[quote=FlyerInHi] . . . It outdid BG’s claim that female county employees should give deference to an old slumlord by wearing clothing he would approve.[/quote]FIH, I thought you were smarter than this. Surely you must know that . . . just like casinos do for their “high rollers,” CA County Assessors give deference and “special treatment” to those taxpayers who pay their taxes for multiple (even dozens) of expensive residential, commercial and agricultural parcels often into the hundreds of thousands of dollars in the last week before taxes are considered delinquent (April 10 and December 10), as they should. Would YOU pay $89,742.67 in your total 1st or 2nd installments of property taxes weeks or months before they are delinquent?? Developers and multiple property owners (or their representative) can make a personal appointment with the assessor’s office to pay their taxes and receive individual receipts for each parcel OR drop their entire sheaf of tax bills and corresponding checks to a supervisor and receive an envelope back with their receipts from their multiple processed tax payments. They’re not even charged for return postage, because they would have to hold up the line for 30 minutes to an hour if they were served in line.

Property taxes are the lifeblood of the state, county and city operations in CA! It doesn’t matter how old the taxpayer is. If they’re coming into the assessor’s office to pay big money to the county, then they deserved to be treated with courtesy, respect and professionalism. That doesn’t include being greeted by a gum-chewing, cleavage-baring, tube-skirted, heavily-tattooed and and/or pierced Millenial denizen with matching purple ball earrings from behind the tax collection counter.

Not only has the county and superior court dress code appeared to have obviously been “relaxed” over the years, wait staff grooming standards in (even expensive) restaurants has also been relaxed … especially for females. During my years as a professional food and cocktail waitress, never in a million years was I or my co-workers allowed to: wear our hair down (shedding in food and drinks served); wear dirty uniforms (or with dirty pockets); wear fake fingernails (esp with decals on them); wear large dangling earrings; have visible tattoos, have body and face piercings; have our bare legs showing; wear dark undergarments under light uniforms (esp with straps showing), etc. Female Millenials are now whining all over the interwebz about being “victims” of a prevailing “rape culture” that they themselves perpetuate by the way they dress and come off in public.

This is why I think Greek organizations serve a purpose, especially for a HS graduate out of an urban CA public high school. College freshmen can rush and be chosen into one of these organizations a little “rough around the edges” in every way, shape and form and graduate as a college senior with a long experience of being required to groom it, walk it and talk it with a variety of adults (incl well-known philanthropists and local CEOs) in different professional and social settings. It gives them a window into the world of work after graduation and provides them with valuable contacts for internships and jobs. To a lesser extent, clubs for different majors on campus also accomplish some of these goals but they are not all-encompassing and require the new “pledge” to take an oath of loyalty as well as certain behavior standards.