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San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is facing claims of a toxic work environment from ex-employees who say the office is rife with condescension, broken promises and overwork—leading to staff turnover.
Since taking office in January, six people have left the mayor’s team of about 25 people, compared to other freshman policymakers who have seen a maximum of two people leave in the same time period, according to data provided by the city’s office of employee relations. Some say they left for new opportunities, while others claim they were forced to find new jobs because of problems they could no longer ignore.
“People are pushed and worked too hard and morale is extremely low,” a former employee told San José Spotlight. “We work every single day, every weekend, every event and we weren’t getting compensated fairly for it.”
San José Spotlight reached out to dozens of current and former employees to gain insight into working conditions in Mahan’s office, stretching back to his days as a councilmember and his campaign for mayor. Five employees corroborated a range of difficult work experiences that led to frustration and feeling overwhelmed. Others spoke highly of the mayor, calling him a fair leader and mentor. Most declined to comment. San José Spotlight granted anonymity to staffers who feared retribution.
Mahan and his team refuted the claims, saying morale in the office is high and that some staff turnover is unavoidable.
“We’ve prioritized creating a culture where everyone feels comfortable saying what they think, proposing solutions and pushing for better outcomes,” Mahan told San José Spotlight. “I’m committed to a culture of continuous improvement so we’re always looking to get better, and our team is one of the best I’ve had the honor of leading.”
Four former employees said Mahan speaks to staff in a patronizing tone, including questioning their ability to complete tasks under their purview. Two former employees said colleagues complained about Mahan asking them to run personal errands, such as picking up his dry-cleaning. One former employee claimed Mahan used his taxpayer-funded police security to drop his two young children off at school. His office denies this allegation.
Jim Reed, Mahan’s chief of staff, said one employee picked up the mayor’s suit from dry-cleaning before the mayor’s inauguration.
“This request was clearly conveyed as exactly that, a request, and a staffer who lives by the mayor did volunteer and deliver the dry-cleaning,” Reed told San José Spotlight. “Neither I nor our management team is aware of any other occasion that anybody in our office has helped the mayor with anything remotely personal.”
Long hours, no overtime
Others claim Mahan failed to deliver the pay raises he promised, causing resentment among staff who say they consistently work more than 40 hours a week and occasional weekends.
A current staff member chided at the allegation that Mahan’s office was “toxic” or that morale is low. The expectation to work long hours was made clear ahead of time, they said. For people working in politics, long hours are part of the culture, and it’s the passion and mission of the office that drives staff—not the perks.
“Of course there is tension sometimes, it’s the mayor’s office, it’s a high pressure situation,” the current staffer said. “But he never yelled at us.”
Mahan said most of his staff work “well over” 40 hours a week, “but we also recognize the importance of a healthy work-life balance.” Most of the mayor’s full-time employees are salaried and do not qualify for overtime pay.
“We are always trying to find the best trade offs to ensure our team loves what they do and feel valued, respected and supported in their jobs while working with the same sense of urgency our neighbors feel about ending the era of encampments, making our neighborhoods safer and cleaning
July 25, 1917, The exotic dancer Mata Hari is sentenced to death by a French court for spying on Germany’s behalf during World War I.
“Mata Hari” was actually a stage name – and an invented persona. She was born Margaretha “Gertha” Zelle in the Netherlands in 1876 to a wealthy, if unexceptional, family. At the age of 18, she fled her boring life in the Netherlands for the Dutch East Indies where she became an officer’s wife. STORY HERE
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How to apply tape…backstage with the Blacktape Project…a bit of a tutorial
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Dog Rides On His Dad’s Motorcycle Through All 50 States
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Read The Transcript Nixon Prepared In Case Neil Armstrong And Buzz Aldrin Got Stranded On The Moon
The phrase “Nixon Moon Landing Death Speech” sounds like the beginnings of a conspiracy theory, but it’s a real piece of Apollo 11 history that is often forgotten. The real history of Nixon and the Moon landing is one of success for the President and the astronauts involved, but Tricky Dick needed to have a speech prepared in the event of an unexpected disaster. In an alternate universe, Richard Nixon sat down on July 20, 1969, to deliver the most difficult speech of his career – telling a shocked and grieving nation that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin wouldn’t be coming home from their lunar adventure.
Obviously, the story of Nixon, Armstrong, and Aldrin, ended much happier than that, but the transcript of Nixon’s prepared remarks, which was revealed in 1999, paints a vivid picture of the responsibilities held by the President of the United States. Even during the moments of humanity’s greatest triumphs, world leaders must be prepared for all possibilities and eventualities, even those that are unthinkable. Thankfully, this speech remained forever in the “What If?” file of history. READ FULL STORY HERE
The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing > hot pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children’s tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids..
And when the weather was cold Grandma wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees. When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that ‘old-time apron’ that served so many purposes.
Send this to those who would know (and love) the story about Grandma’s aprons.
REMEMBER: Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
BOY if that ain’t the truth !!!!!!!!!!!! They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.
