DLSE personnel changes, some good, some bad

When Lauro Cons retired, it was a great day for the California public. His public service career consisted of sucking up to Susan Nakagama and Greg Rupp. When Greg Rupp retired, he knew that he was so hated by DLSE staff that he went out with a whimpering cry & demanded that there be no retirement dinner for him. With these retirements, gaps were created. Victor Jurado became a DLC IV for BOFE: who would have thunk it? Nance Steffen tried to break it off in his ass when she banished him to NorCal for several years, even though she knew that Victor had to care for his mother down in So Cal.

Once Victor begged for mercy was he allowed to return to So Cal, and now that Nance Steffen was pushed out of the way (sent to Public Works after her cheerleading for that CMS abortion), Victor actually got promoted! Rumor has it that when he was in Long Beach, the first hour of Victor's working day was spent with the Los Angeles Times in the men's bathroom stall. It's not that he wasn't there, you just had to know where to find him, but I digress.

So DLSE pushed Nance Steffen into Public Works, and they pushed Susan Nakagama into Public Works after she retaliated against an employee who filed a workers comp. claim, but you'll see no real evidence of that because DLSE doesn't believe in transparency, just innuendo and "no correlation." With Lauro Cons retiring, some other idiot had to replace him, and who was the perfect idiot bureaucrat? Diana Chen! While she was a supervisor at BOFE, she had a record number of subordinates requesting transfers, so things weren't working out at BOFE.

Henry Huerta was producing the stats needed for his group and Tongkun Kim was producing the stats for his group: why break what isn't broken? Diana Chen had to go, because Susan knows nothing about field audits, field enforcement, and she is deathly afraid of public speaking, so someone gotta dig the ditch, and it's Diana Chen. The bonus is that in a republican-controlled administration, there are about ZERO public debarrments, so it's not like these 3 stooges are doing anything except collecting a paycheck. A great start to the new year with Diana Chen & Susan Nakagama paired up as the moron twins. Thanks for making California a better place by staying out of the way!

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.

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.

A huge step in DLSE/DIRt intimidation is to violate their target's right to privacy: thanks to Greg Rupp, Lupe Almaraz, and Richard Munoz

Back when DIRt attorney Richard Munoz was in the Los Angeles DLSE office intimidating witnesses, they made no bones about who the blogger was. The DLSE issued memos that identified who the blogger was, and that the blogger was involved in litigation with the DLSE.

What they forgot to include in their memo was that the DLSE violated the United States Constitution, and the blogger only had the court to tell the the DLSE to "stop." Honestly, what court is going to say that the DLSE can command an employee to submit private diaries and confidential sources? If anyone looked seriously at the legal issues, it's not really about the blog; it's what they tried to demand. Why did they demand the diaries and confidential sources? Because DIRt wants to harass, intimidate, and retaliate against those who dared to speak freely.

Can you imagine if Regional Manager Susan Nakagama filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Art Lujan, or Assistant Chief Greg Rupp filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Dean Fryer, and then the DLSE commenced to issuing memos, informing & educating state employees of such litigation? Because it was the blogger, someone seemed to think that violating the blogger's privacy was/is perfectly acceptable. Yes, litigation is a matter of public record, and yes, the DLSE, as a state agency, had a duty to protect the state employee's privacy. Litigation does not absolve them from their duty to keep personnel matters confidential; furthermore, their actions forced me to litigate their violations.

This is the California agency charged with protecting employees from employer abuses, so if this is how they treat their own, then how much do you think they care about protecting outsiders?

Rumor has DLSE Asst. Chief Greg Rupp shredding documents like there's no tomorrow! What does this mean? Is he retiring or about to be sued?

Chances are that Rupp the Clown is about to come under scrutiny, so his response is (obviously) not to come clean and take responsibility, but to shred as much paper as he can and as fast as he can! Here's the thing: he sits at a computer and sleeps, so WTF is he shredding?

He has no life, so it's not like he's cleaning up his office because he's about to vacate it. Maybe this shredding is part of a new diet and exercise plan where he shreds documents instead of tacos. Whatever he's shredding, it's not like he'll be ble to recollect any of his memory, as his "I don't know" mantra has become a part of his professional testimonial.

