"Quality county employees such as myself (and I am absolutely in no way associated with the Good Ole Boy network) are facing the possibility of getting laid off after the Council goes over the budget tomorrow while THIEVES are getting paid to not work!!!!! I am sick and tired of Rick's bullshit (Sorry, I'm swearing on this one...). I face getting laid off dispite coming to work EVERY DAY and working EVERY HOUR while half of the other county workers are lazy ass slackers that don't even do half of their ridiculously light and easy job descriptions!
I'll tell you this Joe, if I'm forced out the door you WILL be hearing from me! I will expose the County for all it's worth. There will be no rock unturned and no slack employee uncovered. The citizens of Wicomico County have no idea how overstaffed their local government is or how outdated most of the job descriptions are or how much time is stolen or how inadequate the employees are or how much politics plays in decision making when it shouldn't! The only reason I haven't come out yet is because I NEED my job and the squealers are always the ones to go; look at what happend to Deanne Walker! I have enough dirt on most of the current elected officials to completely destroy if I ran against them; including Rick!
Let's see what heads get chopped first...who's it going to be Rick? Are you going to do the right thing and maintain your political career or are you going to protect yours "boys" and be outted? It's your decision Rick, do the right thing"
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Sounds like a crazy any way! Fire this person ! No body likes a snitch or someone who uses threats to keep there job. As the queen in alice in wonderland says off with her head!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the post. There are a lot of hard working, QUALIFIED, employees at the County. You want to fire someone useless, lets look at that kid Joe Arthur. He is the non-engineer (failed his engineering examination multiple times) who works as a County Engineer. What a liabilty. And a major oversite of the County government. We need to keep the valuable employees and cut some dead weight.
ReplyDeleteGo ahead Rick...make my day hahahaha
ReplyDeleteCould 1258 possibly be the Solid Waste employee that kept his job after stealing because he has the dark brown streak? lol
ReplyDeleteBetter yet, probably the little antagonizer.
Only cowards name names under anonymous. You want to throw stones, well do it broad daylight like you have some stones or go away.
ReplyDeleteIf Rick didn't want a snitch, then he should have never hired an Internal Auditor. That is basically what their job is. Oh yeah, the smoke and mirrors of looking like things are in place as they should be.
ReplyDeleteYou should have just bought the cookies.
ReplyDeleteIf people did their jobs the correct way we would not need a "snitch". Government has always had more people than necessary. We have assistants to the assistance. If it was run like a business we would have half the employees and work more efficiently. Thank you snitch.,please speak up when necessary,.
ReplyDeletePaging Mr. Fineran . . .
ReplyDelete[Where's the "PIO" when Ricky really needs him to spin this around to make him look good?]
Paging Mr. Fineran . . .
The County is in violation of the charter by not having an internal auditor. However, they have made it impossible to hire anyone by firing without cause the previous one. Had there been cause then they would have told her why she was being fired. The truth is she was doing too good of a job. No ethical accountant wants to work for the County as an auditor.
ReplyDeleteAnon 1:07 I personally have never had a problem with Joe and found him to do a very thorough job. Stop tossing names unless you are willing to put up yours. My bet is you are trying to keep your job in this mess.
ReplyDeleteJoseph Arthur for County Executive!
ReplyDelete1:07 is so right. As a developer I had to deal with Joseph on a project. He sent me through hoops becuase he didn't have the knowledge or experience to help me. I basically had to bypass him and go to John. He wasted a good bit of my time and money. How he got that position at the County baffles me.
ReplyDeleteyes..this really sounds like a reasonable, objective person. It's this kind of valuable and factual input that will help solve this crisis.
ReplyDelete22 million dolars short correct? Where the heck are they going to cut all this from? Thats alot of money.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed the same situation with the "Good Ole Boys" on Worcester County's payroll taking care of each other while most are taking it easy while on the job.
