Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Ever have one of those days? I have them EVERYDAY!!
I have pretty much reserved myself to being kind of a old version of the kid Jake off of "2 1/2 Men". He had an epiphany one day about watching too much tv and how it has ruined his life...(he was 11 at the time) I think watching the life based television show we have at Bateman Hospital is kind of like a soap opera...but not as believable. Who is screwing who...who is getting fired...who is trying to get someone fired for screwing someone...blah blah blah. I have had employees share with me their sex life secrets...their bowel habits...sometimes their bowel habits ENTANGLED WITH their sex lives...DO NOT ask...one actually shared with me she thought had an STD...first sex in over a year and she thought she had...well...something that burns...LOL...apparently the tests were negative though...let's see...brother in law in jail...recipe advice...music advice on how to download mp3's..."how does my perfume smell?"..."can you still see this stain on my shirt?"...I got bitched at by an RN because they were having a "bad day" at which time I hung up the phone on them, not once, but TWICE...I dare them to write ME up...all of this just today, THEN somewhere in there I got my work done...I think...help...please...CALGON!!! Joe MAnchin and bowel movements...what an MAZING combination...tee hee.
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This is why I absolutely love you. you are so effin awesome. LYMI
Thank you so much Cara my friend...you see, it looks like it is just us...oh well, at least the company is good. There's really nothing we can do...folks are gonna do what they are gonna do. Richard Pryor once said about people in general: You can take a suit and tie and put it on an asshole (he was talking about the ACTUAL asshole...you know, the anus, the door to the dirt road, the "BUNG"hole, poopchute, the ...oh hell you know, anyway, he said "You can take a suit and tie and put it on an asshole, and you know what you have? You still have an asshole, you just happen to have one with a suit on" NOW, I am not calling anyone an asshole, just saying people don't normally change just because they have a certain "letter" beside their name...your turn my lovely blonde headed friend...i love a parade...la la la la la la
Well, we have Shelia and a few of the lovely people at Hopemont, which we didn't have before and it seems they fight harder for us than some of our very own. I understand most of them, they can not afford to lose their jobs, with all those children and some of them taking care of their parents. It's so damned hard to live today. I am going nutts here though waiting for someone to step up to bat with us, a baseball game is not good unless you have a whole team, the other teams all there, waiting on us to strike out. everyone says they want to be on our side and they say they are but they can't play because of the bum knee, arm ect. wich means I have a family to feed, bills to pay. I do understand, I really do,so do I. I have a mortgage, but I also have the humane factor built into me and if I go against that humane factor and ignore what is being done to most of these people my grandparents, great great, great and just grand, will come up out the grave and put me in one myself. I was tought better than that. I am on the side of the right. I see the devil, he looks me in the eye and I smile and stare him down. I walk through hell everyday and I smile because although the devil thinks he has us beat, we aren't giving up. this isn'g georgia and I don't know how to play a fiddle, but I know how to stand my grand and I ain't backing down no matter how hard they beat me down. I have watched you Jeff, I know how to work some of it now. I was a scared kitten before, but here I stand combing my mane waiting for the chance to pounce, I am on the prowl and I am hungry. LYMI
WOW...I don't know what else to say except WOW!! And yeah as usual I don't clarify very well, the folks at Hopemont hopefully know me well enough to know that I was not speaking of them when I said we are alone...you are right, they have been here better than most of our MMBH people...and yes, I understand the "afraid" factor, however, I do not accept it any longer. I mean hell, make a comment anonymously, that is better than nothing at all. Maybe if I beg...nahh, my wife says it does not look good on me...begging that is. Me, I think I beg just fine thank you...stay tuned.
Jeff/Cara:
I think most people find you very easy to talk to and full of wisdom, so they bring you their problems and hope you have an answer for them or at least validate how they are feeling.
I spoke with Nola from Pinecrest last night and she stated in the "Register Herald" (Beckley newspaper) (either Wed or Thursday) there was an article in section A on the "dress code grievance". I am going to try to find it today. Nola stated they only needed 15 more to sign up with UE to become their own chapter, I was very suprised to hear how well things are going there.
We are still without a CEO, our DON is acting CEO at this time. I don't think they have had too many apply for the job that are qualified.
We (Hopemont) are still with you guys and will do what we can on our end to assist you. Just let me know what you think we can do to help and we will do it. It is almost time for legislative session to begin again. I can annoy the hell out of the Senators/Delegates like we were doing last year. LOL.
I am praying that West Virginian's are sick and tired of Joe Manchin and they vote for a change with Russ Weeks. I have been spreading the word here and am putting up signs this weekend. It would be awesome to get him elected, then things at DHHR would get straightened out for the better.
Love you guys!!
Casino Financial Reports Show Millions For Stockholders But Loss Of Income For Company
Coming Monday September 8th, 2008
by, Sam Webber & Jack Swint - PWDGroup@gmail.com
Hartman & Tyner is a privately owned company and does not have to handover their financial statements to the public. But, as a casino & greyhound racing business they are required to furnish copies to the racing commission. We were able to obtain documents from 1999 to 2007, and these reports will shock you as to how they are manipulating the tax laws.
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Even though the company claims a net loss for 2007, their stockholders made millions. Then there are the revolving year to year floating "advances & loans" they have from the parent company Hartman & Tyner for approx. $11.9 million dollars.
Over a 9 year period they claim to have re payed loans to their sister casino in Florida that total approx. 31 million dollars.
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This story will leave you asking one question..... Why hasnt the state investigated this company after examining these yearly audit reports? We may know the answer, and that to will shock you!
westvirginianews.blogspot.com is where this article is located.
I doubt I am going to be shocked by the answer especially if it involves participation by our illustrious Governor. Wanted everyone to check it out on Monday when full article is due to be posted there.
