Comments on: Oblivious journos still ignore public employee step raises

By: pauldsu

pauldsu — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:09:01 +0000

I work for a company in Mountain View for 7 year and never get a raise………is that illegal?

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:03:59 +0000

Ah yes, Running Dog again denigrates military pensions. Janitors at the waterworks are getting $60,000 pensions, while career military Navy Captains and Army Colonels get $30,000 — and Skippy slams military folks for their “scammed” pensions.

BTW, my pension as a Navy RESERVE Commander with 26 years (4 years active) is about $1,200. Skippy makes several times that pension for doing — what? — public employee union boss activity? Posting endless tripe in comment sections? That’s my guess.

Always good to hear from the master scammer. I LOVE it when he belittles those who serve in uniform.

Well, at least he’s posting for a good cause — incompetent, lazy, nonperforming labor union workers in safe jobs who never get deployed — who get pay increases just for showing up — and are never fired for anything less than criminal activity.

By: SkippingDog

SkippingDog — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:02:56 +0000

Always nice to see Rider show up to bite the hand that has fed him and his wife throughout his adult years. Ready to give up that Navy retirement check you scammed yet, Richard?

By: SkippingDog

SkippingDog — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:01:29 +0000

Thanks Chris. I open the U-T every day and hope you’ll actually write something sensible on behalf of Papa Doug. The closest you’ve come was the recent endorsement of Lorena Gonzalez, but that was a cheap endorsement from you since she was running against another Democrat in a solid Blue district.

BTW, did you write that one or did you farm it out to an intern?

By: Donkey

Donkey — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:45:39 +0000

We need to cut the pay, perks, pensions, and benefits of all the RAGWUS members, and do away with the corruption they have built into their crooked system. A complete demolition and then overhaul of the public employee system is overdue!! 🙂

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:47:20 +0000

IF the weak government employees were weeded out, then MAYBE such automatic pay increases would make sense. But government employees are seldom fired after two years on the job. Teachers are almost IMPOSSIBLE to fire after two years except for criminal activity.

There is zero ECONOMIC incentive for such DE FACTO tenured government workers to excel in their work — only personal pride keeps some performing at a high standard. But all get the raises, simply for showing up.

Ask any good teacher about this, and they will tell you the horror stories of how a few incompetent but protected teachers can drag down an entire school. I speak from experience — having had dozens to teachers as clients, and my wife was a career public high school (mentor) teacher.

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:34:46 +0000

Getting a raise is ok…..you doomers get them when liberals raise the minimum wage…..be thankful government looks out for you. No one else cares about you!

By: S Moderation Douglas

S Moderation Douglas — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:13:39 +0000

I understand that, Chris. My question is, How “many” is the “many state employees” who get this kind of step raise, other than teachers.

And my comment was, the step raises, as SkippingDog implied, is there for a reason. Absent inflation, the existing step raises reward experience and help to retain qualified employees.

COLA,s, on the other hand, are negotiated to compensate for inflation and other market forces. Not the same thing.

Part of Meg Whitman’s mantra was to “end automatic annual raises” for government employees. These step increases are NOT common to ALL government employees, and should not be confused with automatic COLAs in some (private sector)union contracts. (No government union I am aware of has automatic Cost of Living increases.)

By: Chris Reed

Chris Reed — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:23:11 +0000

Teachers in California typically get automatic raises for 15 of their first 20 years on the job, Douglas.

Skipping Dog, congrats on your unrelenting trolling. I look forward to your first surprising comment.

By: SkippingDog

SkippingDog — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:13:49 +0000

If anyone has experience with journalistic incompetence, it most certainly would be someone on the editorial staff of both the OC Register and the U-T. Congratulations, Chris! I guess you’ll just never understand why employees become more valuable over time and that fact is reflected in step increases.