ReplyDeleteAm sure they have been discussing county business while several of them have been taking advantage of the nice weather on their boats fishing or on golf courses during work hours at the taxpayer's expense and I sure hope so because check out the link below which details their WHOPPING salary amounts...UNBELIEVEABLE!:
http://www.oceancitytoday.net/news/2010-03-26/Top_News/OCEAN_CITY_GOVERNMENT_2009_PAYROLL_FROM_50K_AND_UP.html
I am a Wicomico County employee too. I deal with several departments, and there are a ton of people who are paid to do nothing. It is sad.
ReplyDeleteThe government , Federal , State and County have always been very laxed in their jobs because they felt they were above the law or rules that apply to the working class. Most don't earn or never have been what is called productive in or society. Most everyone knows this and has accepted this for many years. The tide has turned now , so suck it up . If they were doing bad things or doing nothing at all , then they should have been turned in long ago. Again , suck it up!
ReplyDelete"snitch" ..You sound like "one mad housewife."
ReplyDeleteNo Government at any level should leave staff reductions off the table when the budget is tight. If it were being administered in an efficient manner, there would not be any unexpected budget shortfalls. No Government employee should feel they have the right to a Government job forever either. Obama claims he has "saved" jobs. O'Malley claims he has "eliminated" jobs (that were vacant), and the Mayor of Baltimore is actually going to lay some people off.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that I have been laid off from more private sector jobs than the author of this post has ever had.
I just got home from my local Wicomico County Landfill Transfer Station and was told by the Attendant that starting next week they'll be closing at 5PM instead of 6PM during DST to save money. He mentioned it will cost him 3K in wages. WOWZER!
ReplyDeleteHes going to have to do it all, 22 million. Lay-offs, eliminating positions, cut every ounce of fat, and borrow some from the WBOE. Hes going to have to do it all. Thats still not going to be enough. Taxes will go up.
ReplyDeleteI was at Pittsville School yesterday and there were 3 men cutting grass. Well maybe 2 1/2. The youngest of the 3 that were there kept stopping the riding mower to read texts or to text to someone. He had only made a couple of passes and had stopped 5 times to text to someone. Where is it that a county government employee is allowed to waste my tax dollars and use work time to text. If he wants to talk or text, stay home, if he wants a job put the phone away. This is a much lower paid employee, but he was still wasting work time.
ReplyDeleteThe Detention Center is currently down 19 officers. Open testing this Saturday at the Civic Center.
ReplyDeleteThat said, How can the County justifiy having employees taking mandatory furlough days then having to pay another officer overtime to cover posts for officers who are out on furlough?
County Council is going to double furlough days for all county employees. I agree that we all have tighten our belts and do more with less. Having posts covered at less than minium number of officers is unsafe for the inmates and officers. Let the exempt staff cover posts instead of having to pay overtime to overworked officers.
A group of knowledgable citizens should audit each and every position used in the county and consolidate those that are not effective and lack real purpose. When money is plentiful, many jobs are created just because, but now that money is tight, we should start by cutting the fat at the top and work down to improve and streamline government.
ReplyDeleteRumors at the GOB are saying similar things about the city, that everyone will get cuts, furloughs. Might not have to happen if they'd can the slackers. There are some kick butt people working for the city while others barely work.
ReplyDeleteSuxx. People who work hard should get rewarded. Goof offs should get fired.
Still think the depression is over?
ReplyDeleteAt the mall yesterday I noticed 2 men with a pickup repairing curbs damaged by snowplows. Could not help but think that if this was city or county work it would be 6 workers, 2 dump trucks, and a loader. And they'd probably have the street closed!
ReplyDeleteThe situation with over staffing is what occurs when jurisdictions get flush with cash during economic prime times. Just like government departments that never turn back excess money left from their budget, when a jurisdiction finds itself swimming in money from fees and tax receipts, they'd rather spend it by buying needless equipment and hiring more people then return it back to the taxpayers in the form of substantial reductions in fees and taxes. You see, the attitude in government is if you give money back, then people will think you don't need as much the following year and they'll cut your department's request. So departments and government jurisdictions find a way to spend every nickel they get. Only problem is, in time the worm turns and the economic sputters. The ax has to fall and heads roll.