Wednesday September 3, 2008
State workers challenge ban on blue jeans
by Justin D. Anderson
Daily Mail Capitol Reporter
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- State Department of Health and Human Resources employees at two state hospitals are asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a ban on wearing blue jeans to work.
Sheila Nestor, a nurse at Hopemont Hospital, and various housekeeping, dietary and maintenance employees at Pinecrest Hospital contend the ban infringes on their constitutional rights to free expression and liberty.
They also argue the DHHR's policy clashes with recommendations on dress codes put forth by the state Division of Personnel. Those guidelines say agencies can restrict what employees wear only if clothing affects production or safety or the general atmosphere of the workplace.
Kanawha County Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey Walker in December overturned two separate decisions by administrative law judges that ruled in favor of the employees after they filed grievances.
Justices will consider Thursday whether to grant the employees' petition.
According to the petition, the employees want the court to decide whether the DHHR has a "rational basis and legitimate state purpose" for banning blue jeans "while DHHR employees appear to remain free to wear green, brown, pink or purple jeans ..."
The employees contend that the policy seems to attack the "stereotypical" idea of blue jeans: worn and frayed. But there's a separate part of the policy that prohibits employees from showing up for work in shabby clothing, the employees argue.
"These employees work in state hospitals dealing with physical activities such as cleaning and physically assisting patients," the petition says.
"Their clothes are exposed to great wear and tear, and they have a good faith basis to believe that the wearing of blue jeans is a practice commonly accepted by the people of West Virginia as work attire."
The petition goes on to say that some employees at the DHHR earn less than $12,000 a year, work with cleaning and industrial chemicals and "need the type of protection, durability and affordability" offered by blue jeans.
"It is common knowledge that blue jeans have long life spans and are relatively affordable to lower income workers such as" the employees, the petition says.
DHHR Secretary Martha Yeager Walker implemented the dress code on Aug. 31, 2005. In a memorandum, Walker said the purpose was to maintain a professional atmosphere.
Walker specified that it would not benefit the agency to have representatives appearing in court or for public presentations wearing blue jeans.
Contending there was insufficient justification for an agency-wide ban, the hospital employees filed grievances. Two administrative law judges ruled in their favor, saying there was no rational basis for the ban.
DHHR appealed the decisions to the circuit court, which considered the matter in a consolidated fashion and ruled that state employees projecting a professional public image is indeed a legitimate state interest.
The employees in their petition agree with this. But they say Judge Jennifer Bailey Walker made the decision to uphold the ban on blue jeans without any evidence from DHHR that the attire harmed the agency's image.
"The DHHR failed to produce any survey, study, report or any other evidence that established that the public image of the DHHR would in any way, shape, or form, be tarnished by permitting employees to wear blue jeans in the normal course of their employment, when not appearing in court and/or giving professional presentations," the petition says.
Judge Walker said in her decision that the DHHR amply showed why it banned one color of jeans and not others.
The judge ruled that for the policy to be considered arbitrary and capricious - thus worthy of overturning - it must "shock the contemporary conscience." The judge found that the blue jean ban did not do this.
"It is a common notion that blue jeans are casual attire and many employers throughout the nation prohibit employees from wearing blue jeans to work," Judge Walker wrote in the order.
Richard McGervey, a staff lawyer for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is representing the employees before the Supreme Court.
Contact writer Justin D. Anderson at jus...@dailymail.com">jus...@dailymail.com or 304-348-4843.
W.Va. may get new mental hospital
by The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A new 148-bed psychiatric hospital in Beckley is one of the options the state is exploring to ease overcrowding in its two acute care mental health facilities.
The options are included in a letter from the attorney's general's office that was obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The letter, dated Aug. 27, was sent to David Sudbeck, the state ombudsman for behavioral health, who released a report in July detailing crowded conditions at Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital in Huntington.
The letter says the state Department of Health and Human Resources "has made great strides'' in trying to stay within the two hospitals' capacity of 240 beds, but that factors ranging from an aging population to a rise in substance abuse-related commitments have made it impossible in recent years to avoid some crowding.
One of the options is the possibility of a hospital in Beckley, for which the letter says Appalachian Regional Hospital is preparing a certificate of need application. A call to Appalachian Regional Healthcare, the hospital's parent company, was not immediately returned.
Other possibilities under discussion include using 30 beds at a Highland Hospital facility due to be built in Charleston and using the recently closed Vocational Rehabilitation Center in Institute.
The letter also said DHHR wants to hire up to 70 permanent employees at Bateman hospital to cut down on the use of employees hired for 90-day stints.
The use of temporary employees has been criticized by members of the UE Local 170 Public Workers Union who work at Bateman. They've complained that temporary employees last long enough only to be properly trained before their contracts expire.
In his July report, Sudbeck called on the state to re-evaluate the use of temporary employees with a view to learning whether it was harming patient care.
Calls to Sudbeck and DHHR spokesman John Law were not immediately returned Friday.
The letter says Sudbeck's recommendation to look into a separate psychiatric facility for "forensic'' patients -- those committed by the criminal justice system -- isn't necessary, since the state is already moving to alleviate crowding.
"Temporary staffing must be used to insure patient safety and permanent staff engaged in direct care must be required to work overtime,'' the letter says.
"Beds must be found for patients even at the expense of temporary crowding and diminution of privacy. Bateman hospital has risen to this challenge.''
Published in Charleston Daily Mail Sept 6th, 2008.
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Jeff/Cara:
Please read the comments for DHHR dress code grievance, most people are blasting us as whiners.
I wrote a comment as "WV State Employee" today and tried to explain the real reasons for the grievance.
Some people have no clue what we do in the state hospitals and the abuse we take. It makes me so angry. I know most of the ones posting could not walk a day in our shoes if they had to.
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