Sometimes being dedicated to your boss can get you perks. Sometimes you think so highly of your boss that you are willing to do damn near anything to make them happy. You might even go so far as to falsely accuse a member of the public of assaulting you when they dropped a piece of paper in your lap! Remember that Mike Goldberg? Thankfully the video tape proved her wrong, but did she get disciplined at all over that? Inquiring minds want to know. There was another gentleman that was attending council meetings and didn’t agree to give his name. So, what does Heather do? Tries to sneak a picture of his truck tag so her buddies in the GOB could figure out who he was. But she got caught and called out on it. What was done about her unprofessional behavior? Like all of her bad behavior, NOTHING! And let’s not forget the three-car accident she caused, that within 15 minutes was back in another county vehicle. Do any other employees get that same privilege when they have an accident in a vehicle? Nope, they are not allowed to drive a county vehicle for the remainder of the day and are taken for a drug test. Not Heather, her test was a blow and go…
How many employees has Heather intimidated and berated so badly that they needed a trip to the hospital or an unlimited supply of medication? One of her favorite tricks to make an employee look bad is to cancel staff meetings for just the one coworker she wants to screw with. When they keep missing meetings, they look like the bad guy when it was actually her all along! Why is she continually allowed to mistreat staff? Why was a landfill supervisor calling her Madame Cuckoo Pants to her face? And why did the company that built the existing landfill cells, say after working with Heather Lankford and the Landfill Superintendent, that they would never do business with the County again? Heather Lankford was the engineer in charge at the time and directly responsible for the delays and confusion.
So, what is it about this engineer that is so special that all of her horrible behavior is actively encouraged and never punished? And why during an upcoming election was she hidden away from the GOB and sent out to no-man’s land in General Services on Owens Branch Road? Heather Lankford=huge liability for the County! And the Executive knows it!
More to come…
Can you say Safari-in-the-Quarry!
Thank you for publishing what the local papers won’t! People need to know what’s really going on in our County under Julie Giordano. Salisbury mainstream media won’t print or report anything that is not feed to them from “news releases “. Keep doing what you do!
She ran a 25 plus year roads super and his asst out the door! She could not engineer a Lego set. What running the roads dept now could not manage a not farm.
I totally agree with you! I have been asking Ms Giordano for months to have Mill Branch Road outside of Mardela Springs paved. It’s in bad shape and carries much traffic. After a summer of watermelon buses and logging trucks all summer and now farm equipment, it has only gotten worse. I never get a response from Giordano or the county roads dept. I have also made my request to them several times and again, I get no response . Lee , who used to be a supervisor with the county road division was exceptionally good about responding but those days are gone.
I think his name was Lee Outen (Outten?_) No sure of the spelling. But, he was wonderful!!
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Lankford can barely drive her county car sober let alone do adult work. NO ONE in Roads would save her from a burning building…she does not have the skills to clean the GOB building bathrooms.
Speaking of local govt bathrooms the one at Pemberton Park is disgusting. They should just close them until a upgrade can be completed. They profusely smell of urine and have enough pubic hair in and around the mens urinal to cover a Yorkie ! Just nasty !!!
Harassment contributed to numerous employees leaving the Roads and Solid Waste departments. Those that were nearing full retirement eligibility -reportedly remained in their positions as long as they could, while seeking medical treatment and prescribed medication to help them cope with the toxic working conditions. Human Resources received formal complaints documenting these conditions. Heather installed additional security cameras at both facilities without approval by the IT department, reportedly for the purpose of monitoring entrances and hallways. However, employees subsequently received calls on their office and cell phones referencing activities that appeared to have been observed moments earlier through the camera system. These observations included work-related conversations taking place among employees. After concerns were brought to the attention of Human Resources, the Information Technology department inspected the camera placements established by the installation company. During this review, it was determined that some cameras were directed toward employees’ desks rather than being limited to entrances and hallways. IT subsequently adjusted the camera angles to change their fields of view
Wouldn’t it be great to see all this information on a very highly viewed billboard just before election?
I overheard her talking about someone named Joe and how she and others from a group chat or forum were trying to cross reference times he was working at the college (SU) to times he posted about his Council campaign – in order to ascertain whether he was promoting his council campaign during the time he was paid to be conducting campus activities. She was clearly out to get someone!!