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San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
I know who ARE in the system? Yep... a genius all right. It should be, "I know who IS in the system". But you didn't pick that up, even after a second look. ======================== OK Grammar king, I don't think I was technically wrong, or that it matters, but I iwill give that gift that one to you.— January 6, 2009 3:10 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Interesting English usage for someone in the "top 1%" ===================== What???? No typos there. Grammar looks good.......what is wrong with that post?— January 6, 2009 2:08 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Hey, here is a GREAT LINk that really puts the public union pension scam into perspective. Amazing; http://ibvallejo.com/index.php?option=com_content…— January 6, 2009 2:07 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Most of the welfare queens don't let me get under their skin so easily- take a chill pill, watch the game on TV tonight and call me in the morning, OK "jamesems".................lol~!!— January 6, 2009 1:38 p.m.
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I hate it when the Chargers win because they start playing the "San Diego Super Chargers" song and it sticks in my head for weeks on head. I am constantly repeating it to myself over and over and over again. I cannot stop it. It is one cool, catchy tune............— January 6, 2009 1:35 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
JV, STOP. You're the guys that misquotes JF. YOU BUDDY! Your pathetic misdirection attempt at deriding my education is equally as embarrassing. Yet, you claim to be in the top 1 percent? Of what I wonder. Between your and Fred's claims of superiority, without any provocation, well, let me just say, it makes me wonder. ================================== Relax welfare queen......Dont take this so seriously. It's only the internet.— January 6, 2009 1:32 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
No, JF, fighting fires is NOT that difficult. What is difficult is navigating the system to ever be hired as a firefighter in the first place. There are hundreds, if not thousands of people in San Diego who could do this work -- especially Navy vets who underwent at-sea firefighting training. But the extraneous requirements and politicization of the work prevents them from joining the department. Your union is a big reason for this. =================================== THANK YOU. This is on the money. JF, I also know many ex-navy (who would have guessed in San Diego....lol), and I can confirm that I have been told when they are on the ship there are times when you will work 7 days a week, for 10-15 or more hours a day. One ex navy guy told me he worked 7 days a week for weeks on end- this is hearsay and I cannot vouch for it-but I have no reason to doubt it. I would suggest this is far more difficult than your job-even on the nights when you get no sleep because you are running calls the entire night. I agree with Fred 100% about FF jobs- the vast majority of the applicants could do the work. I feel the same way about PD work.— January 6, 2009 1:31 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
JV's statement "NO cop has a JD at HIRE", makes me scratch my head. Where did JF state that. He said "some officers obtain a JD while employed". Additionally, the City personnel department is the group charged with hiring based on recommendation from the agencies conducting the interview/testing. That's why is called a "personnel department". JV's rage has blinded him to rational debate. For his part, anything that is said that is favorable to the opinion he opposes is considered a fabrication. It's just too obvious. The sophomoric name calling is further evidence of his out and out detest. =================================== Hi welfare queen, welcome aboard. Don't tell me, GED and military is how you were gifted your public job???? And your college education was from the "school of hard knocks". More incompetents trying their best to justiy their scam. Jigs up-deal with it.— January 6, 2009 1:22 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
City personnel does the final tabulation and offers of employment. ======================================= Making an offer based on oral scores from the FD brass is NOT city personnel determining who gets hird. The oral interview is when a public agency decides if they want you-and it is the ONLY part of the interview process that matters = where 85% of all applicants are FAILED, based on a a SUBJECTIVE oral interview, not because they failed an objective written test-and in the vast majroity of PD's the writen exam is pass/fail. Here let me post what you wrote; "The final hiring stages are done by city personnel... not members of the PD or FD." False. City personnel may make the offer-but thye do not decide who gets hired, the dcision to hire comes from the ones who do the oral interview- FD personnel.— January 6, 2009 1:19 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
A large portion of the police officer position requires interaction with people. That is tested pre-hire by an interview. =============== Hey Einstein, millions of jobs require interaction with the public. Virtully ALL retail and sales jobs require interaction with the public- and these types of jobs produce a far more public service oriented employee than a cop does- and are 100 times better at it- but they are not making $200K per year now are they. As for your line that this is tested pre-hire by an interview-thanks for pointing out another public union line of baloney. The people doing interviews for PD positions are the very same GED hires that produced the Mark Furmans and Mike Caronas in law enforcment. You have GED's hiring other GED's, no surprise there. JF, your baloney won't work on me, maybe the average hero worshipping sap-but now me. I know how the system works, I know who are in the system, and it is not the best or the brightest.— January 6, 2009 1:13 p.m.