Controller Wendy Greuel posts salaries of all LA city workers(You've got to see this)

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_15694737?nclick_check=1 ^ | 8/9/2010 | contracostatimes.com

[dragnet2]

Also you can scroll down at this link...

http://www.johnandkenshow.com/

ASST GM Department of Aging $148,749.12

GENERAL MGR NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT $154,512.00

[presently no screen name]

You’re right!! I forgot about that one.

[Melian]

Wow. A general manager of neighborhood empowerment at $154,512.00. A department of aging. No wonder CA is broke— and broken. This is pathetic. And I say this as a native Californian who still lives in Southern CA.

My husband and I have been talking for months about how this is no longer a pleasant place to live. Many of our friends have already left; as have our children. It’s so sad.

[dragnet2]

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[N. Theknow]

"WINDOW CLEANER/AIRPORT —— $56,936.11"

I was at LAX on Saturday, and the windows were filthy!

Obviously needs a pay raise then.

[matthew fuller]

COMMUNITY ORGANIZER I $400,000 salary, $50,000 expense acct, numerous executive aircraft, free housing, numerous free slaves, unlimited vacation time. Part time job.

[The Comedian]

Minister of Silly Walks: Pricele$$

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Ronbo1948]

CLERK TYPIST $ $49,160.66 and worth every penny since LA City Hall only has 1948 model Remington typewriters because they couldn’t afford computer equipment because they were paying scores of CLERK TYPIST $ $49,160.66 a year.

[derekr44]

Something to think about... is the cost of living that high because the expected income is high? So in order to afford things, you need to increase income...

Which came first? The chicken or the egg? The pay raises or the cost of living increase?

Nowadays in California, both parents are expected to work, so the costs inflate because it’s EXPECTED.

[Ronbo1948]

Utah is full of California refugees..I should know - I used to live in San Diego until last year.

[dragnet2]

WINDOW CLEANER/AIRPORT —— $56,936.11

Actually, we just heard the window cleaners just got a raise to $59,736.11.

[RipSawyer]

I wonder what the salary and benefit package amounts to for the Minister of Silly Walks.

[BenKenobi]

could be for court proceedings. That’s the only one that’s actually not out of line.

[RipSawyer]

I worked for a time at a local factory which closed down two years ago. I commented two or three years earlier that it wouldn’t last much longer and that most of the people who had been receiving the larger paychecks would not have a snowball’s chance of finding a job at even half what they were being paid. Most of them didn’t.

[Kenny Bunk]

The Public Sector is not so really different from the Private Sector.

For example, The Thom McCann Shoe Company and the City of Los Angeles are both overstocked on expensive brown and black loafers.

[annalex]

If you want to support a family with children on 100 grand, you cannot afford Los Angeles. Don’t have a firsthand experience, but so I heard from many Angelenos who did not seem to have a motive to lie. In fact, where I lived till recently near Sacramento is not far behind.

[esoxmagnum]

Yes, on the whole, the payroll has more impact on our budgets.

I’m talking about making money for yourself.

If you want to really make money, you don’t go for a job at the DMV, you get into consulting.

But if you think making a cool few million a year is chicken crap, well, then, I want to be in your business.

Consulting? Not a laughing matter.

[dragnet2]

You might want to start a thread on profit margins of consulting.

[esoxmagnum]

I used to play football many moons ago, and our head coach had a pet peeve about his players fighting amongst themselves. He would tell us to ‘save it for the enemy” or some such thing.

I am always amazed to find here, on FR, folks who are on the same team, aggressively pursuing a path in which to cause discourse amongst fellow team mates.

I have no bone to pick with you, and I’m not quite sure why you have decided pick a bone with me. I don’t really care, but with that in mind, it serves no purpose for conservatives to argue amongst each other over trivial issues, or to nitpick just for the sake of seeing ones own works in print.

Old adage says “it takes two to Tango”. I’m bowing out, you can Tango with yourself.

I sincerely hope you have a nice day, and keep up the good fight out there in California. :)

[SFConservative]

Most, though not all, of these positions could be outsourced, competitively, with a max 2-year contract until there is a solid record of performance. That could save easily one third of the cost of government.

If you could tell these humongous organizations that they had to cut 20% of their staff and could do it arbitrarily (not easy in the "real" world) they would have no problem identifying the 20% of the staff that is pretty much useless, marking time on the phone with friends, playing solitaire on their computer, and spending the rest of their time explaining how they can't take on any tasks because they are "too busy". If the state government is any measure, 20% is about right.

The problem is that the unions have thwarted any kind of personnel performance reviews, so most of the state and local governments do no longer assess their staff's performance. That makes it very difficult to lay off people based on relative effectiveness and not get sued.

So it comes down to institutionalizing a policy based on pay and employment based on performance. It comes down to giant bonuses, that are worth it, to only those top municipal managers who get that done. It comes down to no pay if you don't get that done. We need Chainsaw Als in our municipal and county governments.

[dragnet2]

“WINDOW CLEANER/AIRPORT —— $56,936.11”

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