I don’t think I ever caught anything from an apron – but love…
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Family forced to pay to ship body of Marine killed after Pentagon policy change: ‘Egregious injustice’
Matt Gaetz Issues Bill to End Nation’s Anchor Baby Policy for Illegal Aliens
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is introducing a plan to end the nation’s anchor baby policy that rewards the United States-born children of illegal aliens with birthright American citizenship, Breitbart News can exclusively reveal.
Annually, nearly 400,000 “anchor babies,” the term used to describe the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, are delivered across all 50 states.
Anchor babies are rewarded with birthright citizenship despite their parents having no legitimate ties to the U.S., many having only recently arrived. Years later, when the child is considered an adult, they can sponsor their parents and foreign relatives for green cards — anchoring their family in the country for generations.
On Tuesday, Breitbart News learned Gaetz is filing the “End Birthright Citizenship Fraud Act of 2023” which amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to clarify birthright citizenship is solely for the U.S.-born children of American citizens and legal immigrants. STORY HERE
Witnesses describe seeing a “biblical” mass migration of toads over a mile long in Stockton, Utah.
‘The road itself was moving’: Witness describes ‘toad-mageddon’ on highway
Brutal FBI Source Doc Just Released, Says Dog Is Smarter Than Hunter Biden
President Joe Biden once called his son Hunter the “smartest guy I know.” Burisma founder and CEO Mykola Zlochevsky thinks, um, differently on the matter, according to an FBI document released Thursday.
In the FD-1023 document detailing an unverified conversation with an informant, the informant told FBI investigators that although Zlochevsky believed his dog “was smarter” than Hunter Biden, the son of the current U.S. president should be retained on the Ukrainian energy giant’s board of directors because he could influence matters in the United States. See Story HERE
Sen. Grassley releases redacted FBI informant document related to Biden allegations
Warning this video has a naked woman destroying a market while employees are told to leave her alone until police arrive….
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Louisiana Police Commercial / WANTED MEN NUFF SAID!
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Again, bit older, still entertaining.
Word Play
1. BEAUTY PARLOR A place where women curl up and dye.
2. CHICKENS The only animal you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
3. COMMITTEE A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
4. DUST Mud with the juice squeezed out.
5. EGOTIST Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
6. HANDKERCHIEF Cold Storage.
7. INFLATION Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
8. MOSQUITO An insect that makes you like flies better.
9. POLITICAL CORRECTNESS A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority.
10. RAISIN A grape with a sunburn.
11. SECRET A story you tell to one person at a time.
12. SKELETON A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
13. TOOTHACHE The pain that drives you to extraction.
14. TOMORROW One of the greatest labour saving devices of today.
15. YAWN An honest opinion openly expressed.
16. WRINKLES Something other people have…similar to my character lines.
17. OLD I very quietly confided to my friend that I was having an Affair. She turned to me and asked, “Are you having it catered?”. . . and that, my friend, is the definition of ‘OLD’!!!
Old Farts Squad ( real shoulder patch of a squad fighting in Ukraine ) never under estimate pissed off old guys !!!!
It’s true! Doctors are Impressed how well Biden sleeps without CPAP machine
Radiator leaks? No problem mun…
Reason #7 that I am not buying an EV anytime soon…
Strange History of WWII
You might enjoy this from Col D. G. Swinford, USMC, Ret and history buff. You would really have to dig deep to get this kind of ringside seat to history:
1. The first German serviceman killed in WW II was killed by the Japanese ( China , 1937), The first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians ( Finland 1940); The highest ranking American killed was Lt Gen Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps.
2. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old: Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. His benefits were later restored by act of Congress.
3. At the time of Pearl Harbor , the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced ‘sink us’); The shoulder patch of the US Army’s 45th Infantry division was the swastika. Hitler’s private train was named ‘Amerika.’ All three were soon changed for PRpurposes.
4. More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions, an airman’s chance of being killed was 71%.
5. Generally speaking, there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance, Japanese Ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane.
6. It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th round with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a big mistake. Tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of ammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go down.
7. When allied armies reached the Rhine , the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).
8. German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City , but they decided it wasn’t worth the effort.
9. German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.
10. Among the first ‘Germans’ captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army.
11. Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 United States and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. 21 troops were killed in the assault on the island……. It could have been worse if there had actually been any Japanese on the island.
12. The last marine killed in WW2 was killed by a can of spam. He was on the ground as a POW in Japan when rescue flights dropping food and supplies came over, the package came apart in the air and a stray can of spam hit him and killed him.
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San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is facing claims of a toxic work environment from ex-employees who say the office is rife with condescension, broken promises and overwork—leading to staff turnover.
Buckwild Facts About Mata Hari, The Exotic Dancer Who Became A WWI Spy
Witnesses describe seeing a “biblical” mass migration of toads over a mile long in Stockton, Utah.
It’s true! Doctors are Impressed how well Biden sleeps without CPAP machine
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