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.

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.

DLSE Van Nuys office: please pass out these strips to those parents who are demanding their kids' entertainment work permits, you have 60+day delay?

With this image: right click to download (save as...) and print, or left-click to enlarge and print. Just as easy as 1-2-3! Print, cut, and pass out! These informational strips are only needed if CMS causes an unnecessary delay in servicing the public. If you sense that the customer (our public) is upset or unsatisfied with the time it takes to process the issues under the Labor Commissioner's jurisdiction, then think about telling them the REAL reason why they are experiencing their delay.

If they appear upset, then you can ask them if they feel if they've been delayed...then you can ask them if they'd like more information about the cause of their delay. This way, the customer asked for it, and it specifically relates to CMS. All you are doing is providing information to the customer;

the public has a right to know why they are being subjected to such a disservice.

Remember, use this method only if CMS causes an unreasonable delay. Acting Labor Commissioner LWDA Deputy Secretary Robert Jones isn't working on it; he's working on his next promotion!

It seems that the only time that the public isn't getting screwed by DLSE is during weekends/holidays, when the state's desk donkies aren't working

Why would Angela Bradstreet go from big-shot lawyer working at big-shot law firm to mid-level political appointee, and probably making half of what she was making at big-shot law firm? I don't want to hear any of that crap about public service, either. Wasn't she (in effect) already serving her public at the law firm, representing corporate management? If her current stint is being used as some bullsh*t resume builder, well she had better start building her resume and start doing the job in front of her.

DLSE staff rec'd some lame Public Records Act (PRA) info/memo where Angela Bradstreet writes that the PRA database will be a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. What kind of horsesh*t is that? It seems that Angela Bradstreet has absolutely ZERO confidence in our multi-million dollar, taxpayer-paid, yet-to-function CMS: the mother fcuker of information collection.

Well, I want to put child work permits on an excel spreadsheet. Can I start issuing DLSE work permits with my excel database? It won't cost a gazillion dollars and work permits will go back to taking 90 seconds to issue instead of ten minutes. Every day that Angela Bradstreet collects her DLSE paycheck is another day where the DLSE gets worse. When she starts doing good for the people of California, you'll start reading about it.

If Commissioner Bradstreet wants to improve the Corrales beat-down, then why are child entertainment work permits still the #1 DLSE priority?

In almost every DLSE office, there are DLC 1s and DLC 2s that cannot do their job becuase they must halt their DLSE mission and issue child entertainment work permits. Her Number Two (know what I mean...number #2?) Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz is totally happy with the status quo, because that means he continues to have the golden bear crap into his bank account every month; after all, what does he care if we're issuing work permits on that jack-ass CMS system instead of complying with Corrales?

Why don't they have some real DLC 1s and DLC 2s (who actually do the work) speak with senators and assembly members in explaining how dysfunctional our division continues to be, even though the DLSE has a new puppet head Labor Commissioner. Those at the top are clueless as to what's going on in the trenches, and they can't solve something they can't comprehend.