Linda Haugan

The fire department was called to a Transitional Assistance Department (TAD) office because of smoke in the building.  The fire department arrived and told employees to evacuate the building.  Ooops . . . that was a mistake because the fire department forgot to get the permission of the deputy director who was not on-site.   The district managers and supervisors were in a corner office huddled in fear because they didn’t know what to do.  Then they found out the employees were all outside evacuated.   So one of them went outside and ordered all the employees back into the building because they evacuated without permission.  Ah. . . I miss TAD so much.

Linda Haugan

I supposed it was the notice from my attorney that former County Administrative Officer Mark Uffer wants to depo me that triggered a litany of bad memories to come back into the forefront of my thoughts.  I have had a really tough couple of weeks.

My very first contact with Mark Uffer was over a Department of Children’s Services report I had made.  The short version of the story is that a mom and her boyfriend had come into the office to meet with her eligibility worker, her eligibility worker’s supervisor, the district manager, me and my supervisor to complain about the services she was receiving from the CW side of the house.  Her complaints really had nothing to do with ESP but I was one of the few who could get along with her so I was in the meeting. My supervisor was invited as she was new and needed to meet this client as the client was a high profile hell raiser.

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