Comments on: More on Salaries

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:27:18 +0000

Jon, methinks you never spent any time on the USENET circa mid ’90′s.

It was a VERY different venue then anything you may have stumbled into recently.

By: Jon Simon

Jon Simon — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:24:57 +0000

Bbox,

Usenet still exists. Forums provide a better interface. Methinks your memory has rose-colored lenses.

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:26:33 +0000

I miss USENET

People chatted and listened and traded knowledge and understanding and even built (or lost) reputations based on ideas, thinking, and willingness to constructively contribute.

By: Rescue Blues

Rescue Blues — Tue, 10 May 2011 03:11:45 +0000

Charlie,

The problem with your posts is that they’re boring, with the same old rants every time. This is a thread on the compensation of Fremont employees. It has nothing to do with Bush & Iraq or FCN & baseball stadiums. I’ve given up wasting time considering or replying to your non-facts & exaggerations, but have you ever considered staying on topic?

Oh for the days of USENET readers and the ability to self-block posters…

By: charlie C

charlie C — Tue, 10 May 2011 02:12:55 +0000

#1 Calguy…No doubt policies championed by influential people have hurt us all. Bush and the Neo Con chose to invade Iraq and the FCN and their leaders killed professional baseball coming to Fremont. History has shown these to be colossal disasters that will take decades or even centuries to recover from.

By: bbox231

bbox231 — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:19:21 +0000

I agree with your “mind numbing” characterization, Matt – but, the *volume* of data you provide isn’t the issue since you actually deliver very few instances of data. Instead, it is the way you choose to deliver the data that makes this “mind numbing”. Put it another way, averages do a nice job of obfuscating.

Which is unfortunate because there’s some useful data here if someone wanted to make these details approachable by Fremont taxpayers.

For example – 143 employees cost the city $200k or more in 2010.

And, there are a couple of pretty obvious questions which remain completely untouched. For example -

What are the factors which are influencing markets for these same skills and how are they changing ?

An employee who works sufficient OT to double (or nearly double) their gross take-home is working a LOAD of hours. . . . is this healthy ? Is it safe ?????

By: West

West — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:37:25 +0000

The Fremont Mayor and Councilmember’s have not done nearly enough to curtail Pensions or Health Care for life, nor are they likely to do so.
Mayor Wasserman has been a Local Government bureaucrat for 50 years.
He will do all He can do to protect civil servants from Pension and Healthcare reform.
Other Cities in the Bay Area are scrambling to fix the pension problem before it is solved by Initiative.
That is a way for the residence to take action, if local government does not.