicki Tamoush to justice. Anything less than that warrants the immediate removal of Abigael Calva and Angela Bradstreet.

Attention Angela Bradstreet: your complaint investigations are unfit & gender-biased (protect the asses of women, but send complaints about males to the DIR's Office of the Director-Legal Unit), your managers are unfit, and you need to return to private practice as you are unfit to serve the public.

Classic DLSE taxpayer waste in times of Schwarzenegger's alleged budget crisis

So some ass-donkey decides to authorize this training to Hearing Officers regarding the proper naming of joint employer entities. A supervisor who attended the training laughed at idiot management because the real workers who need it are the Wage Claim Deputies who actually draft the formal complaint (DLSE Form 530), where the correct and legal name must be identified. Not only that, but they had some idiot PowerPoint presentation that no one used on the video conferencing system, so having all these employees commute to the DLSE hub was completely useless...all that gas, all that parking, and all that time getting there...for a forty (40) minute class that no one will really use! Way to go, DLSE! Keep wasting those taxpayer funds, since it's not your money! Fiduciary trust and responsibility-what's that?

The problem is, by the time it gets to the hearing officer, it's such a cluster fcuk that everything's gotta be re-scheduled. Stoopid Regional Manager Abigael Clava was there to take roll call, like some babosa (look up the definition on Google), as that's about the extent of her professional ability in Wage Claim. A confidential source says that Abigael Calva's completely protected by BoFE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp, meaning that Abby gets whatever Abby wants, and that explains that shiny new car that the taxpayers pay for her commute. Anyways, Babosa Calva will be coming to Santa Ana today...not to assist staff, but to sit in some meeting about the safety barrier that still doesn't exist. Why can't we just rent a monkey from a zoo, put the monkey in the chair, and say that the monkey had a meeting about the Santa Ana safety barrier (that's 10 years 5 months overdue)? Really, what's the difference betwen Calva and a monkey? For starters, we could pay the monkey in bananas & obtain similar productivity results.