Imagine this scenario: I’m sitting at Starbucks having tea with one of the persons named in Mark Uffer’s lawsuit against the county. My phone rings and an unfamiliar number is displayed. Something makes me answer the phone. I am asked if I believe Mark Uffer would make a good administrator for Needles Hospital. My companion starts laughing hysterically.
It seems that Uffer has applied for the position. There is a county employee in Needles who is pushing very hard to hire Mark and he is the only candidate to apply so far. A background check is being completed. In the process, someone finds a copy of the lawsuit Uffer has filed against the county and prints it out. They read the very last page, which was an email from me and my parting shot to him where I called him a liar.
That email had been sent from a county computer at ARMC on my last day. They called my number there and found out I’m no longer working. They go through some more of the exhibits and come across an email I had sent to Mark from home where I told him he was fanning the flames. That email had my cell phone number on it. So they called that number and found me.
I told them that I would prefer to allow his former employees to give input. So, if anyone would like to do so, Needles would like to hear from you. Emails can be sent to janispaget@aol.com.
How does it feel to be one of Muffer’s employment references? The folks in Needles would be absolutely desperate if they go ahead and hire him after they find out the waves he has been making since his termination w/o cause (ha, ha, ha) so that the Devil could take his place as king of corruption at San Berdoodoo County and Arrowhead Regional. Rotsa ruck Muffer, do they have a McDonald’s out there in the desert that needs your Service First kind of management style? Another hospital though, forget about it, specially with your reputation as a disposable napkin for the Board of Supervisors.
If he drops his lawsuit against the county, then hire him if no one else wants to work for the hospital.
Muffer should be fine way out in Needles. Nobody goes to that hospital anyway and he can collect a hefty paycheck for being the short, incompetent boob that he is. It’s a win-win situation!
Way back in my life when I was an office boy for a company that did consulting work for school districts, the rage was the book “The Peter Principle” I never read the book, but I was told the thumbnail. The problem was a fictional employee named Peter who did well and was promoted, did well and was promoted, did well and was promoted, and then was found to be in a capacity over his head where he could not function.
By the structure of the system, Peter was not promoted further, but neither was it acceptable to demote him to the last job at which he was capable and qualified. So Peter lived out the remainder of his carreer at the level of his incompetency, rather than being allowed to fall back to the level of his competency.
It may be that Needles will love Peter (I mean Mark) and that Mark will love Needles.
Some people in administrative or political positions just can’t retire even when they have a better than average pension.
They just crave that power and notoriety. Look at moonbeam, 72 years old and just can’t go fishing or enjoy other aspects of life. He has to keep that power and all those connections he has close to him.
I wonder if that way of life is as intoxicating as using a controlled substance? It sure seems to be a sickness for some. It must be a sickness to put up with all the crap you have to, to stay on top of the game. Or in Uffers case dish it out more often than receive it.
I heard from a few who say that just don’t know what to do if they retire?
Maybe all those free lunches and better than average deals on products that politicians/administrators get, really do become addicting?
If Marks gets that job in Needles he needs to be careful in how he treats folks out there. There is a lot of desert surrounding that little toilet.
ACU, there is definitely a natural neurochemistry in the brain that propells us us to get out of bed, strive, and succeed. There is a neurological reward system for success, and yes, it is habit forming.
Illegal drugs mimick or interrupt the normal neurochemical pathways, and so interupt normal life. With cocaine and meth in particular, the user will get the sensation of success even while they are destroying their careers, body, life, and the lives around them. That is why these substances are controlled.
Habit forming indeed.. Listening to the Mike Corona tapes sure gives that impression.
If Needles is a little toilet, then the inland empire is a sewage sinkhole.
There’s always a back story. Piece of info: Janis Paget is the wife of Dr. Edward Paget who is running for mayor of Needles in November 2010 election. Dr. Paget previously took City of Needles to court to try to stop his removal from his position as CRMC hospital board president. Regardless of Uffer’s pros & cons, Paget wants usable dirt against Uffer because Paget and a couple of his buddies on the city council want unrestrained control of the hospital. Be careful, Dr. Paget, there’s a lot of dirt to be found and used on both sides.
Very well put Desert Dweller. Dr. Padget cost that hospital from my understanding a lot of money and he was one of them that ran it into the red!