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Mar. 31st, 2015 07:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzProud to be a tax and spend politician:
Last night I led a coup to a) repoint 2 buildings instead of 1 to save money on the larger project over 2 smaller ones; and
b) increase condo fees 2% instead of .55% so that over time the increases are a steady 2-4% instead of nothing one year and 5-10% the next.
That was me spending a quarter million dollars of other people's money in 30 minutes. Of course, it's money that needs to be spent anyway, and the option - LIKE IN THE US - is having to pay more when the infrastructure starts crumbling. So unlike national politics, a small group of people can identify needs, collect funds, and do the work required to maintain the property without much fuss.
Truth - we're at risk of not having a board at all because nobody will volunteer their hour a month to help out for no pay. I'm an outlier, as is everyone else on the board.
Loving work - I'm frustrated as I'm finding the case law is really illogical in the area of attorney fees for FLRA actions, but I'm fired up on a project and thinking of writing something clearly to go straight to dissenting member Pizzella - my new goal is to get a mention in the dissent. I'm also leading a work-coup to file exceptions on all cases we lose or get arbitrator arbitrarily baby-split cases, and worse, enter a clause to that effect in the beginning of all arbitrations to put these lazy asshats on notice that the Union sues for attorney fees of $20-30k on all cases they decide, even if the case is worth $120 total if we lose on the merits. The law is that a losing party, if it had the information at the time if made its decision, is liable for attorney fees if any remedy is issued...which makes sense if you lose because you were wrong. However, when an arbitrator a) reduces a 5 day suspension to 2/3 days or a reprimand, b) says when machines broke down for 4 hours so staff got paid to hang out in the lunch room half the day but disagrees the managers should have let lunch be moved 30 minutes, or c) declares that the contract required delivery via FedEx so using UPS is a contract violation...you wind up with petty issues and baby splitting costing 20-30k per issue...ALL at taxpayer expense from your fed government.
I'm a tax and spend democrat who is kind of over fed unions. I know the reasons we have them in theoretically agree with those reasons, but the actual practice is shameful. Like the condo board I serve on, it's very hard to get decent people to work for free. This greater good concept only seems to inspire loons, crooks, and religious loons (they're a special breed).
This post has no direction or conclusion despite being arguably about one subject.
Last night I led a coup to a) repoint 2 buildings instead of 1 to save money on the larger project over 2 smaller ones; and
b) increase condo fees 2% instead of .55% so that over time the increases are a steady 2-4% instead of nothing one year and 5-10% the next.
That was me spending a quarter million dollars of other people's money in 30 minutes. Of course, it's money that needs to be spent anyway, and the option - LIKE IN THE US - is having to pay more when the infrastructure starts crumbling. So unlike national politics, a small group of people can identify needs, collect funds, and do the work required to maintain the property without much fuss.
Truth - we're at risk of not having a board at all because nobody will volunteer their hour a month to help out for no pay. I'm an outlier, as is everyone else on the board.
Loving work - I'm frustrated as I'm finding the case law is really illogical in the area of attorney fees for FLRA actions, but I'm fired up on a project and thinking of writing something clearly to go straight to dissenting member Pizzella - my new goal is to get a mention in the dissent. I'm also leading a work-coup to file exceptions on all cases we lose or get arbitrator arbitrarily baby-split cases, and worse, enter a clause to that effect in the beginning of all arbitrations to put these lazy asshats on notice that the Union sues for attorney fees of $20-30k on all cases they decide, even if the case is worth $120 total if we lose on the merits. The law is that a losing party, if it had the information at the time if made its decision, is liable for attorney fees if any remedy is issued...which makes sense if you lose because you were wrong. However, when an arbitrator a) reduces a 5 day suspension to 2/3 days or a reprimand, b) says when machines broke down for 4 hours so staff got paid to hang out in the lunch room half the day but disagrees the managers should have let lunch be moved 30 minutes, or c) declares that the contract required delivery via FedEx so using UPS is a contract violation...you wind up with petty issues and baby splitting costing 20-30k per issue...ALL at taxpayer expense from your fed government.
I'm a tax and spend democrat who is kind of over fed unions. I know the reasons we have them in theoretically agree with those reasons, but the actual practice is shameful. Like the condo board I serve on, it's very hard to get decent people to work for free. This greater good concept only seems to inspire loons, crooks, and religious loons (they're a special breed).
This post has no direction or conclusion despite being arguably about one subject.
