Pissing match, no more?

pocketDragon — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:20:00 GMT

It looks like it's the end of the pissing match between council and the mayor, or Janey and the mayor, or Janey vs. Street. The real question is what changed to allow one of them to tuck in and zip up. Maybe I'll find out that later. And maybe that won't cause any additional pain.

Not wanting to break with tradition, it looks like they'll take one final shot before it's back to "business as usual". Way back a month or so ago, when I was first lain off (is that the right term?) I was told that my leave time would be banked for me and that I would get it back when I came back to work. OK, fine. Then I was told that oops, we cant bank the leave time, so we'll cash it out for you. ...ummm, Ok, guess I don't have a choice in the matter. However, the more I thought about it, the better I liked this Idea. It turns out there are several pertinent differences between the RDA and OHCD. Less leave time can be accumulated, Overtime is difficult to refuse and can only be taken as comp time. This means I'm very likely to run up against my ceiling. And it turns out that, with me taking care of my dad, I'm not going to do as much traveling as in the past. So actually, the cashed out leave time turned out to be good news. In fact, I might even get a tablet out of the deal, put a new roof on my car, ...

Turns out I may be getting ahead of myself. It turns out that as we (the 10 of so hired refugees from the other agencies) were only working for a week before we were unceremoniously laid off, the system (rightfully so) kicked up a flag at the multi-thousand dollar checks. Unfortunately the previous personnel genius didn't thick I was important to send a message with the check requests explaining the situation. So the check processing was delayed which some city worker got around to asking someone ' what up'? That in itself would have been annoying, a delay, however not the end of the world. The rub comes in that It seems that they won't be able to issue the check, even though it's in processing, If I'm currently employed. To me this makes no sense, If the time is converted to money, it's a done transaction. I may have the option of repurchasing my time, but I shouldn't be forced to. So after the 6 week bone-job a little sand for the final thrust. God, I love bureaucracy.

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Pissing match, no more?