Comments on: Salaries

By: Bbox23

Bbox23 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:34:12 +0000

Maybe we can get a discount if We hire the same folks that tear down Candlestick and O.co. MWAHAHAHAHA!!!

RIP NUMMI. Go Tesla!! (Who undoubtedly had the same concern but which the Fed “resolved” before the deal was struck – see Lews very much to the point announcement on the coat tails of the Tesla deal)

Your very lame attempts to build a convincing argument based on annecdote NEVER seem to pass any test of reason Charles. Why us that?

By: charlie C

charlie C — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:10:42 +0000

“harm the stores there.” “Leading that opposition were officials from (RIP) New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.” your starting to sound like you ODed on Bacon!
Boxie you know the stadium would have brought about 40,000 people into Fremont every time a game or event was being held there… I’m afraid the there that could have been here has been forever chased out of town by the *demonize a developer* crowd. I hope you and Vinnie really enjoy your tapioca and yougat down at the Block before it is demolished sometime in the next 15 to 20 years!

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:01:37 +0000

“Leading that opposition were officials from New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., who said ballpark traffic would hinder Nummi’s trucking fleet on nearby Interstates 880 and 680.”

http://www.sfgate.com/athletics/article/Fremont-s-new-pitch-A-s-stadium-at-Nummi-site-3204824.php

By: West44

West44 — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:00:35 +0000

And the stupidity goes on !!!!!!!

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:20:34 +0000

“ProLogis the company that owns the land on which the A’s have proposed building a new ballpark and housing and retail complex announced today that they oppose the A’s plan.

The real estate trust, which owns the adjacent Pacific Commons Shopping Center, has determined that putting a stadium so close center would harm the stores there.”

http://www.ibabuzz.com/tricitybeat/2008/12/09/serious-blow-to-oakland-as-ballpark-village-plan-in-fremont/

By: charlie C

charlie C — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:02:41 +0000

“Millions of people will be watching the games” at the new stadium… “People who have never heard of Santa Clara will know” the city.
Meanwhile in Fremont there is no there here. As you know thousands of jobs with really good salaries have been driven out of Fremont by the demonize a developer crowd. Read it and weep… “800 (well paying) construction workers jobs” right down the road in Santa Clara folks! Salaries would have most certainly gone up for many here in Fremont if the stadium deal had not been killed. Many thanks to Vinnie Bacon who claims professional sports franchises are a raw deal saving Fremont from becoming a tourist destination and a special thanks to the demonize a developer crowd who saved us form a certain economic bonanza!

http://www.mercurynews.com/southbayfootball/ci_22454739/santa-clara-new-home-super-bowl-bound-49ers

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:43:42 +0000

At one end of the organizational structure people lose jobs and are sent packing. At the other end of the organizational structure, a “bonus” (you know – that incentive you get for exceeding your goals) is “postponed” . . . . . as in “delayed” . . . as in, “someday – you’ll get it”.

But, for now, maybe, the headlines wouldn’t be received by the court of public opinion in a particularly positive light. You know, just as we are lopping off the proverbial heads of 200 employees.

Under what circumsances would a CEO be considered even ELIGIBLE for an “incentive bonus” when the organization is *forced* into downsizing????

Good thing we just passed that Measure Z initiative – - I was worried we were running out of space and capacity and stuff . . . .

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_22451746/nurses-medical-director-among-jobs-cut-at-washington?source=most_emailed

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:53:16 +0000

How is huge salary possibly justified?

I read the article on Washington Township Health Care District’s CEO’s salary with absolute horror. Who at Washington Hospital authorized the board of directors to pay CEO Nancy Farber a salary plus benefits of $900,000 (base play plus incentives)?

I find this absolutely horrible. And I am sure that the directors at the hospital couldn’t care less what I think.

We have high unemployment and higher underemployment. I am sure that a lot of those folks who are out of work are nurses and aides for hospitals.

Could someone please explain to me, a member of the community, what Farber does to warrant that kind of salary? We have school principals who make one-tenth of that amount. How about city managers, superintendents, and even our commander in chief? They do not make even close to that amount.

Can someone please explain to me and the reading public what she does to earn that salary — which is more than double that of the president of the United States?

Bill Leake

Fremont

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_22216137/dec-19-letters-editor?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:47:55 +0000

That’s cool Jon. I still feel justified in putting teachers under the general labor tent. You generalize and straw man Republicans all the time, so I don’t feel bad about my comment.

By: Jon Simon

Jon Simon — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:16:16 +0000

Marty,

Unions fight for fair treatment. Teachers have to gear up for strikes every year or two, battling over every inch, an exhausting, painful process that impacts students through tired, angry teachers, while preventing fighting for more resources. You can thank arrogant elected officials and self-entitled anti-tax fanatics for making it so, which really means blaming the general public, all tying into misogyny over the “woman’s profession.” Teachers also deserve blame for not fighting hard enough, but that’s a whole other post.