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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Deputy Labor Commissioner Mary Tokar retires, Santa Ana DLSE Office has 3.5 wage claim staff (normally 7) to handle Corrales conferences

It seems that Labor Commissioner Bradstreet seems to be driving people away; I wonder what numbers she can produce on employment levels, comparing what they were to what they are. In any event, I'm sure she'll have a good excuse as to why she's failing & not getting the job done...she seems to be an excellent excuse-maker.

With DLC Mary Tokar retiring, the Santa Ana office continues to operate at an unsatisfactory and a substandard level, not that the DLSE has any standards!

The public continues to receive a disservice because the management jackasses (Angela Bradstreet, Abigael Calva, Lupe Almaraz) continuously fail to anticipate what's around the corner. Having settlement conference deputies at 50% capacity (3.5 versus 7) means that the public gets f*cked: the public unnecessarily wait longer, justice delayed is justice denied. It's as if Angela Bradstreet thinks of the Corrales decision as something to wipe her ass with, because she's not helping the taxpayer with her lame-ass band-aid memos. She gives the Santa Ana office 7 permanent, wage claim officers (instead of the 3.5), and that will go a long way toward getting rid of her Corrales headache.

I know that law school doesn't have a class in Common Sense; it's something one picks up in the streets and in dealing with regular people. I know it must be hard for Angela Bradstreet to make decisions for the common people while sitting atop her ivory tower in Saulsalito. She should go hang in the Tenderloin, Mission District, or Hunter's Point sometime...but she might be too afraid to leave her limo.

DLSE employee asks manager for help: told no (click pic to enlarge). How does this better serve the public?

In the real world, the strong are advanced and promoted while the weak are eliminated. In reinforcing the stereotype of your typical state worker at DLSE, the weak are advanced (given less responsibility while making the same money) and the strong and competent are eliminated (given more work). The only thing Mr. Broadwater failed to mention that this started as a way for DLSE to improve their Corrales statistics. The document speaks for its itself as to its competency and efficiency to public service. They take a big dump on the deputies that do the work and another deputy skates...that's the DLSE"s "shove the problem into the corner" solution, although with Santa Ana being so ass-backwards, they shoved the problem right into the public's face, probably in hopes of increasing citizen complaints.