[quote bearishgurl]The short answer is . . . most currently-employed public servants in CA at the State, County and municipal level are hopelessly overloaded. … For instance, I recently had a civil “client” who had pled guilty to a “wet reckless” (in lieu of a DUI) six months prior and their annual auto insurance premium was about to come due. When they checked with the DMV, they found out the local branch court who took their plea had NOT YET reported the lesser wet reckless charge to the DMV … When I accompanied her to the courthouse and waited in a 45 min line to talk to a clerk, we found out that this particular section was 9+ months behind in DMV reporting.[/quote]Holy freaking crap.. haven’t they heard of computer systems? How manual is their record keeping? How about a little automation? Setting up the requirements for any installed systems so that they integrate instead of duplicate, replicate and multiply the paperwork? I can do a $100K+ stock purchase and it gets cleared within 3 days (money transferred, stock transferred.. etc). In one day on the market, billions of shares are transferred between millions of accounts (just looking at NASDAQ). I don’t think asking the court system to be able to update their record keeping within 1 week is too much. More people is not the solution. Better approach is.
[quote bearishgurl]Also, I didn’t mention the “SS offset” which affects all SS-eligible public servants from all levels of government. It represents +/- 5% of the worker’s pension. For example, for a worker who receives a public pension of $800 month, they will have approx $40 deducted from their monthly SS benefits when they become eligible for them.[/quote]Um.. +800, -40 is not much of an offset.
[quote bearishgurl]This doesn’t even take into account the working conditions and voluminous rules and regulations the typical public worker has to abide by (if they want to remain free of disciplinary action).[/quote]All aspects have rules to abide by.
Disclosure rules and rules for insiders(corp owners, parties to critical info..).
Rules for subcontract managers for defense contracts.
Rules for Series 7, 3 licenses.
Rules in dealing with clients if you are a psychologist, medical practitioner..etc — don’t want to do 1000 words here, with 100s of examples
[quote bearishgurl]These public jobs are for the taking, Piggs. I urge you to apply and go thru the “selection process.” It will be an “eye-opening” experience even if you don’t get hired.[/quote]How many of these ‘selection process’ rules/procedures/requirements are actually required and how many of them are rote, because that is the way it is always done or to fulfill some political agenda?
