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San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
My guess is that the labor union is behind this. ===================== Don, once again, the courts have ruled that the union does not represent pre-hires. Therefore the union has no say in the qualifications needed. Trust me, it's been tried.— January 11, 2009 9:03 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Incidentally, the city is hiring firefighters right now. Go on down and put in an application. Oh, and I might draw your attention to this line from the job announcement. "CATEGORY 1: 90 and above" It used to be 96 and above. Since "anyone can do it" and firefighters make more than attorneys, according to Johnny, I assume he'll be down there. Plenty of time to pursue a law career on his days off, since there are plenty, right? Burwell? How about you? Fred? Anyone?— January 11, 2009 6:06 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
FFing is a blue collar "occupatin"/job that is no different mentally or physically from the contsruction trades, such as plumber, electrician, roofer, painter and so forth-and the pay should be on that level. ------------------------- The difference is that we need to have a working knowledge of ALL the trades. Not journeyman level of each trade, but a working knowledge. Perhaps we should be paid the same as a general contractor, instead? But wait... we also need to have the skills of a truck driver, understand weather conditions, understand at least the basics of medicine and more. Incidentally, most firefighters would love to make what a journeyman electrician makes. That's $35 an hour, or almost $73,000 per year plus benefits. http://www.sdett.org/careerinsidewireman.asp Base wages, no OT. A firefighter has to promote at least once to get to that range without OT. Or become a paramedic. And we only make that while "on call" 40% more, or 56 hours/week. I know, shocking. We make pretty much the same as our union brothers.— January 11, 2009 6:01 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
NO, you do NOT "work" a 56 hour week, you are ON CALL. ====================== Who cares, Johnny? I'm not at home, I can't have a beer, but most importantly, I'm getting paid. How about, "I'm on duty 56 hours a week". As you said, "I don't get why you and a few others get so bent out of shape over the internet......." It's just semantics and you're getting all bent out of shape.— January 11, 2009 5:41 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Fire stations should be staffed three shifts per day, by firefighters who work 8 hour shifts, 40 hours per week. Paying firefighters to sleep is insane. ============================= You do understand that firefighters currently work a 56 hour week, don't you? To switch to a 40 hour week would require hiring a entire fourth shift -- with all of their pay and benefits. Still think that's a good idea? I don't mind working 16 hours less/week if you don't mind paying a lot more in the long run. Why do you care what we do when we're not responding to your emergency? Do you call your insurance company at 3AM just to make sure that they're awake? Or do you take comfort in the fact that they'll be there for you if you need them? That's all we are is an insurance policy. You can pay for the best, or you can get by on the cheap and hope nothing happens.— January 11, 2009 2:52 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
I don't get why you and a few others get so bent out of shape over the internet ========================== Because there are those out there who might actually believe you. That's why almost everything I post correcting you has a link attached. So that other people can see how far off your "2 cents" is.— January 11, 2009 8:05 a.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
If you use that standard you would have to remove all of JF's welfare queen propaganda as "deliberate misstatements of fact". ==================== Propaganda, eh? I've got a damn good history of backing up what I say with links and facts... as opposed to your crap. Want to go back a day or so when you were claiming that California is the only state which allows one to take the bar exam without going to law school? Basically Johnny is simply a troll -- posting the same crap over and over to get a rise out of people. He knows it's BS, we know it's BS, but he knows it irritates people so he does it anyway and we fall for it.— January 9, 2009 3 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
The notion that it is easier, not harder, than in the past for entry into any job is pure baloney. ====================== You're speaking about something you know absolutely nothing about. We've also lowered the score needed to make it to the interview. When I was hired you had to get a 96% or better to be in Category 1. Now the cutoff is 90%. That's the only way there were even 200 people to interview -- lower the testing requirement. You can keep your head in the sand all you want, Johnny. You have no proof other than, "Because I said so". We have lowered the hiring criteria AND we've lowered the academy passing criteria just to get enough folks through the door. A Union Tribune article from 2007 (two tests ago) stated that there were 2078 applications. Of those, many did not have the required EMT certificate. Many did not pass the written test -- even with the lowered standard. I believe that around 350 interviewed. The last test had even lower numbers, hence the 200 number. Even if all 2000 passed the whole testing process, your notion that there are 1000 applicants for every job is pure crap. Sorry, but other agencies just to the north of us are paying 30% more and have better benefits. The end result is that there are few applicants here. Note that nowhere in this discussion have I said anything about paying us more money or increasing benefits. I don't feel that either is needed, given the current economic state. We'll see a few years down the road.— January 9, 2009 9:32 a.m.
Unplugging DeMaio
Since he breaks the law to do it?— January 8, 2009 9:23 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
In typical "I know more than you" fashion, Johnny declared, "The only state that allows a person to take the bar exam wihout formal law school is CA..." ================================= Gee, just a couple of days ago, in this very thread, I posted a link to an article which gives the real stats for Johnny's claim. http://nctimes.com/articles/2009/01/03/news/inlan… Turns out that seven states allow people to take their bar exam without going to law school. Not one. Seven. See now why I say that Johnny's stats are all fouled up?— January 8, 2009 5:50 p.m.