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.

Most recent photo of DLSE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp*, the whore for Jose Millan (who was Vicki Bradshaw's whore) in the "Corrales" case

Greg Rupp , a California peace officer, subjected so many hundreds-if not thousands-of claimants to violations of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, that the judge in Corrales called him out by NAME!

I would be horrified if a judge said I did those things that Rupp did, but it seems that dumb, fat, lazy bureaucrats like Jose Millan and Greg Rupp continue to feed from the public trough without any sense of shame or remorse. In clinical terms, people like that are called sociopaths, and the last time I checked, sociopaths tend not to be good state employees.

Just like Hitler rewarding loyal nazis, this division rewards Rupp for such loyalty. To this day, he continues to collect his paycheck without so much as a wristslap for his actions described in Corrales. He's nothing more than an old, fat lapdog whose time has come. He serves absolutely no legitimate purpose at DLSE, as sleeping in front of a computer monitor is not found in any state civil service duty statement.

*-not really Rupp, just the most current likeness: balding, gun to compensate for lack of a real package, balding, manly moustache, wrinkled & huge forehead, balding, pink shirt, squinting type twitch, balding, round face.

WCA Regional Manager Abby Calva and BOFE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp in Santa Ana today

Abby Calva came by and went right to Jorge Gomez's office; historically, she doesn't like coming to the Santa Ana office & typically only comes to Santa Ana because of a problem. Nobody really wants her down there anyway, because she doesn't fix anything, she doesn't streamline anything, and she's one of the idiots that told Bradstreet that making phone calls to settle cases is a great idea. I'd like to see how successful she is with settling wage claims. She's a real mastermind, that Abby Calva.

Greg Rupp looks like a beaten down, too-dumb-to-retire curmudgeon. As the BOFE puppet head, he only comes down to Santa Ana to harass & retaliate against a wage claim deputy's complaint (Rosheen Shinske), retaliate against a Philipina clerk who filed a worker's comp. claim (Rowene), or make general bureaucratic indecisions. Genetically, big dumb gorillas don't have the analytical skills to make big-brain decisions. This could be one reason why it's rumored that Angela Bradstreet doesn't think too highly of Greg Rupp's mental abilities. I've also been told that LWDA clerk secretary Vick Bradshaw said that Greg Rupp is good for only opening a barn door. I don't think that's true; he might succeed at cleaning porta potties.

Greg Rupp is done. He thought that he still had the grapes to take charge and go after someone he targeted, heck, it worked for him with Miguel Algarin, Jose Hernandez, and Rowene Diaz (well, not really for Rowene). Even after Rupp dispatched Lotts from BOFE to WCA, Rupp thought he could continue to harass, discriuminate, and retaliate. Now, everyone laughs at him behind his back. If he came to Santa Ana and had some face time with Lotts, I'm pretty sure that Lotts would laugh at him. Not because Rupp's a management idiot, not because Rupp's too stupid to retire, but because Rupp cannot do what he loves to do: target, discipline, brag.

Everyone in Los Angeles knows that Rupp was too much of a coward to fix his problem with Lotts, so Rupp sends Lotts to Santa Ana. What kind of a tough guy is that? This is why people laugh at him; Rupp couldn't fix his own mess. Like the prison wife he should be, he merely took the girlie option. At the end of the day, Rupp's just a bully who failed at being a bully. A big, useless, gorilla. If Angela Bradstreet really wanted Rupp to retire, then she should (politely) ask Lotts to come back to BOFE and have Lotts work under Rupp. Lotts will give Rupp exactly what he deserves.

Current DLSE whispers....

I heard that Lupe retired because he hated working for Angela, and Angela thinks that Greg Rupp is dumb & worthless..she hates Greg Rupp. I also heard that John Rea was the #1 butthole that supervised Denise Padres' Hartwig decision. John Rea had to make sure that Hartwig was perfect before it was published. I've also been told that Angela Bradstreet's senate confirmation will be sometime in Spring, 2008. Make no mistake in my presence, whether in spirit or in person!

