Posted on 12/29/2007 9:47:30 PM PST by Marc Tumin
A koala is kidnapped. Sheep are molested by a human intruder. An elephant does a headstand on a technician, breaking her pelvis. A tiger ravages its keeper's arm. A year later, on Christmas Day, the same feline escapes, kills and gets killed.
This is what life can be like at the San Francisco Zoo, a 78-year-old institution saddled with a history of mismanagement and scores of injuries to animals, employees and visitors....
[T]he troubles of the current zoo administration ... began in February 2004 when Manuel Mollinedo became director....
[P]roblems have multiplied and employee morale has plummeted....
"It would appear that his management style - which downplays the value of staff and the welfare of animals - remains in place," said a former worker from the Los Angeles Zoo....
Since Mollinedo took over, there has been a steady exodus of employees, including the deputy director, education director, two successive public relations managers, development director, curator of birds, marketing manager, events director, human resources manager, general manager of concessions and a number of veteran keepers.
Michele Rudovsky, associate curator of hoofstock and pachyderms, starting working at the zoo as a teenager but quit in August after more than a quarter-century. Head veterinarian Freeland Dunker also resigned....
Most of those who left, sources say, were fed up or pushed out.
Employees characterize the current regime as arrogant, autocratic and dismissive of those with experience and institutional knowledge. Keepers, who know the animals and their habitats inside and out, say they have little input and are not listened to by Mollinedo and Bob Jenkins, the zoo's director of animal care and conservation. Workers of every variety fear they're being spied upon and will not speak publicly....
One ex-employee said worn-down zoo workers would sometimes say: "It won't change until somebody dies."...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Fixed!
“Sheep are molested by a human intruder”
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Well, this is San Francisco, after all.
Baaaaaaad!
This is the way one would characterize SF moonbats in general.
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