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Thread ID: 90161	2008-05-25 02:40:00	City Salary Scam!	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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672366	2008-05-25 02:40:00	The wonderful city of Hemet, California just fired a whole bunch of teachers, wiped off the back pay they owed them and then re-hired them. Cute. :D Does anyone in NZ think this to be kinda low?	SurferJoe46 (51)
672367	2008-05-25 04:22:00	This is the sort of employer behaviour which caused the formation of unions many years ago . The only thing people learn from history is that people don't learn anything from history .	Graham L (2)
672368	2008-05-25 04:54:00	The Teachers represent the strongest union in California . . they got Arnold elected and then they held his nose under water to the law changes that he tried to institute that would get some of them laid off for the same California financial debacle reasons a few years ago . He lost the special election referendum that he tried to get started because they were so vocal . Arnie has NOT recovered from that serious loss . . he was elected to curb and cure the big spending of the Democrats, and when he tried to do it, they all turned on him . Being a Republican sleeping with a Kennedy, (Shriver ne: Kennedy), he has confused the people . Actually, I don't get it, a Kennedy will usually sleep with anybody . Most Kennedy bimbo-blowouts are hushed . . . but then there's Chappaquiddick . Now they get to lose their jobs on a city-by-city level by emergency financial laws that don't require a state-wide election or ballot measure . Unfortunately, the teachers in California are the worst in the nation except for the Ozarks . Most California teachers are not even degreed or college graduates . . they get to work while they start to get an educational degree . . and can do so for eternity it seems . Most never finish, but because they are all "vested" and have seniority by then, they cannot be fired for non-compliance to the educational code of the state . So . . . they just suck the payroll and don't finish THEIR education . My youngest daughter had a teacher who had applied for a degree in Mortuary Sciences in Tennessee (might have well been the Ozarks) and she got her job on the promise that she would continue her education while she held the job . Ten years later and she is still there . . . misspelling and using very poor language skills in all her communiques in notes home to parents . I spell-corrected one once, and sent if back with an F- failing grade in red pencil . She was not amused .	SurferJoe46 (51)
672369	2008-05-25 05:59:00	Yes, I understand the situation. My daughter who is an assistant professor at UMBC says she couldn't believe that things were so bad. She has also taught at WVU and WSU and the grads that were coming from some of the schools and colleges in CA couldn't spell and had never been taught properly. Surprising that they ever get to college level. Better send your daughter over to Godszone to be educated!	lakewoodlady (103)
672370	2008-05-25 06:12:00	Yes, I understand the situation . My daughter who is an assistant professor at UMBC says she couldn't believe that things were so bad . She has also taught at WVU and WSU and the grads that were coming from some of the schools and colleges in CA couldn't spell and had never been taught properly . Surprising that they ever get to college level . Better send your daughter over to Godszone to be educated! SOMEHOW . . . that daughter got an athletic scholarship to CalState Dominguez Hills and is gonna become a corporate lawyer . She's been working as a paralegal assistant for over three years now for a Hollywood law firm . There's my retirement!	SurferJoe46 (51)
672371	2008-05-25 06:43:00	We're doing this with Telecom technical agents . Currently they are employees . So Telecom wants to fire them and hire them back as contractors so they dont have to pay for pensions, healthcare and back-pay and over-time etc .	beeswax34 (63)
672372	2008-05-25 08:14:00	Good on her!	lakewoodlady (103)
672373	2008-05-25 08:25:00	Hi SurferJoe46, I sympathise (or sympathize) with your problem regarding spelling! This reminds me of a little NZ joke. ---------------------------------------------------------- A guy gets to be a member of the Auckland Traffic Police. The sargeant tells him to go up Queen Street and do parking enforcement and be back by 3:00 pm Around 5:00 pm the guy is not yet back but he arrives a few minutes later. The sargeant asks for an explanation! "Well I went up Queen St as you asked and I was near the top and I was told there was an accident around the corner. So I went around the corner and investigated and found a car had hit a horse." The sargeant says, " why did it take so long?" "Well I could not spell Karangahape St so I had to drag the horse to Queen St."	Sweep (90)
672374	2008-05-25 08:54:00	In NZ we do it differently. Make them redundant, pay them out in the 10's ok thousands, then rehire them as contractors at three times their original salary. Just as backwards... but it's the taxpayers complaining this time.	Thebananamonkey (7741)
672375	2008-05-25 09:27:00	Hi SurferJoe46, I sympathise (or sympathize) with your problem regarding spelling! This reminds me of a little NZ joke . ---------------------------------------------------------- A guy gets to be a member of the Auckland Traffic Police . The sargeant tells him to go up Queen Street and do parking enforcement and be back by 3:00 pm Around 5:00 pm the guy is not yet back but he arrives a few minutes later . The sargeant asks for an explanation! "Well I went up Queen St as you asked and I was near the top and I was told there was an accident around the corner . So I went around the corner and investigated and found a car had hit a horse . " The sargeant says, " why did it take so long?" "Well I could not spell Karangahape St so I had to drag the horse to Queen St . " This Polish guy goes to DMV (where we get our driver's licenses here in the States) and he has to take the eye test . The clerk asks him to cover one eye and read the next-to-last line on the card . He says: "W-C-J-S-T-E-S-K-I" and the clerk says: "That's great . . . . do you have the chart memorized?" "Nah", says the guy, "he's my best friend" .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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