Bad Economy Forces Welfare Agency Hiring Spree
Economic woes have forced at least one city agency into a hiring spree — adding more workers to process the demand for food stamps and other assistance.
Between paying people to be “discouraged” from looking for work and hiring government “workers” (who are almost by definition not productive) I’ll bet we’ll have the reported unemployment down to 0 in no time! More precisely, just in time for the November election.
I’ll tell you, as a self-employed consultant who is paying more than half of his gross income to taxes (including property taxes), I am so much better off than I was four years ago. Thank you so much, Barack Ofuckingbama, Congressional Democrats, and you miserable goat sucking Congressional RINOs.
As many of you know, I worked for the city of San Francisco for several years up until my retirement last year. During the last couple of years, after I placed very high on a test, I was on a list for potential eligibility worker jobs. EWs do all the grunt work in getting people qualified for all sorts of benefits, especially city cash benefits (CAAP), and Food Stamps. These are “income positions,” because they generate more state and federal income than they cost of city income. Quite a bit more, in fact.
And, even though there has been a hard hiring freeze on city positions for more than three years, eligibility worker hires have continued without letup. Even though I’ve been retired for eight months now, I still get letters notifying me of new openings for which I am eligible to interview.
Base salary for these positions is in the 70-80k range, plus gold plated benefits, plus a fair amount of comp time (since overtime is currently banned). Comp time is granted on a one to one basis for overtime work, rather than the time and a half OT normally requires.