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L.A. eats $95,000 payout to fire Gloria Jeff
Posted by Fired Fred on October 23, 2007 5:08 PM
The ex-transit chief won't get her job back. The city council won't get to talk about the five-digit check she's getting to just go the hell away. Judging by this comment about her management style, it sounds like her former co-workers would rather be stuck in the path of the wildfires south of L.A. than have to work for her again...
So much was so wrong on so many levels, from an apparent lack of foresight on the part of Villaraigosa and his staff (Hiring 102: check references), to the fact that many on the City Council and those who worked below Jeff chafed repeatedly at her brusque manner. In short, there were few if any team-building lunches at the Olive Garden. Seems Jeff had the social skills of the Joker from "Batman" (sorry, that's not a very nice thing to say about the Joker).For those of you who were doing more constructive things, like getting investment banking jobs, instead of reading Batman or Detective Comics, the Joker is a psychopathic murderer who used to kill people with a poison that froze their faces into grinning death masks.
I know a lot of people have had crap bosses, and I've had a few of these inhumans as supervisors too, but I feel pretty safe in saying none of them ever killed half the office with toxic Krispy Kremes. Or seemed real likely to do it, though there's one I can think of who wouldn't surprise me with a front page appearance in Brutal Crimes Monthly.
The thought probably didn't occur to them at the time. Gloria's ex-underlings must be breathing easier.