This was the decision that the Schwarzenegger administration wanted to screw over the California worker-Denise Padres went from a DLC II to DLC VI

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Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet is full of sh*t; anything that comes out of her mouth is pure bullsh*t, as that's the job of shills working on behalf of bigger handlers, like GAS. Bradstreet doesn't want Corrales fixed; she wants to give lip service to it. She promotes the very same imbecile that started Corrales!

Denise Padres was too dumb to figure out that meal & rest periods were wages (she called them 'penalties'); meanwhile, Miles Locker, a real attorney and the only guy to get it right, still sits on the beach.

Why does Angela Bradstreet promote a documented incompetent? Because her pimp, GAS, wants it that way. Loyal morons go a long way in this agency...just ask Greg Rupp, he's an Assistant Chief and can barely tie his shoes.

There aren't any bad DLSE offices, there are only bad DLSE managers

These managers have systematically f*cked the California working taxpayer. What they couldn't push through the back door (with the Jose Millan - Greg Rupp chickenhawks), they couldn't get through the front door (with the judge's ruling on the Corrales decision). It seems that ever since Schwarzenegger took office (and filled his post with Pete Wilson rejects), our policies have been a direct butt-raping of the California worker. Look at what DLSE has done with Wal Mart, Kenneth Cole, bullsh*t emergency regulation implementation attempts, and most importantly...our DLSE promotions!

Denise Padres goes from a DLC II to a DLC IV, and then to a DLC VI! She's the one that started the whole butt-rape of the taxpayer with her bullsh*t hearing officer decision/interpretation of, 'meal and rest periods are a penalty' crapola. Meanwhile, the very attorney who has called it correct from the very beginning, is still waiting for the State Personnel Board to decide whether or not the DLSE butt-raped his career. Denise Padres is either too stoopid to correctly interpret the Industrial Welfare Commission orders, or she is neck-deep in the conspiracy to screw the California worker to the direct benefit of The Corporation.

In any event, she will be our new Idiot Deputy Chief. Being an ass-kissing moron goes a long way in the DLSE....but like I said, there are no bad DLSE offices, only bad DLSE managers. You know who promoted this moron? That's right, Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet, the one named as the idiot-in-charge in the Corrales decision. The same person that started this avalanche has now been promoted! There are no accidents, no coincidences. Come up with a bullshit precedent decision that GAS wants, run with it as long as the courts allow, and then get promoted once the courts slap your wrist.

Padres was promoted because she towed the GAS political line, and the beauty of all this was that Greg Rupp got screwed in the process! That's twice he's been passed over for Deputy Chief, and he tried (so hard) to bend himself over for GAS when he attempted to get that "emergency regulation" passed, but was defeated with "lawsuits." Greg Rupp's a loser, and Denise Padres is an idiot, possibly a co-conspirator. The California Taxpayer got shafted, and our state was made just a little bit weaker with these corporate whores at the helm of DLSE.

Thanks, Angela Bradstreet, you're a real credit to the oldest profession in the world.

All of the men failed the the DLC III exam in Santa Ana! Denise Padres promoted by Angela Bradstreet, commissioner to vow more workplace inequality?

What a shock that the men (in the Santa Ana office) failed the recent DLC III exam, and what a shock that Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet promoted a non-man to Deputy Chief; boy, I didn't see that one coming!

You see, I expected Bradstreet's flunkies to do Bradstreet's bidding; that's what flunkies do (they cannot act on their own accord). And in this agency, flunkies are rewarded. Commissioner Bradstreet had a choice for Deputy Chief: promote an asshole (Greg Rupp) or milquetoast (Denise Padres), and at the end of the day, milquetoast won.

This place is soooooo f*cked up: according to these agency assholes, people who should have passed the DLC IV exam have flunked it, and people who should have passed the DLC III exam have flunked it. This means they've selected who they want to promote and are clearing the way for the next generation of assholes...someone's gotta replace Abigael Calva, Greg Rupp, and Susan Nakagama. Not even those losers can work forever (although none of them have any lives outside the job, so they're not looking to retire).

