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Names of $100,000 City Retiree Club
As I've said, Johnny is welcome to stop spending his entire day blogging -- he posts here, on the Union Tribune, on the Voice of San Diego, on the Orange County Register and the Vallejo Independent Bulleting -- find a victim and sue the department over any of our hiring practices. Perhaps we'll find reason to improve our methods. More likely we won't. Either way, the department members will enjoy getting the OT to testify. Or... put up or shut up.— February 14, 2009 11:36 a.m.
Names of $100,000 City Retiree Club
I'm still waiting for Johnny to post a link to the consent degree. Again, if it's such an issue, Johnny is welcome to sue. The written test is administered by city personnel. If the progeny of a current worker can't score 90% on the test, they're done. End of story. The FD cannot intervene in that. The interview is conducted by FD personnel. My experience has been that they hold the children of employees to a higher standard because they should know better. Those kids need to have done everything that others have done and more to get hired. City personnel then totals the combined score and offers jobs to the highest scoring folks. In other words, if the interview is scored 100%, but if a candidate barely passes the written they won't be hired. This helps to maintain objectivity. And Burwell -- off the top of my head, there have never been four brothers working for the FD. Three, yes, four no. You're welcome to post the last name to prove me wrong. I'll be glad to eat my words if I am. The simple fact is that there isn't that high a number of kids following the footsteps of their parents into the department. Those who do are held to a higher standard. This is more about Johnny's bitterness over his police academy experience than the truth.— February 14, 2009 8:58 a.m.
No Double Dipping
Now let's talk about this "hero" thing for a bit. Back around the turn of the 20th Century, the Chief of the FDNY said, "Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work." I think you'll find most firefighters are fairly humble about what it is that they do. Proud, but humble. Nonetheless, people hail us a heroes. Most guys I know hide from the TV cameras. You're reading a lot into my statements above. I don't think anyone should "bow down to me" and I have a ton of respect for those we serve. I regularly remind those I work with that while some of the emergencies we respond to don't seem like much to us, the person calling has obviously lost control of some portion of their life and needs our help. That's what we do. BTW, you didn't post all day. I assume you were at HQ volunteering?— February 13, 2009 9:58 p.m.
No Double Dipping
Fred, you say that we shouldn't send the whole crew to medical calls. I have a question. If you go into a hospital with a critical illness, how many people will be around your bed? I'm guessing more than the 6 we send. Plus they don't have to move obese folks from the third floor. We have absolutely no way to pre-screen those calls any better. Trust me. We'd like to keep that engine available for the next call. And since you brought it up, medical calls are often just as dangerous as fires. I suppose you've never had the pleasure of wrestling with a drunk covered in blood and puke... in a wrecked car... wedged under a leaking gasoline tanker. I have. Ever had a pissed off HIV+ patient try to spit in your eye? I have. Intubated a bloody Hep C+ traffic accident victim? I have. Wrestled a 300 lb naked, sweaty, combative diabetic with low blood sugar? Well, you get the point.— February 13, 2009 9:46 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
I could pass any test you could pass, only I would perform better than you on every portion. ====================== Once again, I'd like you to show me where I said you couldn't pass the test. Once again, you're putting words in my mouth. I only said that you couldn't get hired. First off, you aren't qualified to even take the test. The simple fact that you won't take the test makes a point I've been trying to get across. Not everyone wants the job. In fact, a lot of people don't want the job. You go off spouting about thousands of applicants for every opening, but that simply isn't true.— February 13, 2009 9:31 p.m.
Names of $100,000 City Retiree Club
Oh Johnny...Please post a link to the consent decree where the San Diego Fire Dept. was forced to address nepotism.— February 13, 2009 9:06 p.m.
Names of $100,000 City Retiree Club
Everyone is entitled to have a fair shot at a gov job based on their qualifications-not their blood line or who they know. ========================= Yep. That's why we've fired the kids of several chiefs from the academy. They got their fair shake and couldn't cut it. That's also why the kids of several past members have never been able to get hired. They competed against the general public and couldn't get hired. Very few children of firefighters are hired in San Diego. Please post a link to the consent decree where the San Diego Fire Dept. was forced to address nepotism. You can't because there never was one. Oh, and you used cossack's post describing his father's retirement as proof of your 1.5% @ 60 during the 80's claim. I don't know where they worked, but the rate here was 2% at 55 with a reduction of .5% for each month before age 55 in the 1981 retirement system. (24.1106b SDMC) That was gone by the mid-80's and replaced by the 2.2 to 2.77 system. That was changed to 2.5 to 2.9999 effective 1/1/97 (MP1) and finally to 3.0% at 50 as a result of Corbett in 7/2000. (Table 1 24.0403 SDMC)— February 13, 2009 5:16 p.m.
Names of $100,000 City Retiree Club
Johnny, please cut and paste the exact line from cossack post where he stated that his dad retired in the 1980's. Of course, you're welcome to retract your statement if you don't.— February 13, 2009 4:25 p.m.
No Double Dipping
Nope, but I do put my life on the line all over this country. So given that you don't do that and never will, then I assume by your logic that you can't make such a whine about my retirement.— February 13, 2009 4:05 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
why do you keep urging him to join the fire department? ======================= Because he will fail in his endeavor, thus showing that his "anyone can do it" bit is crap.— February 13, 2009 4:01 p.m.