ReplyDeleteSomeone please file a freedom of information and ask the bOE for the names of the positions (titles) that did not exist before 2000. Since 2000 more and more employees have been added as coordinators, specialist, ...etc JUst last summer 8 new positions were added. At least 2 building principals had melt downs and were given jobs at the boe in created positions. Reading specialist, math specialist who do not have classes, PD coaches, new teacher coaches (positions once held by part timers who worked without benefits) I bet there are several million dollars worth of jobs saved just by eliminating a whole bunch of created positions. I would like to see the list of non classroom teacher/administrator jobs and positions created scince 2000!!!! I would be glad to give Joe my name and email address in a personal email if he request it. I will not post it here, cause I work for the BOE and see everyday, people working at jobs that are totally unnecessary and doing without them would not affect the students. The amount of waste is astounding. The Super makes statements about how much magnet cost and he does not have a clue. The per student cost at N Salisbury is less than anywhere else in the county. The class sizes are larger and the MOI budget is smaller. Letting go just one BOE created job would fund 2 magnet programs. Find 12 million of waste at the BOE, how many PIOs does Fredrickson need???? No one is in charge at the BOE, just cut out the redundancy and a few of the positions who have everyone esle do their jobs.....
ReplyDeleteSo you are trying to blackmail an official with the threat that you will throw him and other employees under the bus if you don't get your way?
ReplyDeleteThis person does NOT have the tax payers in mind. If they really cared about the tax payer they would bring forth this information without conditions or at least leak it.
Let me get this straight, you know of massive waste in the county government and will only speak up if layed off. where I work we protect the company assets. You work for the county and don't feel you should protect the people of the county? I do hope you get layed off. Please blow the lid off of what is going on, maybe just maybe you will do us all a favor. This makes me wonder how many others out there are aware of lazy slacker, time stealing county workers. By the way I hope you didn't raise any kids to be as cowardly as yourself. Have you ever once thought that if those exceptional employees that you spoke of were terminated earlier you wouldn't have to threaten to expose them and yourself for what you are?
ReplyDeleteOh, They built the ship Titanic,
ReplyDeleteThey built it strong and true,
And they thought they had a ship,
That the water wouldn't go through.
It was on her maiden trip,
That an iceberg stuck the ship.
It was sad when the great ship went down.
Government is, by its nature, somewhat redundant, and some waste in that process is inevitable. A "lean and mean" government infrastructure that is subject to catastrophic failure if one critical element fails that is not backed up with some degree of redundancy (and inherent "waste") is not something the voters would long put up with. So when people start complaining about government “waste” it's important to be very precise about what jobs you consider to be "redundant" and "wasteful".
ReplyDeleteHaving said this there are a lot non-critical borderline "make work" jobs at the WBOE. The problem is that defining what jobs are useful and necessary vs. non-critical would take a huge amount of analysis, and is a job that almost no one in this county has the expertise to undertake. In addition there would be huge political push back by the connected bureaucrats whose jobs are threatened.
Beyond this, when it comes to Wicomico teachers I'm inclined to let the WBOE have some slack. I'm a local businessman and Wicomico school kids are the among the dumbest, most poorly behaved little cretins I've ever seen, and this is directly attributable to their crappy, trailer trash parents. Teaching the brats of Wicomico County is like a prison sentence.