Blogger's dragged back into court on November 21st

So this is how it played out; the judge issued a proposed decision. The money-wasting, court-clogging turds at OD-Legal decided to cry & whine about it like the babies that they are. They could have let the decision stand and later appeal it, but that would take legal smarts. These retards cannot (even) figure out how to count for a summary judgement deadline, so I shouldn't be surprised that these ass-clowns cried about an uninvolved 3rd party not seeing it their way.

In a way, I hope these morons give me the opportunity to be heard at the appeals court; it only gives me another chance to fight & win...you'd think these morons would stop sticking their hand in the fire, but dumbasses never learn. That's why they are dumbasses.

Though word's been sent to Dudley-Do-Right, if they want to stop losing, here's the offer (in order of preference):

1. Pay legal fees and leave me alone to serve the public

2. Pay legal fees and place me on 18-month paid admin leave (this is nothing compared to the waste of the multi-million dollar abortion called CMS)

3. Continue to violate my rights and continue to lose

Youth, drive, and assets go a long way. If they really wanted to show good faith, they could terminate DLSE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp and DLSE Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz for their consitutional retardation and divert the money saved in their salaries to those that have suffered from their lawlessness.

They've had every opportunity to get rid of this; all they had to do was pay the legal fees and to leave me alone. It is they who continue this battle, and it is they who choose to waste the court's time.

Lupe Almaraz retires, DLC III exam in LA, Supervisor's retreat meeting in Nor Cal, info request on Culbeaux & Baker

DLSE Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz sent Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet his resignation letter; he's set to go away on 12/31/2007. At the end of the day, he did nothing for this department except spike his retirement paycheck...once again, screwing over the taxpayers! After Lupe's gone, ain't nobody named to be in charge of Wage Claims. It would be nice to see Nance Steffen come back as the Wage Claim Assistant Chief, but she's only going to get the blessing of staff by removing Regional Manager Abigael Calva's taxpayer-paid commute vehicle from Calva's possession.

The taxpayers don't need to pay for Calva's commute. CASE IN POINT: her lazy ass, having a state vehicle assigned to her, made Deputy Labor Commissioner Bruce Broadwater drive from Santa Ana to Los Angeles to discuss an item of importance. He had to use his car & his mileage even though the state gives her a vehicle of her own. Normally, if state auditors would ask WTF(?) she does with her car, she'd tell them that as Regional Manager, she's responsible for all these offices in So Cal...total bullsh*t. Her lazy ass goes nowhere and makes her staff come to her. Typical, lazy, bureaucratic, cow.

The recent Deputy Labor Commissioner III (DLC 3) exam came down to So Cal. Here's my prediction: they will pass & pick whoever they want to pass & pick because these assholes do not know how to keep themselves in check. Ferchrist, the State Personnel Board provides no oversight, and even when the California Supreme Court provides their oversight in their Corrales decision, Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet does nothing to Greg Rupp-the whore (at the time) for Jose Millan who screwed over all those wage claimants & violated their due process. These douchebags cannot self-regulate, and we're supposed to think that they'll righteously promote someone from a merit-based exam? They can't (even) follow laws, much less policies.

Last but not least, the desk donkies wasting money from the taxpayer's bank accounts opened the spigot for the supervisor's meeting in Nor Cal (11/04-06/2007). Now, these money wasters justified expeditures like video conferencing in offices so that they can hold meetings via video conferences. Why must they waste more money on airline tickets, lodging, meals, and time? We need computer software like Adobe Acrobat and scanners, but these money wasters sit around for three days, butt-kiss, and bray like an old goat about how to make the system worse. Bend over taxpayer, and try to exhale gently.

I have a contact who's looking into CMS, and I need the names of people who have details about Culbeaux, Baker, et al. Specifically, I need names and phone numbers because that's what the reporter needs. Mail it to: T. Zatori, PO Box 26212, Austin, TX 78755. Copies of anything can be sent here, and I will scan them and post them for all to see (like the examination fraud investigation). It will be forwarded to me. I don't want the names posted here, as they will be targeted for retaliation. If you want the truth to come out about CMS, computer contracting, Culbeaux, and Baker, then this is your opportunity to point truth-seekers in the right direction.

