http://www.firstcoastnews.com/topstories/article/244045/483/COJ-Worker-Investigated-for-Second-Job (http://www.firstcoastnews.com/topstories/article/244045/483/COJ-Worker-Investigated-for-Second-Job)
Quote"If I use city equipment to do another job, I get in trouble for it. In fact, if I do anything with city equipment, and I don't report it to secondary employment, I can be terminated or suspended," said a JSO officer who would only speak on condition of anonymity.
Does Mayor Alvin know what is going on in his own administration? Are his staff really the best he could find, or just the best he could afford and we are all on a path to pay for it? There are other issues in Procurement with departments unable to purchase items or having to wait because the staff does not know how to process the work.
Maybe life would have been the same with someone else as mayor, but I don't see a Mayor with his finger on the pulse and with a clue of what is going on behind the scenes, and this leads to issues like the ones we are seeing at JTA and have seen at Jaxport.
I understand the resentment, but it happens to all of us - doing something on the clock that isn't exactly 'work' or at least not 'work' for the company, I know I'm guilty of it.
Do you? What kind of employment do you have, Mtrain?
Quotebut it happens to all of us
What happens to all of us? We all cheat a little? We all lie a little? We all steal a little? It's OK to you? Not me, and that is the reason I bring it up. You probably steal from the collection plate in church and you tell yourself it happens to all of us....
This isn't just doing a little something extra on the clock. Sure, use the photocopier to run off a few party invites, take a box of pens for your kids to use at school, or play Tetris for an hour or two when you finish your work early... That's the kind of normal stuff you can expect on a job.
What this guy was doing was a little bit crappier.
To put the blame fully on Brown, I'd say that's a bit stupid. If a company hires someone who seems qualified for the job and they end up not only doing their job but they're able to do the whole cliché double-date in the same restaurant gag, how is that the head of the companies fault? They didn't see it coming. It looks like this dude was able to TCB in two counties at the same time. Cool for him, I guess.
I wouldn't say it's all mayor Brown's fault that he hired this dude or that it reflects poorly on him. Maybe you're just itching to be angry at the mayor. If that's the case, then fine. Nothing anyone says will change your mind, probably. If you liked the mayor and your mind was changed because if this, I suggest you rethink it.
The thing that bothers me is that the cop has an health issue and he isn't able to take care of it. If this was a cop in most other countries he would never have to worry about his health, other than being put in the line of typical cop danger. The same goes for the people that those cops protect. Their country protects their health. Why can't the brave US give its people the same safety?
What should a country provide for its citizens? Education, safety, and the right to be who they want to be, as long is it doesn't harm other people. Right?
Education covers public schools, a free press, libraries, etc.
Safety covers police, healthcare, firemen, boarder safety, safe roads...
In that article, what was the thing that made you get upset? That a dude was working two jobs or that a bloody policeman is worried about his health? Yes, this cop's workman's compensation forms were supposed to be handled by the main man in the article, but should a cop, OR ANYONE, have to place a workman's comp or some kind of claim to get their health sorted?
That cop shouldn't have to worry about his health, and neither should you or I.
Quote from: mtraininjax on February 29, 2012, 12:00:24 AM
Quotebut it happens to all of us
What happens to all of us? We all cheat a little? We all lie a little? We all steal a little? It's OK to you? Not me, and that is the reason I bring it up. You probably steal from the collection plate in church and you tell yourself it happens to all of us....
I didn't realize there were angels on the board. My apologies. ::)
By the way I wasn't stealing, but I did need to get change for the $5 I put in. ;)
mtrain....very few of us on here expected Alvin to be perfect....but do you really think Hogan would have done better?
^He just likes to act as if this site were populated primarily by rabid Brown supporters. In reality, many of us actually supported certain other candidates who were knocked out in the primary, and only went with Brown by default as the clear better choice in the general election.
That said, I've been less than impressed with a lot of Brown's decisions regarding his staffing. He's gotten rid of a lot of good people and it's not clear he's replaced them with people of that caliber or better. This is a problem.