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Mayor's Budget Guts and Cuts But Misses the Fat
This is not surprising, the mayor cut jobs that are needed, keeps whole sections that are not needed and can be done by a fraction of the people. There are Divisions in the City that keep many positions only to justify a program manager´s position or other people brought from the street and made managers over professionals; usually due to old time friendships and loyalty issues. Restructuring consultants don´t interview emplyees in private to hear their point of views. At the contrary, the Deputy Director assigns who speaks with the restructuring folks, or at least he/she (the DD) has to be present and controls the conversation. Often the problem is the existance of the Deputy Director him/herself or his/herfriend who happens to be a person holding another unclassified position. If the mayor wants to really cut unnecessary positions, he needs to start to listen to employees at the bottom, without fear of retaliation. Talk to the accountants, engineers, etc. the real professionals, the´ll tell you (if they know what they say is really off the record). He really needs to clean at the top with information from the bottom, and looks who brought or promoted the ones in management; it could be his own friends, or friends of an old dinosaur who brought them in and they are covering up for each other. I know peole who had nightmares in some of these departments. Do you call this corruption? I don´t know!!!— April 19, 2011 2:27 p.m.