Heard of the $6 Million Dollar Man? Here's the $2 Trillion Dollar idiot; reminds me of CMS & our a-holes that refuse to prevent this taxpayer waste

This is the jackass who won't spend anything on children's healthcare (or anything else domestically), but wants $2,000,000,000,000 for his war in Iraq. Is there anyone (still) willing to die for companies like Blackwater, Halliburton, Bechtel, and the like? Are the children of Bush & Cheney fighting this war, or is dying in Iraq reserved only for the poor?

Wasteful & corrupt public officials have no place in this democracy and should be removed from public office, on their own accord or in handcuffs should they be dumb enough not to resign. Anyone connected to the CMS contracts & the taxpayer funding of this abortion should resign immediately; that includes DLSE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp for his violating of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution of those hundreds, if not thousands, of the Corrales wage claimants who got screwed over by him and Jose Millan, then- Deputy Secretary to LWDA Secretary Victoria Bradshaw, the top idiot, moron, and imbecile of this agency.

DLSE following China, or vice-versa?

Jerry Yang, Yahoo's a-hole top banana, willingly gave the Chinese government internet info and an email address of a Chinese citizen who received a 10-year prison sentence. His crime? Trying to report the news.

Over here at LWDA, DIR, DLSE, whatever the hell you want to call these jerkoff managers (past & present idiots Jose Millan, Donna Dell, Greg Rupp, Abigael Calva, Susan Nakagama, Lupe Almaraz, Robert Jones, John Rea, Angela Bradstreet, Steve McGinty, Anthony Mischel, Vanessa Holton, Richard Munoz, and last [but not least] Vicki Bradshaw) only try to outspend a blogger by clogging the court and using taxpayer funds to screw the civil justice system. How much money will be spent by the DIR to continue their losing battle, using taxpayer funds?

Instead of trying to unfcuk that massive multi-million dollar, taxpayer-paid CMS computer abortion, they're pouring more money into it & outsourcing it to EDD (we're too stoopid at DLSE to fix our own disasters).

Instead of halting their practice of biased, unfair, and unethical promotional selection system, they continue to pass & pick whoever they want to promote.

Instead of giving the Santa Ana office employees a safety barrier, they continue their practice of making excuses and pointing the finger at everyone else who's to blame...that's what 5-year olds do, not executive public officers.

Instead investigating & disciplining Assistant Chief Greg Rupp and Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz for their courtroom-documented violations of the United States Constitution, LWDA/DIR executives pat themselves on the back for a job well done by those two ass-clowns.

These people are absolute disasters in public service, and let me repeat their names in case you missed it: Jose Millan, Donna Dell, Greg Rupp, Abigael Calva, Susan Nakagama, Lupe Almaraz, Robert Jones, John Rea, Vicky Bradshaw, Angela Bradstreet, Steve McGinty, Anthony Mischel, Vanessa Holton, Richard Munoz.

"America's Sheriff" has a lot of parallels with this agency Greg Rupp...not in a good way

Being a cop takes a lot of responsibility and one must hold themselves to a high degree of accountability. DLSE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp is a sworn peace officer in California, but you'd never know it by his actions. He bends over for his (former) boss Jose Millan and then proceeds to screw every California wage claimant during the time described in the Corrales decision.

But just as in the red flags seen before Mike Carona's downfall, there were red flags in Greg Rupp's history with the DLSE. This peace officer, sworn to uphold the law, went after this clerk named Rowene Diaz. He went after her with such malice that the DLSE decided to settle her lawsuit secretly. After that, the DLSE promoted him.

It seems that the DLSE rewards assholes managers like Greg Rupp because of the frequency that he bends over for them. Loyalty goes a long way in this agency; not only must you leave your fingerprints at the scene, but you must also erase your boss's fingerprints. In any event, the division keeps people like Greg Rupp on the payroll, because it seems that after all, they serve a purpose.

