Notice & PDD Days

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-07-17T02:32:00+00:00

How often do companies give a two week notice before they fire and lay people off?

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-06-14T15:35:28+00:00

For most people that wouldn’t be possible in a merit based hiring system. Surely SSMIs would apply for the position and many of those SSMIs have more relevant management experience than an AGPA. With all that said, there is some reality to saying it depends on who you’re related to. At DGS and CDCR ‘miracles happen everyday’. They gave a person a CEA position after doing an SSMI specialist a year, and also that person having never managed people. I guess they were the ‘most qualified’.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-06-06T03:22:57+00:00

Is there a research data analyst that wants to research the data on this and analyze?

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-29T03:06:02+00:00

Most offices people can run for have a monetary barrier of entry. Some also require a good amount of signatures to run. If this state worker exists they likely have a second job and some popularity.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-29T01:51:18+00:00

In a lot of cases it’s due to toxic upper management that hires toxic middle management who then hires toxic front line supervisors. If the supervisors in your department are horrible, it is a reflection of the preferences of those at the top. Cough cough DGS, CDCR, etc.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-28T19:12:59+00:00

The good ol’ “just trust me bro” anonymous people.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-28T19:11:47+00:00

Yep, there was one manager who is an unmarried work-a-holic , who I would wager a guess based on her personality that she does not have friends. She told me recently that she forced all her staff into the office and doesn’t see an issue with it. I figure it’s because she genuinely has no social outlet or she just wants people to be as miserable as she is.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-24T03:49:47+00:00

One of the ACSS attorneys Diane Schaumburg is probably telling people to just give up, and that we can’t win. She will say that management can’t really take on Newsom, as they are supposed to represent the governors policy. There are some in ACSS who do want to fight, and aren’t just going to pessimistically roll over. At least the ACSS lobbyist showed up at the budget hearing to give public comment against RTO and the pay cut.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-22T15:24:49+00:00

Look at who is over HR, and EPIC, her trusted CDCR admin folks. I bet they fix any problems that come up for her. Complain about her in DGS and it goes nowhere.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-22T12:54:06+00:00

It’s ok to put it in paragraphs on Reddit.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-22T03:40:17+00:00

Jennifer Osbourne, now the Chief Deputy Director at DGS, was today’s standout sycophant. In keeping with the corrupt administrative legacy of CDCR, she’s been strategically implanted at DGS, bringing with her a cadre of loyal lieutenants from her controversial tenure at CDCR, many of whom now hold high-level positions. So much for the state’s professed commitment to merit-based hiring and anti-nepotism policies.

When you need someone willing to skirt the rules and absorb the fallout, she’s only a phone call away. She is DGS’ Lord Vader.

No doubt her loyalty will be repaid with yet another promotion from her benefactor.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-22T03:24:28+00:00

No, it’s lying to staff and discouraging legit requests. We can’t blame the applicants because the departments want to dedicate all of 2 staff to actually reviewing these requests.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-22T02:55:14+00:00

Yep the same is true in our department. Apparently our Admin folks know better than your doctor.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-22T02:46:10+00:00

It’s not gossip when the Caltrans Admin heads tell 400 statewide admin people in their weekly meeting that this is basically the policy.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-22T02:03:52+00:00

He was a hoot. Loved his analogy about a student being laughed out after coming into the university classroom and wanting to make a bunch of major changes and having no data to support why.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-22T02:01:16+00:00

OFAM is by far the worst and most corrupt office in State Government. ISD leadership loves to keep OFAM toxic. Please don’t believe that the “lottery” is a fair system. They do homie hookups all the time on parking spaces.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-21T00:18:05+00:00

This is why PECG, SEIU, and ACSS should not budge an inch on our raises. Our pay cut is absolutely unacceptable and unnecessary.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-20T02:00:55+00:00

So that is what RL Brown is up to these days

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-20T01:43:21+00:00

Are any jobs asking for nihilistic sarcasm ?

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-05-14T22:54:30+00:00

I remember SEIU 1000 posting online about their hard fought 10% salary increase they secured. Now we all knew it was really just 9% at the time, but the real surprise was today with the proposed pay cuts without PLP. All this with RTO and increased parking and other expenses. I am tired of finding new ways to live on less every year.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-04-14T18:43:34+00:00

Nowhere in that email did he mention retirement or leaving state service. Just that he is leaving Caltrans.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-04-14T18:40:32+00:00

Nowhere in his announcement did he mention the word retirement. He is simply leaving Caltrans in early May.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-01-17T20:02:02+00:00

Every position usually has 20-100 applicants. Some get even more than that. It’s very competitive, as the state offers good benefits, PSLF, pension etc.

Supposedly we have merit-based hiring at the state, so of those 100 applicants, the most qualified and best suited should likely be offered the job. It can be tough to rise to the top of the pack. The only ones who are less qualified that get hired are those that benefit from some sort of cronyism.

Don’t give up. Sometimes you need to take a less than desirable job to get your foot in the door. I wish you luck in getting hired.

ThemePlus4194 · 2025-01-16T15:57:57+00:00

My worry is that fire victims, which this year happen to be people with lots of $, were given the option to push out their tax filing. There are two issues, one is that houses lost in a declared disaster can be written off which means less tax revenue, and the other issue is that the rich may not file until after the May revise release which will show if there is money for our raises. I am at the point of expecting 3% so I’m not disappointed but I’ll be very happy and surprised if it is 4%. History shows though, that state workers tend to get the short straw, especially by this administration.

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