What a novel way to improve morale!
- I guess miracles never cease..
At the Area 5 CAR meeting, Friday I heard something from Peterson that was shocking..."Commanders, Deputies, and other exempts, tell your supervisors to back them 100% when they are right, actually back them when 100% when they are wrong. We need to step up support for our people"!!!!! I was pretty shocked, having never met the man, his comments were hopefully a step in the right direction.. The funniest thing was the look on Brusts face when he said it, I swear the voice in brusts head was saying, " what you talking about willis?"
Of course a few minutes later, Dugan put things back into reality...Commander of 25, I think Lopez, was on the hot seat. They wanted to know why arrests and contact cards were down for April. Lopez related he had 15 people on furlough, Dugan replied, "for operational needs you can change their furloughs". Lopez replied, sir they have a contract, at which point Dugan interrupted,PER OPERATIONAL NEEDS, you can change their furlough" Dugan closed his little notebook, and the next topic was discussed. Lopez knew that was an un winnable battle...
Tell you what their Doogie, go ahead and let the 5yr guy on tact change from a 4b to 7b and quote operational needs, and you better bet me and my 6yrs will grieve it because i wasnt offered to fill in for tact or change my furlough as the person with less seniority was..."The operational needs have to be acknowledged by the Supt and the mayor in writing that a serious emergency condition exists"...But knowing Dugan he will pull some obscure passage from an order or the contract and show he is right...Instead of using common sense and understanding furloughs are part of the job....
At any given point, 8% of a District is on furlough except for the summer months when the percentage drops to 7%. Fifteen people on furlough in a District like 025 is a pittance. Five a watch on average, but probably mostly guys on days. That's why we have watch relief bids - to even out the manpower.
If the Department is going to declare a "serious emergency condition" exists so that they can cancel furloughs, what happens come September? October? November? Suddenly we're going to have 12-15% of the District manpower off? These furloughs have to be taken during the Operational Calendar year, right?
Is this what we've come to? We're going to cancel scheduled furloughs with the attendant family trips, summer vacation activities, and who knows what plans for some specious "emergency conditions" and trust Mother Nature to keep a lid on the violence when we're down 15% manpower in the fall?
How about you let us bank unused portions of our furloughs as hours? Or agree to buy the days from us at OT rates? Payable along with the BFD/P-Day sellbacks? We'd give serious thought to banking/selling 25% of our V-Days for the right price. It would save everyone this nonsense about switching our 6th or 7th period furloughs for bullshit.
If the Department is going to declare a "serious emergency condition" exists so that they can cancel furloughs, what happens come September? October? November? Suddenly we're going to have 12-15% of the District manpower off? These furloughs have to be taken during the Operational Calendar year, right?
Is this what we've come to? We're going to cancel scheduled furloughs with the attendant family trips, summer vacation activities, and who knows what plans for some specious "emergency conditions" and trust Mother Nature to keep a lid on the violence when we're down 15% manpower in the fall?
How about you let us bank unused portions of our furloughs as hours? Or agree to buy the days from us at OT rates? Payable along with the BFD/P-Day sellbacks? We'd give serious thought to banking/selling 25% of our V-Days for the right price. It would save everyone this nonsense about switching our 6th or 7th period furloughs for bullshit.
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