Santa Barbara City Offices: CLOSED this Friday, February 17, 2012.
Not only is today a flex Friday for Santa Barbara City employees, Monday is a holiday. In a View poll… 59% of voters said the City’s every-other-Friday-off program should be changed.
Four-Day Weekend for Santa Barbara City Employees
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And it is a four-day holiday for school teachers, too!
Public employees with huge benefits include public school teachers who may be punished under Brown’s budget, if the tax increase doesn’t pass in November, by having to work fewer days and hours.
add: One city department that does _not_ take Fridays off, that has a 7-day work schedule is the Waterfront Department: not all city employees, departments should be painted with the same brush.
Do public employees who don’t take these extended holidays off get paid time and half or double time for their full work schedules?
If they get paid premium rates to work on days other city workers get paid to take off, they do deserve to get painted with the same brush. I bet they also fight to work holidays just to get paid those premium rates.
It’s normal rates, flex days means some departments get the day off, where others don’t. If I still worked for SBB&T, I’d have today off too.
If you work for yourself or as a small business owner, you pay double for any time you take off – for the money you don’t make being open for business, and what you don’t pay yourself for that extra day off.
This perspective is provided so you can see why public employee benefits, paid by those very same hardworking small business owners tax-payers feel so resentful when you claim you are “over- worked, under-paid and under-appreciated”.
Sure it was your choice to harvest these very benefits when you became a public employee, but it is our choice as voters and tax-payers to keep paying you or not. Never let that thought stray too far from your waking mind.
At one time you were called public servants. Now you are called public employee union hogs. Think about turning the clock back.
Aren’t we suppose to be praising the council for re-opening the east side library on Mondays?
Once again i find myself thinking about what a bunch of life sucking union loving liberals we have running city hall.
No doubt this over-hyped “concession” was just a smoke screen for all union concessions the council will be deliberating in the near future.
Grab your ankles my friends, here we go again!
I work for the City and love this 4 day weekend. We get a recognized holiday Monday called Presidents Day. Why is this news? BTW Those of us not working today because of flex day are not paid. We are not scheduled to work today, we don’t get money for not coming in today. What freaking benefits are you critisizing me for? Getting a national holiday off? Since I work for the City, its more accurate to say under-worked, under-paid, and under-appreciated. Human Resources is open to the public, you have every right to come work for the City… wait, why is it that you don’t want to? You want to work for yourself, and have no benefits (the reason people work for themselves is that either they cannot be hired or they the freedom of
unlimited income potential.
Working only for what taxpayers choose to feed you is degrading. Whatever.
and don’t comment on how bad my grammar is in my last post.. I was typing that into my mobile phone while walking along the path here at the beach. I admit, I hate going back to fix my typos and grammar on my phone.
Classic. Need to get a city job.
Forget about it, Classic. Jobs now are going only to those in the in-group, that is, those already there. Newcomers not wanted. For instance, where do you think all the RDA people are going? Why, filling jobs in other departments, even if they have had no connection with the departments. The city may be advertising openings, and they may get 80 or more applications, but those are 80 or more disappointeds since the opening will go to someone already on the city payroll. And, as it happens, the “newcomer” will start at the high end of the pay scale.
It’s not right and it’s not fair and it can be to the detriment of the department and, hence, of the city, but the aim is to protect the existing employees, the “family”, not for the best of the city. Nor is it necessarily for the best of the ratepayers, those for whom the employees are supposed to be working. Not all city jobs are fungible as the city administration seems to think they are; often, the best employee is one who comes in fresh from the real world outside the Armstrong-Casey fiefdom.
Perhaps the SBView will examine what’s happening with this aspect of the RDA, that is, where the RDA employees are going and whether city job openings are in fact, in reality open to all?
All the highest paid jobs filled in the last year in my department were filled by people outside of the City.. in fact there is a huge push to get outside help and block inside talent. I am happy where I am at. I have seen not one single RDA employee get any position in our department.
Inside-talent does carry the onus of demanding unearned longevity-based premium salary rates; pricing themselves out of the market place. Just private industry. Slowly our public debt will get under control, one decision at a time.
This may be a little off topic, but I love the Bear!
Public employee unions and their union-friendly purchased elected representatives, (the ones you voted for) cram down re-hire rights for any discharged employees, which closes the hiring system even more.
Add this list of re-hire rights former employees to the re-assignment rights of current employees with retained seniority perks and you have a very elite, incestuous, in-bred public employee hiring system. Just remember you voted for people to do exactly this to you.
What you also find are several generations of employees with the same family names on the hiring rosters – what is the guarantee they really went through independent hiring scrutiny? How would you know.
Please back up your assertions. Very rare for discharged employee in our City to get rehired. Its called retaining, not fire-rehire. “union-friendly purchased elected representatives”? I like the way you describe office holder. As an office holder you have to be “friendly” with your employees. When public demands service and a candidate supports the services, they get more votes. ( put I too share you frustration with the casualties of the process: us taxpayers)
Who said the city had rehire rights? Must be something SEIU overlooked. However, the topic was general so voters know what to watch out for – who is promising what to whom.
And then what do they do once in office. Do they coddle, or do they cure structural deficits. Who will be the last one elected to turn out the lights if all they do is coddle union demands once they get in. Too many people know pay to play only bankrupts themselves.
You need a new political paradigm if we are all going to survive this together and we do need each other. We do willingly tax ourselves because we do want competent public services.
But we no longer can dispense special favors at taxpayer expense for employee union corrupted votes. That is the changed paradigm. We do want good public servants so don’t worry if you competently and honestly do your business everyday.
Of course, as with any large company, there are staff who work harder than others within the City organization. Generally, however, most of the people I have come into contact with are hard working people who are trying to do their best. Many of the City employees did not get a four day weekend or even a three day weekend because things like the library, the parks, the parking structures, the harbor, the fire stations and the police stations were all open and taking care of business, serving the city residents.
The first day back after a three day weekend is brutal and unproductive. Can imagine the productivity today. Make it five days of innefectiveness and yet another short week .