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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Sept 21, 2015 14:34:35 GMT -5
I currently have a case with my state's civil rights commission, because a former employee fired me for complications with a disability that I have. I have had the worst expeience with my case worker. She doesn't return calls or emails. I can never get ahold of her. What little information I've been able to get from her has been the result of me calling for days, and eventually just catching her at her desk. I called to complain about her, because she basically doesn't seem like she's trying too hard, and I get a voicemail from her supervisor. I call her back, and she gives me a big ol' attitude for calling her, like I'm inconveniencing her by calling, and acted like the conversation I had with my case worker that I had two months ago was yesterday. I eventually just said, "look, I don't care if there's no new information on my case. If I call and leave a message, I want someone to call me back and at least tell me there's nothing new." But for crying out loud, none of these people would last a day in the private sector. Is the public sector just a magnet for a-holes?
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Post by Push R Truth on Sept 21, 2015 14:38:49 GMT -5
Every job has assholes.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Sept 21, 2015 14:43:40 GMT -5
That's about par for the course for those types of agencies. The federal equal rights commission, EEOC, can take years. They're more of a clearing house for complaints, not an investigative body.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 21, 2015 15:29:44 GMT -5
Every line of work has jerks and the jerks stand out.
Public agencies have their share of jerks who usually fall into the category of either insanely overworked and underpaid, or overpaid and entitled/protected.
Source: I'm an overworked and underpaid public sector attorney, but hopefully not a jerk.
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Post by Cela on Sept 21, 2015 17:41:39 GMT -5
I grew up in the middle of nowhere. 300 people over 500 square miles sort of thing. The biggest feud my family had was against a family of public employees who were Lawful Evil. They followed the law to the exact letter if it suited their agenda.
For example, another neighbor took our side during something. They reported him as operating a commercial business in a residential zone for selling his excess apples for 10 bucks a bag.
When they were being especially egregious, like when their pack of dogs killed one of our horses, we'd try to file complaints, but they were friends with everyone in town that could do anything about it and made up some rather bizarre stories.
Give anyone a little governmental power, it's likely it will go to their head.
In the end, their shit caught up with them. Kids got arrested for robbing the school. But that was a rough few years.
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