Some DMV workers extend their furlough

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/25/10 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross

[SmithL]

We've all heard of Furlough Fridays - well, at the San Francisco office of the Department of Motor Vehicles, they had a "Missing Monday" when nearly two-thirds of the staffers didn't show up.

In all, 20 of the 34 staffers at the Fell Street DMV office who had been forced to take Friday off without pay took Monday off as well.

DMV spokesman Armando Botello said the department had to bring in workers from other jurisdictions to help out with the "higher than usual absences."

Naj Alikhan of the Service Employees International Union, which represents the workers, said he hadn't heard of any sick-out call.

Even if he had, Alikhan said, he wouldn't be able to comment "because nothing like that would be union-sanctioned."

Whatever the case, the customer line snaked around the building. One unfortunate woman, Maria Tiell, said she stood in line twice, for a total of five hours, before finally being able to take her driver's license renewal exam.

[SmithL]

From the same article:

Oakland race: As they round the first turn, Don Perata appears to be several lengths ahead in the race to be Oakland's next mayor.

Why not? After Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown and Ron "Red" Dellums, Oakland voters have proven themselves to be incompetent to choose their leaders.

[Atlas Sneezed]

If you don’t come in on Monday, don’t come in on Tuesday.

[BenLurkin]

Caused by a failure of supervision. Just my opinion.

[bossmechanic]

Pull their badges - unauthorized absense

I’m sure there are many that would gladly show up to work for 1/2 what these lazy b’tards are getting paid now.

[ken21]

my wife and i went to the dmv for our renewals

and we had to return twice

because the dmv employees messed up the paperwork.

[NorCoGOP]

I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of Californians who would LOVE to take over these jobs, since these immature, overpaid dolts don't realize just how good they have it simply being employed.

Fire 'em all.

[pappyone]

“One unfortunate woman, Maria Tiell, said she stood in line twice, for a total of five hours, before finally being able to take her driver’s license renewal exam.”

Good to see that the furlough did not affect customer service. he he

[Vigilanteman]

Penn DOT does a lousy job of keeping our roads up, but a great time of running the DMV. My average in and out time is around 20 minutes, as long as I avoid the mid to late summer rush when all the local high school kids are getting licenses. Then, it can be as much as one hour.

For some strange reason, most of the Penn DOT workers who are in the driver's license offices are not unionized, whereas most of those who work on the roads are. Coincidence?

[Spike Knotts]

Sweet, 4 day weekend.

[BenKenobi]

Fire em all. Give the jobs to someone who will show up.

[NormsRevenge]

I hope his family is doing well.. considering all the business he used to shake down from gubamint for them..

Good ol’ Don, he can bring his skills at cooking up energy re/deregulation schemes and proposing 5 cent a bullet and a diaper taxes to a city adrift in mayhem.

Oh yeah, he’s in the finest tradition of Oakland. They took in the refugees from SF during the ‘06 disaster and now they take in tired old political hacks .. meanwhile their youth are gunning each other down or getting hit by stray bullets.

He’s perfect. He can tax every damn trigger click. That’ll rake in some dough.

[FormerACLUmember]

SEIU lazy thugs.

Fire all these sub-humans.

[FormerACLUmember]

Lazy, totally incompetent thugs and their lazy, totally incompetent Dear Leader.

[BenLurkin]

[The Iceman Cometh]

According to Joe Biden, that chart shows improvement. Thanks for the uplifting post. /sarc