Posted on 07/14/2020 8:59:04 AM PDT by ransomnote
The ending of this movie is gonna be great.
God wins!
“Bloated” may be the word you had in mind, but she certainly does bloviate as well. In fact, I’m threatening to leave Twitter until they do something about it... ;-)
Safe travels.
I just love that it is the 17th day of July.
17’s are special to me now.
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1284120503444287491
“Trump Administration official tells me that CDC was taking 7 WEEKS to compile & release key coronavirus stats.
Under pressure, CDC started reporting that data with 3 week lag.
So HHS took over data reporting from CDC.
HHS is able to compile & report this data daily.”
Re-read form the bottom up.
I can give a little of the insights into TVA, since I know someone very close to me that works there.
A couple of things in play here - One, the “CEO” of TVA and a handful of very high-up officers are extremely well-compensated, higher than any typical government officer. The reason that was given is that they “have to remain competitive with salaries in the rest of the utility industry”. How that lines up in the rest of the world, I do not know. I haven’t looked at the salaries of other large utilities (investor-owned) such as AEP, Southern Co., or Entergy.
Pay scales within the rest of TVA are competitive with utility pay for similar jobs - lineman pay in line with linemen elsewhere, outside of highly-inflated areas like New York or the west coast where pay is significantly higher (as is the cost of living).
A larger group of top-end officials enjoy a separate (but unequal) pension system, whereas they chopped the contribution to employee’s pension in half a few years ago, and new employees have no pension at all. Old timers enjoy a very lucrative “30-35 and out” plan that remains untouched, but was eliminated back in the 80s but grandfathered for everyone that was in the plan at the time.
Anyway, that notwithstanding, the other element in play regarding “US tech workers” is that TVA recently laid off some 100 IT employees, and replaced them with outside contractors. These 100 former employees are obviously not happy, but it goes a little deeper than that. Some of the functions of IT are classified as “sensitive”, and require employees to obtain background checks and such. I don’t know the extent of the layoffs or what parts of IT were affected. Not sure I want external entities doing this work, but I don’t know the back story on why these employees were let go either.
Re America’s corporate leaders might not think of themselves as lobbyists. You might think, for example, that cultivating a mutually beneficial relationship is just part of the “guanxi” — or system of influential social networks — necessary to do business with the PRC. But you should be alert to how you might be used, and how your efforts on behalf of a foreign company or government could implicate the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Businesses that rely on China take note!
Only through beer goggles, and most sober up to reality the next day...
Buckingham Palace confirms Princess Beatrice’s wedding today: “The private wedding ceremony of Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi took place at 11am on Friday 17th July at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor.” 20 people attended.
Nice work, Andy. Fatherhood Fail.
BREAKING: RBG discusses her new chemo treatment and will remain fully engaged on her job - FOXNEWS
And the truth finally drops: the teachers are the ones driving the continued closure of schools:
SHE MIGHT BE MY THIRD FAVORITE PERSON IN THIS ADMINISTRATION!
1. DJT
2. Pompeo
Dis- check out Squidpup’s link if you didn’t see it yet.
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1284104344225423361
I don’t know the extent of the layoffs or what parts of IT were affected. Not sure I want external entities doing this work, but I don’t know the back story on why these employees were let go either.
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maybe the IT guys were compromised/incompetent/notqualified.
Hopefully the new IT guys are independent contractors from the US! ??
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