In the end, it is the taxpayers who suffer because it's the taxpayers who got shafted in the monetary lawsuit settlement with Rowene, and it is the taxpayers who got shafted with Corrales.

DLSE supervisor exam to be held in Los Angeles, mid-November: the bat guano referred as DLSE execs. begin their biased, unfair, & traditional testing!

Well, it's time for the good ol' girls club at DLSE (Greg Rupp and Lupe Almaraz included) to start their biased, unfair, predetermined supervisor's exam. At the last supervisor's exam (DLC IV), how did some friggin' noob like Eric Rood (dink bureaucrat hailing from EDD) manage to pass the exam & promote to Regional Manager while seasoned supervisors failed the same exam? Yeah, tell me that the DLC IV exam was fair & unbiased.

Here's the real kick in the grapes: the DLSE doesn't (even) attempt to appear fair, which is the very purpose of the merit-based, civil service exam. The civil service exams & promotional qualifications appraisals' purpose are supposed to eliminate this kind of crap, yet all it does is shield the guilty from the microscope.

Why is California's State Personnel Board not up DIR's butt as to why such exams are continuing? These DIR retards have proven, to themselves and others, that they will not self-correct. It is the managers that need constant supervision, and it is the managers who need to be investigated. Why are Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz and Assistant Chief Greg Rupp still collecting paychecks, after placing California taxpayers in harm's way? Why have they not been disciplined and investigated for their actions against the citizens of California? Does Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet need more communications from Assembly Members to get off her lazy ass and take action? What's her major malfunction?

Come mid-November, the Kabuki Theater called the DLSE supervisor exam will go thru the motions, and then pass & pick whoever they want to pass and pick. If the State Personnel Board fails to supervise the DLSE, then are they just as liable?

Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet's burn-taxpayer-funds & do-nothing approach to this job

CMS is the biggest boondoggle this division has seen since entering the 21st century; our latest Labor Commissioner has seen fit to continue this multi-million dollar, taxpayer-paid fiasco instead of halting this fiscal hemorrhage.

Our latest Labor Commissioner seems to only be in the news when generating citation news releases as to how she's cracking the whip with those darn sweatshops or when reporters highlight how her appointment may be less-than political and more of another type of appointment.

Our Labor Commissioner has a ruling issued by the California Supreme Court discussing how DLSE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp violating the 14th Amendment of the United State Constitution, and what does she do? She doesn't do anything, she just sits on her ass and does nothing.

Our Labor Commissioner has a ruling issued by a California Superior Court discussing how DLSE Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz violated the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution, and what does she do? She doesn't do anything, she just sits on her ass and does nothing.

The taxpayers are paying her over $120,000 per year to authorize more taxpayer waste into CMS, to do nothing with Greg Rupp, and to do nothing to Lupe Almaraz. Who holds her actions accountable to the People of California?

Report Card for Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet

Halting further taxpayer-paid fraud, waste, and abuse regarding the multi-million dollar CMS computer software contract: F-

Initiate policies & procedures for Settlement Conferences: F-

Initiate guideline policy for dismissing wage claims: F-

Bringing DLSE into compliance after Corrales supreme court decision: F-

Disciplining DLSE Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz for violating the constitutional rights of a DLSE employee: F-

Disciplining DLSE Assistant Chief Greg Rupp for violating the constitutional rights of those victimized by him as described in the Corrales supreme court decision: F-

Initiate policy & procedures for issuing & rejecting child entertainment work permits: F-

Making the safety of DLSE/Santa Ana employees her #1 concern by installing safety glass (just like her office): F-

In summation, Angela Bradstreet is a perfect manager for this division. She doesn't do shit, she hasn't done shit, and she's made no material progress on the issues that plague DLSE.

Bradstreet's lame (and few) press releases about issuing citations to non-donators/non-lobbyists are boring: any monkey can write a citation (versus the 'hard' statistics on citations paid, citations to collections, citation appeal hearings won/lost, etc.). This division is a failure because the people at the top are a failure; they are failing the taxpayers of this state, and no one (at the top) gives a rat's ass.