Daily Archives: January 18, 2010

iePolitics: More on Welfare Fraud Investigator Situation

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Just to keep everyone updated as I have lost most phone numbers and emails, we are still trying to get a date set for a meeting.  I’ve also been discussing the situation with newspaper reporters and we have some interest.  They understand that if anyone is willing to go on the record it will have to be those that have been forced to resign or retire as current fraud investigators will face loss of their jobs.

The reporters I’ve spoken to so far seem incredulous that the classification has been so decimated and the reason for it.  Everyone knows welfare fraud is rampant in this county and getting worse. Continue reading →

iePolitics: A Nice Comment

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I can write about this since it was mentioned to me both during group and outside of group.  One of the group members, who I had never met before last week and who is not a county employee, was out somewhere this past weekend.  He happened to eavesdrop on a group of people who were sitting nearby.  He heard them mention me by name and mention the blog.  I can’t remember what all he heard now, but he told me that I have a huge support group out there. Continue reading →

iePolitics: Assertive Rights

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Many of my friends have been through the Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) at Kaiser and have highly recommended it to me.  If it weren’t for county employees, those groups would be empty.  I tried to go some months ago, but my supervisor at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center came unglued at the thought.  More recently, my doctor all but insisted on it.

I know how many county employees suffer from depression and I can’t recommend the group enough.  If you have a supervisor like mine, ask to see Dr. Belin.  Mark Uffer ended her county career after 25 years, and as she keeps telling me, there are a lot better places to work than San Bernardino County.  She understands what we are going through and will tell the county to “pound sand” on your behalf if she thinks you will benefit from the program.

Today we were given a list of “Assertive Rights.”  I thought some of you might find them interesting. Continue reading →

iePolitics: The Little Things In Life

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I know we still have a lot of former San Bernardino County Jobs and Employment Services Department Employment Services Specialists reading the blog. How many of you remember the days before TAD decimated our department when we went through programs to help make us better employees rather than destroy our ability to get our job done?   Anyone remember the poverty training we had to go through?  Somewhere I still have the book describing the survival skills necessary to be living in a lower-class situation, a middle-class situation, and an upper-class situation.

Do remember the questions we had to answer?

  • Do you know how to get the executive membership at the country club?
  • Do you know how to keep your laundry from being stolen at the laundromat?
  • Do you know how to pick a daycare center?
  • Do you know the time of day stores deposit their expired food in the dumpster?
  • Do you know how to get your child into the most exclusive private schools?
  • Do you know where the food banks are located and when they give out food?
  • Do you know how to hire a maid?
  • Can you tell the difference between silk, linen and cotton and how to care for each?
  • Do you know how to get your children to fall asleep when they are still hungry?

And many more. Continue reading →