9:22 - I couldn't have said it better. I work for the BOE (and the reason I am staying anonymous - getting fired for having thoughts contrary to the 'establishment' is a VERY real reality for me) at the central office, and can tell you that the fat is not with the worker bees over here - it is with the mid to upper level mgmt. Fredricksen is trying to keep his 'team' but the unsaid/unwritten word is to cut staffing - by this, he means the little guy/gal. I'm happy to tell you that I make just over 37k here and am not complaining, but there are three managers making 100k+ that are in what I would term non essential jobs. By this I mean jobs that do not directly affect students. Being an insider of sorts, he needs to cut this waste first, but unfortunately this will never happen. Like the CEOs on Wall Street, he will protect his own and us little people will getting the axe. Joe, we need your help as we can't defend ourselves on this. There is a whole group of us who perform services directly to children and disadvantaged kids who are going to get canned. We can't speak up to defend ourselves as it had been made very clear that any shot we might have of avoiding the budget axe will dry up if we speak out. HELP JOE, HELP!
ReplyDeleteThe county department I work in has lost over 20% of its workers since last July. Were we overstaffed then? No. There is no waste in our department. I would like to know what department the author of this posts works in because he must be in a different world. We will surely lose more people. I hear a list is to be posted on the county website friday with who gets the axe. (don't know if it is true, but it is a hell of a way to find out you've lost your job). The people we have left are performing multiple jobs and I guess thats good, but don't know how long we will be able to continue. I worked in private sector prior, but I don't really see a difference in productivity here versus there. There is always a push to save money and get the job done quick. Whoever authored the post, you certainly weren't talking about my department so quit talking out of your a$$. The worker bees aren't where they are going to save 22 million dollars.
ReplyDeleteI live on the West side a mile from the ferry. This ferry was put there for the convience of the people it serves. For years it has run on a schedule that meets most people's needs. Now all of a sudden, Mr Pollitt I am told decided to cut the hours to close at 5:30 each day. How does that help those people trying to get back home from work. If you really need to save that little bit of money Mr. Pollitt,close it on Sun and keep it open till 7-7:30 thru the week. Early morning and after work is when people realy need it......and 5:30 helps NO ONE. I resent some of the absolute stupid decisions you are making. I certainly hope someone comes along that can run this county with better decisions that you have made in more areas than one. Folks the best thing you can do for yourselves is VOTE HIM OUT!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteCounty, State, LOCAL, they are all alike. Trust me I know. It has nothing to do with how much work you do. It’s all politics!
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:22
ReplyDeleteWhy don't YOU pull the information you're asking someone else to pull?!
I can't stand people with all the "ideas" who want to do NONE of the work!
8:26, what do you do during the half of the year that it closed at 5:30 before. The hours have always been until 5:30 when it is not daylight savings time, they just made it 5:30 all year. The ferries can't run until 7 or 7:30 because it is dark most of the year at that time. The Wicomico county charter requires the county to maintain roads, nowhere does is say to provide a free ferry service that only serves 5% of the population of the county. (or less) You chose where you live and if you bought your house there with the ferry transportation in mind, well, then you didn't make to smart of a decision given that any day it can break down, be closed for high wind, high tide etc. If you don't like it, call the executive and council and tell them to fund roads, instead of b!tchin on this blog.
ReplyDeletei work at a manufacturing plant in town, and there are always people not giving 100 percent. The number one distraction is the cell phone, i mean people are on it for 30 minutes at a time, and if they aren't talking on it they are texting or on internet on it for 30 minutes at a time, and the "supervisors" don't have the balls to tell them to knock it off, WTF. I'm there busting my butt over and beyond my duties, and they get the same pay and raises as i do. And we wonder why jobs are going over seas. Wake up American workers, do the right thing and actually work, if not, i'll see you in mexico.
ReplyDeleteMy friends the well is going dry in this country and it's not going to get better. Until we bring manufacturing jobs back into this country and put an end to welfare (wic, medical assistance, medicaid, earned income tax credit for people who don't even work, subsidized housing, purchase of care for daycare, independent cards)we will surely turn into a third world country. Our roads already look like we live in one.
ReplyDeleteWicomico is far from the only county with these issues
ReplyDeletewhy would someone give their name and give up their edge before using their ace? lol simpletons
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