City Bonus Handed Out in the Midst of a Recession? Only in Phoenix with City Manager Frank Fairbanks!

This Blog comes courtesy of a guest blogger - a current city employee who asked to do a write up. Enjoy!
~BadPhoenixCops





Who is the world’s worst accountant?? Google it and you get a long list of companies like Enron & WorldCom. Well, add the City of Phoenix to that list today. Take a good look at the picture because whoever figured there was enough money in the city to pay out bonuses must have had on darker glasses then this guy!

It seems one of them must work in the City of Phoenix, or perhaps several. Recently, several managers in the City of Phoenix were awarded with “CASH BONUSES”. Cash bonuses??

Douchbagsaywhat?



Assholesayhuh?



Sphinctersaywhat?



Isn’t the city in a financial mess?

Hundreds of job’s are being cut to balance the city budget! The city manager Frank Fairbanks, has asked all city employees to tighten up and face facts. He has asked people to submit to furlough days (taking time off and not being paid to help the city save money), he has asked employees to cut all costs as this is the worst budget crisis in the city’s history. Months and months of preparing all employees for the worst of times to come, cutting jobs, positions lost in all departments. Some of these city employees lost everything. Not just their jobs, but their security, benefits and livelihoods. Then all of a sudden, the city comes up with over $354,800 in cash bonuses to be paid out to middle and upper level managers. Fairbanks said these bonuses were calculated long before any troubled times in the city. BULLSHIT!! Years and years the city has been cutting costs and laying off employees, closing down special programs to save money.



Frank let us give you a quick lesson how the real world works. When you made the statement that, “Jack Ass Harris manages over 5,000 associates and if he were a company, he would be paid in the millions”…Mr. Fairbanks, your logic is flawed.

Jack Harris couldn’t and wouldn’t manage a real corporation. He doesn’t have the smarts and nuts to lead. CEOs of major corporations don’t have their administrative assistance do their homework to earn their degrees. CEOs have degrees from Wharton, Stanford and Harvard - not University of Phoenix, Ottawa and Apollo College. A corporation under Jack would crumble. A real Board would have a vote of “no confidence” and oust an idiot like Jack Harris. If a manager in a corporation gets caught covering up for their buddies; one who hides porno on their computer or a drunk marine who gets free transportation to work each day, that manager would be fired - Pronto! Public corporations are accountable to shareholders. You can go to YahooFinance to see the message board on corporations.



Also Frank, when these message boards and shareholders rant or rave about the corporation, their homes don’t get raided and their computers aren’t taken. Plus, fat slobs in Hawaii shirts that leave moisture stains on chairs, don’t get to have a say in the Pension plan. As matter of record there is no pension plan. One gets options or grants and you get paid on how well the Enterprise does. When you retire, you actually retire and CEOs aren’t hired back with fancy titles like chief manager officer or enterprise leader of the corporation. Jack's current "corporation" AKA the Phoenix PD lacks focus, discipline and a strong smart leadership team.



To single out a few names known on the blogs here, let’s start with Andy Anderson, better known as Road Rage Andy or Middle finger Andy. Andy loves to intimidate woman (including wives, daughters and PLEA PR reps), and he got $2,400 in bonus. This is the guy who was in charge of the investigative division for the last few years with Ass Clowns like Joe Klima, Joe Knott, Potato Head Polombo, Alex Femenia, Boy Wonder Pat Kotecki and all the other ones responsible for the big cover up in the Baseline Killer case. Gee Road Rage Andy, how many DNA requests did you refuse to approve because there was not enough money in the budget to pay for an outside, competent lab to see if someone might be innocent or guilty!!


Joe Klima got $4,100. What the hell did he do to get a cash bonus!?!

With 10% going to tidings, this leaves this again, “passed-over-for-the-asst-chief-gig” Joe, with a Net of $3,590. How many days did Joe take off for not getting the job this time? Was it 4-5 days to sulk or was it 12 like last time? All he has done is cause havoc in VCB. The entire division has breathed a sigh of relief now that he has been transferred. Praise Heavenly Father!







