Comments on: Top lawyer for controller benefits from much-criticized state perk

By: fletch92131

fletch92131 — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 01:34:07 +0000

if the government was interested in solving this problem, they would mandate a rule that more than certain number of banked hours would go on unrecorded/unpaid. I bet you that will solve the problem right away! When I was a fed, there was no such crap about banking hours.

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 23:34:33 +0000

In reply to SeeSaw. For some reason this scam seems to be more limited than the other public employee scams. One reason is because I think only upper level managers, with no one above them really monitoring them or their time off (like Angela Spaccia) can get away with it. So the peons like you seesaw are left out in the cold. Please don't have an aneurysm... I need you comments for their entertainment value :)

By: SeeSaw

SeeSaw — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:18:51 +0000

In reply to desmond. Well, my vacation cap was 400 hours, which required 20 years' continuous service to attain--that is 50 days and it was enforced. Does that entitle me to not have an aneurysm?

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:50:00 +0000

Ted Queeg Ahaul, Do you have anything substantive to inject into the conversation? Teddy Steals says Marbury v. Madison was the very FIRST case ever decided by the United States Supreme Court, and Ted is NEVER wrong :)

By: desmond

desmond — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:42:54 +0000

Ted Queeg Ahaul, Do you have anything substantive to inject into the conversation?

By: john

john — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 04:01:31 +0000

Gov on all levels in this country has become corrupt. The country is in a tailspin economically and our dollar will soon be good only for lining bird cages; we have printed over 4 trillion dollars of funny money under Bernanke and that maneuver will come back to help bring this country to the brink of financial collapse. So even the piggies that the article talks about will be broke like everyone regardless of how much money they can get their hands on; the money will be worthless.

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:58:15 +0000

Desi,

You sound like your tired of dumpster diving for lollipops!

By: desmond

desmond — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 02:29:42 +0000

A friend’s dad said he was taking most Fridays and Monday’s off for the last year and a half, before retirement and would get a year of banked time when he leaves.. He is amazed at all the wealth of people not in govt work and believes his arrangement is modest. Just another member of the most hated generation. I am hoping he has a brain aneurysm his last day of work. Sweet.

By: John Galt

John Galt — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:41:17 +0000

One way to properly control and prioritize spending is to provide fewer funds for these jokers to spend. Is it time for a new “Prop 13” which lowers property taxes from its present 1.0% to a lower 0.50% of assessed value? Real estate values in California have escalated significantly from the mid- 1970s when Prop 13 was adopted. With the rapid increase in market values came the unexpected development of new tax-funded state and local government regulatory agencies further burdening individual and commercial enterprise activities and net earnings. Making tax funds more scarce will force prioritizing, rationing funds to only essential activities, and ultimately push salaries, benefits and pensions of state and local government employees lower than private sector earnings. Paying government workers more than their private sector equals is insane as private sector employees, and their employers, are the origins of all public sector funds. Government wages and percs should always max out at less than the private sector in order to keep systems in balance and growing.

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:47:38 +0000

498 days = 100 work weeks. Chivaro has been an attorney since 1986, 29 years. If he was HIRED in 1986, he would have had to bank 17-18 days (3.5 weeks) PER YEAR, EVERY YEAR, for 29 years to get to the 498 days of banked vacation. I know these yahoo’s in trough feeder land get much more vacation than the private sector, actually much more of everything, but unless Chivaro received 6-8 weeks of vacation since the year he stared it would be impossible to bank that many days. I remember assistant city manager Angela Spaccia at Bell had 300 days of vacation banked, even though her father was sick and she did not go to work for 18 months during a 2 year period, which means she was taking her vacation and other time off but not recording it. I am sure this is COMMON with all the high level managers in trough feeder land that have no one above them to stop this scam. Sort of like the CHP’s “chief’s disease” where the upper level brass all develop a “disability” (from falling out of a swivel chair) during their final 12 months on the job so they collect half their pension tax free.