Let’s talk about open positions. The county doesn’t have a problem with employees taking on added work especially in unoccupied positions. After all, the job discriptions say, and “any other duty as assigned.” Meaning, you will sometimes do things not necessarily in your wheelhouse and you will need to adjust accordingly. Case in point, years ago when the deputy public works director went onto greener pastures, the landfill superintendent took over the work. The superintendent was given the acting deputy director title and had to fight for two months to get the added pay. So, while adding work to your load is not an issue, getting compensated sometimes is. My wife was doing the recycling coordinator job and the litter control position for over a year and never gave her any compensation. The way she found out about going to just the litter control job, was by watching pac 14 where it was announced. They couldn’t even be bothered to tell her in advance. And after the budget for next year came out, they had bumped up the recycling job a pay grade once she no longer held it. Textbook slap in the face! The next day, Adam said, “I guess you heard about your new job!” What a d!ck. While we are thinking about how we might take action, Julie and her cronies while in a council meeting admitted they were two full-time positions, created them and funded them all with council approval.
Had it not been for Ernie Davis years earlier, she would have still been using her own car for events. While at a clean-up that Ernie hosted, he asked her why she was driving her own car to events instead of a county vehicle. That was the reason she finally got a county vehicle for work use. Ernie saw an issue and took action. Didn’t have to say anything but he did because he truly cares about everyone!
While we are talking about salaries, what about bringing those bottom paying jobs up to a living wage? The public has a different perspective on being a local government worker. They think that employees are overpaid and under worked. When you look at the public works salaries where many of them are driving heavy equipment and requiring CDL’s and they are only making mid 30’s to low 40’s, how do you expect to recruit many quality candidates? Or hire anyone who wants to be able to survive in this economy. But give your fresh out of college grads with no real experience a salary way over all other employees? Where’s the logic?
Salary studies are long overdue. But I think your top people are doing just fine. Focus on those that are not! Let’s try to lead from the bottom! Imagine if the roles were reversed, seriously. If all of a sudden you go from being in charge of everything to being told what to do, when to do it and how to do it. Boy would Julie, Adam, Jessica, Heather and Cory get a better understanding of how poorly they are treating the staff.
The county has lost and or are losing staff like there’s no tomorrow. My Wife left her job because she not only could, she left because of the names we have been mentioning the past few days were abusive. She leaves behind, (unfortunately) a ton of people who cannot afford to leave and have to take the abuse handed to them on a daily basis.
Keep in mind that even I had to stand down for years because these people would retaliate against my Wife whenever I said anything on Salisbury News. She chose to retire just in time for me to expose these people and I have an incredible audience. So much so we believe some will get voted out of office and many of them will get replaced immediately and so be it.
What comes around goes around.
ELECT ERNIE DAVIS FOR WICOMICE COUNTY EXECUTIVE.
Not only do they underpay their equipment operators and CDL holders. They recently said those that are currently acquiring their CDLs will not get paid for it. If you’re not a part of their system when there is possible overtime or after hour emergency calls there are a select few that are called. They don’t adhere to their light duty policy they recently had a case where a gentleman had medical issues. They kept him on the payroll for almost 3 months only because he is one of Julie’s cronies. The gentleman barely has arm function and they proceeded to let him to come to work in which he did absolutely nothing. He wouldn’t even clean a bathroom or sweep a floor which is Highly needed the restrooms are disgusting. That employee just was retired, so now her inside crony is no longer to do sneaky informant jobs for her. Such as a HIPAA violation on another employee or reporting on upper management within the roads division. They bring in outsiders with no training that claim they know how to do a job and they come in and destroy New pieces of equipment and nothing is done about it. And they are constantly being put back onto the equipment, causing more destruction. And there is no professionalism and no one would dare to use the open door policy.