Tulsa City/County library CEO out

[RecycleMichael]

From an internal e-mail...Linda Saferite will be unable to return to work on August 17, 2009 as first planned due to chronic health reasons.  Linda will not be returning to duties at TCCL and will be on leave until her retirement is effective in March 2010.

The Personnel Committee has scheduled a committee meeting on Monday, August 10th at 3 PM to consider search options for the next CEO.

There had sure been lots of controversy with the library lately...

[DowntownNow]

Okay, so let me get this straight...weeks ago, Saferite was happy as can be working from home two days of the week on the Library Commission's say so...then they reverse course and all of a sudden, she is chronically ill and can't return at all to work..until her retirement scheduled for March 2010?!  HAHA...Can her behind and find someone willing to do the job!  Forget handing over the retirement and benefits. 

Just how much leave does this woman have and under what medical condition suffered at work does she get it?

What a show of face when greed becomes your only motivation.

[brianh]

That's not unheard of, a federal employee can accumulate up to 800 hours of sick leave and then use all that to retire many months early.

[Wilbur]

That's not unheard of, a federal employee can accumulate up to 800 hours of sick leave and then use all that to retire many months early.

City employees can accumulate up to 1200 hours of sick time, earned at 8 hours per month (150 months), but they can not burn that sick time at retirement.  They can burn their vacation and comp time.

[Hoss]

City employees can accumulate up to 1200 hours of sick time, earned at 8 hours per month (150 months), but they can not burn that sick time at retirement.  They can burn their vacation and comp time.

Wow, 8 hours?  My piddly 1.5 hours per bi-weekly paycheck seems not very much in comparison.

My company also does the weird thing of rolling over unused sick time at the end of the year into your vacation, which leaves some people high and dry if they're sick early in the year.

That is, until we complained about the 'you can only use vacation time for planned leaves' policy our company had.  And forced them to revise it.

[sgrizzle]

Okay, so let me get this straight...weeks ago, Saferite was happy as can be working from home two days of the week on the Library Commission's say so...then they reverse course and all of a sudden, she is chronically ill and can't return at all to work..until her retirement scheduled for March 2010?!  HAHA...Can her behind and find someone willing to do the job!  Forget handing over the retirement and benefits. 

Just how much leave does this woman have and under what medical condition suffered at work does she get it?

What a show of face when greed becomes your only motivation.

Sounds to me like someone who is ill tried to work out an agreement where she could continue in her job, but ultimately was too sick to do so. No-one said she was on paid leave. Ever hear of FMLA?

Wow, if you jump up and down on sick people like this you must be a hoot at funerals.

[cannon_fodder]

I hate the abuse of a system as much as anyone.  I am jealous and somewhat disdainful of super leave times, massive amounts of vacation, and the like.  But if someone is actually sick and within 6 months retirement, canning them for being ill is an incredibly crappy thing.

Now, if she has a history of being "ill" at inopportune times or otherwise you have information that she isn't really sick, then put it out there. 

[Conan71]

Cannon, good thoughts.  Let's also not forget that if she was canned, she's got a good case for discrimination against a disability.  The city might well be looking at it as if she would get paid anyhow, at least this way, she's getting paid without tacking on legal fees.

Also, none of us are truly privvy to the whole situation as far as what the illness is, earned sick time, etc. so it's really nothing more than callous speculation on our part.

[shadows]

I would assume that the city would use the same policy that prevails in private industries concerning the perks that become out of reason.  It is reported the person in question was hurt in a boating accident but they have been unable to establish what year. Instead of tinfoil hats the power should wear dunce hats instead of the working poor try to support the golden parachutes that will devour the city as its taxpaying citizens move to friendlier areas.   There is a long list of ghost towns listed on the internet. 

[sgrizzle]

I understood the first half of Shadows' first sentence. After years of study, I hope to someday become fluent.

[cannon_fodder]

I would assume that the city would use the same policy that prevails in private industries concerning the perks that become out of reason.  It is reported the person in question was hurt in a boating accident but they have been unable to establish what year.

I can take those first two at face value.  Then we get into some real interpretation work:

Instead of tinfoil hats the power should wear dunce hats instead of the working poor try to support the golden parachutes that will devour the city as its taxpaying citizens move to friendlier areas.   There is a long list of ghost towns listed on the internet. 

• I need to find "the power" and have it hook me up
• You don't see anough references to dunce hates
• Glad we worked in that "working poor" reference/cliche
• Is getting your retirement after 20 some years a Golden parachute?
• Anyone moving because the library CEO is getting retirement?
• There is also a long list of edible mushroom types on the internet.  But that isn't relevant either.

I hope someday he learns our language.

[sgrizzle]

I hope someday he learns our language.

It's kinda like if Yoda had ADD.

[Conan71]

I can take those first two at face value.  Then we get into some real interpretation work:

• I need to find "the power" and have it hook me up
• You don't see anough references to dunce hates
• Glad we worked in that "working poor" reference/cliche
• Is getting your retirement after 20 some years a Golden parachute?
• Anyone moving because the library CEO is getting retirement?
• There is also a long list of edible mushroom types on the internet.  But that isn't relevant either.

I hope someday he learns our language.

"What's that large 'sucking' sound?"

"Why, that's the sound of people fleeing Tulsa by the thousands because the library CEO retired!"

[shadows]

[/list]

I hope someday he learns our language.

I suppose I will never learn your language.  It seems to limited to tunnel vision where as it is limited like the shields on the horses halters that disallows sight of anything by restriction all sights to a the designation of ones mind.

[Townsend]

I suppose I will never learn your language.  It seems to limited to tunnel vision where as it is limited like the shields on the hoses halters that disallows sight of anything by restriction all sights to a the designation of ones mind.

Totally