The chief Jack Ass got a bonus of $5,000. Here is a useless fucktard who gets a monthly pension and a salary of nearly $6,000 per week for the same job he retired from. WTF? Not to mention how many hundreds of thousands of dollars he got from the DROP program to leave the department and not ever come back. There is more scandal and corruption in the department than ever before and he gets rewarded with 5K in cash. 5K!! That could pay for probably 2 or 3 months’ salary for a few of the ones who lost their job.



The list goes on….



George Richards. $4,100. This is the guy in charge of PSB. George is the one who failed to act on numerous complaints of Jeff the blogger's complaints into Louie Tovar, dismissing the very complaint which was the catalyst for this Blog. Richards has intentionally fucked over more cops for no reason at all but to make a name for himself, or get his year end bonus. WHAT A JOKE!! I wonder George if you would have done your job just think, this website and all the scandal it has caused, all the headaches, all the leaked memo’s, all the crime lab issues all the baseline killer cover-ups never, ever would have been known. Well thanks for a job well done George!! Because of your failure to act on ethics and what is the right thing to do, a lot has come to light.



Here is an interesting one. Light Rail loaned executive, Wulf Grot, $3,000. WTF? Are we now a bank? And what the hell is Wulf Grot? It sounds like a VD! (Gee sorry Heather, that whole academy class gave you the Wulf Grot) Last the AZ Republic reported was the light rail is losing money! How the hell should anyone in light rail get a bonus when they spent billions and wiped out numerous local businesses to build that a train to nowhere. That train ran the budget into the ground before it was ever powered up and bonuses got paid out to people.



I wonder how many would be willing to pay back their bonus? Remember the AIG bonus program? Several, if not all, gave them back. What would $300,000 do for the city. It would help replace an aging fleet of broken patrol cars for the street cop. It would hire a few more officers or firefighters. How many low paying jobs could be given back to the dedicated city employee who lost their job to help balance the budget. At least 17 people would have a job for another year at $10.00 per hour instead of being unemployed. That would have been the right thing to do!



Shame on the City of Phoenix.

Signed,

A City Employee



Here is the link to the article on KPHO.COM and the entire list of who stole from the City.
http://www.kpho.com/money/19592297/detail.html

The Lab is Broken, Samples aren't Being Processed - And Tracy Is Putting in the Hallway...

At least if you are going to putt at work, do it right!

We hold a handicap of 7 (really!!!) and we can at least teach you how to putt correctly.

Whoops!!!!! Did you hear that?

I think someone else was just murdered because a Lab sample wasn't processed. We could have caught the guy months ago, but practicing our putting in the hallway was far more important!

Do you see this Mayor Phil?

And to think, we only have 27,000 requests to fullfill!

Hit em' well Tracy! We'll see you and Soha at the 19th Hole!

Hopefully, good old Harold Hurtt isn't driving his car home again from the course! Where's Wally when you need him!

Hey Tracey - Should The Pins Be Eternal Flames or Rats?

Tracey:

A long time ago our Grandfather told us, “That if you feel you’ve been insulted, odds are, you probably deserved the insult.” If you read what is posted here and what your peers are stating about you, you only have yourself to blame.

Case and point: Very recently (heck …it was just the other day) you sat in a Uniform Committee Meeting to discuss the PSB pins and how they should be an “Eternal Flame” for Trust and Integrity. During this robust discuss, your buddy Steve Soha kept commenting (we hear at least ½ a dozen times…maybe more) how it ought to be a “Rat.” It was both annoying and condescending at the same time. It wasn’t funny. What does Stan Hoover and George Richards think of that? That Soha thinks PSB’s pin ought to be a “Rat?”

Here’s the point, in case you missed it. Soha should be off The Radar. He can’t get back into the Marines because of his DUI and he is wasting taxpayers’ money getting chauffeured everywhere he goes. He has no where to go and can only now work at the PPD. He won't be able to get a job with Louie Tovar at the Target on Bell/7th with his record. No job on this planet offers a free ride to/from work. If he had ½ a brain, he would be quite, go to AA, crawl into some administrative hole with the Homeland Security Bureau and let the dust settle. Clearly this is not the case.

