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If life was a musical (instrumentals coming from thin air, people singing and dancing all over the place), Paco Villa knows EXACTLY how to "score" the "shows" currently playing on our version of Broadway: Front Street.* One thing is for certain, if this WAS a musical, the YACA/BPT ensemble is a natural. Need proof? Click the Title above. Go on, Paco will wait (be sure to click the BACK button so you can finish the blog).
*Paco envisions an R&R strip-line, CO's tap dancing from behind one bent-over con to another, the cons coughing in rhythm as the CO's, in Sweet Harmony sing "We're looking up ASSHOLES..." while using their caps and PR24's to simulate top-hats and canes. It's a HIT, baby! A reprise of the tune, during the second act, has the protagonist singing the same song as he scans the Executive Directory at 1515 S Street.
No offense intended toward Mr. Hickman, Ms. Woodford or Ms. Perez but, truth is, none of them are qualified for the positions they accepted. They know, as does Paco, that they are the beneficiaries of the laurels system, compounded by an unnecessarily hasty executive transition and dominated by civil service cronyism. Need more proof? Check out the following links for these stellar resumes. Apurate! Paco will wait...
(The links are STILL bad, type link info into new browser window's url (CUT-AND-PASTE will copy faulty html code...still working on it-PV)
http://www.bpt.ca.gov/chairperson.asp
http://www.corr.ca.gov/Exec/exec_bio_Woodford.asp
http://www.yaca.ca.gov/hickman.asp
As a rule, resumes at this level are substantive. After all, we are talking about the Secretary of the largest correctional system in the free world, Director of the largest system in the free world and Chair of the largest parole authority in the free world. This ain't about giving your cousin a job down at the sawmill, folks. These are powerful, important positions involving agencies in serious turmoil. We need P. T. Barnums who know how to DRESS UP the show and RUN IT--Not Pee Wee Hermans who UNDRESS at the show and RUB IT!
Paco just can't figure it out. What was the big HURRY? I know, the governor is starting a co-ed softball team and these three will really give the team DEPTH. Seriously, there are hundreds of qualified, honest, visionary LEADERS who have Skidmarks with more time in the profession than these 3 Amigos. How many people did the GUBNER's staff consider before handing him the finished script? Was the "Santa Clara County Connection" the only influence or were others behind the "A" list?
From Mr. Hickman who, according to his own resume, does not possess the education required of an entry level PAI or CCI...
to Ms. Perez who lacks both managerial experience (outside the National Guard) and significant 'custody' experience (a few years at a level II joint and several more years as the Director's uniformed CO/AA). Add well less than a dime of combined time as a field PA & BPT investigator and you've got the de facto Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pardons and Parole....
to Ms. Woodford whose entire resume may be boiled down to one word: SAN QUENTIN. Yup, there's a place where one may gain the breadth and depth of the entire Department of Corrections just by osmosis. SQ is so representative of the department proper, a decade or so as lead groundskeeper there probably qualifies you to accept most any exempt appointment in the state. No offense to our SQ family, Paco has MANY amigos there. Experience limited to ANY single joint is narrow: (PERIOD).
GUBNER, you got ducked. That noise you hear is the echo of your own quacking. We have yet to shovel out all the turds left behind by other directors and now you have handed the turd-o-matic to 2nd and 3rd generation turds.
We don't need no badges, GUBNER, we need shovels. BIG shovels.
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Thus spake Paco!
Saturday, June 12, 2004
The 3 Amigos? Musical Chair...Singin' Secretary...Dancin' Director Diva...
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3 comments:
My favorite Amigo Paco!! You have forgotten the principle so widely used in CDC... the Peter Priciple!! The Peter Principle states "Promotion is to the highest level of incompetency" wherein the promotee does a good job at a lower level and is thus further promoted 'til they reach a position they are simply incapable of performing!! Of course this is exasperated by the "Old-boys" principle also!
OldFART
We are on the same page, OF! Reference is made to PV's post of last week (Affirmative Action revisited):
{QUOTE} Achievement in CDC is measured by how far one has exceeded the Peter Principle: "In an organization, the individual will rise to the level of his/her own incompetence." Judging by the leadership Governor Steroid has appointed, the Peter Principle should be amended: "in a governmental organization, the individual will rise to his/her level of incompetence, sprout wings, fly up into the heavens, go super-nova, become denser than matter itself and transform into a black-hole, sucking the soul out of the organization and the collective individuals within." And so it is.(END QUOTE}
Not only do we concur, we are also BOTH old farts!
-Paco
El pedo viejo
Just about anyone going to college today will tell that life long learning is just as good as a degree. I basically mean, experience and training in one field over a long period of time can make an individual very qualified and competent for a job. In Hickman’s case, he spent almost no time on the line as a LT. or CPT. and it is showing. To me this is just another thing the GOV. needs to look at before hiring someone for any CDC position. Maybe CDC should have a qualifying period for management ranks. At each rank, a minimum of two years GP yard experience dealing with inmate issues should be the basis. Anyone can wear the rank, the question is competence. This is my opinion. How in the hell can anyone work a leadership position in CDC if they have never worked the Main Line for some extended period of time?
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