Next time you see Steve, check the soles of his feet.

Really.

I will bet one foot says “Tracey” and the other “Montgomery” for the way he just walks all over you and disrespects you! One of the best test of leadership is when someone rises through the ranks to manage their peers, and how the - now subordinates - act and react. It is clear that Soha has no respect for you, your position or any superior. Starting fights with a Lieutenant at an Officer's Funeral? Even the Gilbert cops were going to give him a break until this A-Hole flashed his badge and said, "Hey, I'm with Homeland Security." Is this really what you want to associate with?

If you had any smarts, you would have stopped the meeting or made a blatant and overt comment to Soha, publically stating how obtuse and inappropriate his comments were. This would have begun to establish some credo with you and set you apart as a leader.

But you didn’t.

It is clear to everyone that Soha’s mouth is good for two things – saying stupid things and drinking booze. All you are good for is covering for him and wasting more time on Pins and what a uniform looks like. It is clear to everyone else you simply don’t have the chutzpa to lead, manage or inspire. You are your own Rat. A Lab Rat. You are part of the Diversity experiment with Fairbanks, Gordon and Washington. Sort of ironic that you have oversite for a Lab....No?

So when you go home at night and you and your Prosecutor friend lament over the day and the insults on this site, while watching re-runs of Cagney and Lacey, just think about how these comments get teed up, and if they are rightfully deserved.

Life isn't simply about Rainbows! It's about hard work, perseverance, and the journey one takes.

When is a Police Chief, not Your Chief of Police? When his name is Jack Harris!

We need to have some senior; supervisors contact us here at BadPhoenixCops on the Deferred Retirement Program (DROP).

From what we gather, Jack Harris was on this program, retired, and then was hired back as a civilian with the title of Public Safety Manager (we had the same title in Elementary school, each time we had a fire drill…)

– yet he still expects to be called Chief of Police?

We just don’t know how this is legally done. Are Phil Gordon and Frank Fairbanks that inept and lazy? Is the corruption that direct and blatant that we can’t get a real police chief on an outside executive search?

One can only assume that Jack Harris’ buddy Ron Snodgrass (#2141) who has managed and negotiated for the pension board, most definitely went to bat for and negotiated another sweet deal for Jack. And one wonders why Jack won’t have him investigated, disciplined or reprimanded? Do you think Jack knows about his side business?

Our tax dollars spend $4000 a week for Jack to be a wanna-be chief of police. I think we could afford a "real" Police Chief. Don't you?

Geez, if it takes a civilian to do the job, I'll do it for $2000 per week, and do it right by going out and recruiting my own officers. I would immediately institute a "no fraternization policy," put all the asst. chiefs back on patrol ,and give them the guns that Andy Anderson claims they have and need!

If there are any supervisors out there who would like to contact us and give us some of the internal facts about DROP, we would appreciate it. We imagine you might be quite perturbed knowing about Jack's “civilian” boondoggle status.

I found the posting to the Blog about AZ POST, interesting. In case you missed here are the deets again, straight from the AZ POST site it states:

"The Arizona Peace Officer Standards & Training Board was originally comprised of nine members, appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Board included two sheriffs, two chiefs of police, a college faculty member in public administration or a related field, the state attorney general, the director of the Department of Public Safety, and two public members.In 1977, the statutes were revised to require one sheriff come from a county with a population exceeding 200,000 and one sheriff from a county with a population less than 200,000. Additionally, one police chief was to be from a city with a population exceeding 60,000 and one from a city with a population less than 60,000. In 1984, Board membership was expanded with the addition of the director of the Arizona Department of Corrections and an administrator of a county or municipal correctional facility."

So this begs the question, where does a Public Safety Manager like Jack Harris fit into this and is he a violation of the Board?