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Taking your pay and stripes is not always the case. This is one way they have of getting rid of you. If your are liked by the "thugs in charge" you lose no pay. This is a proven fact. This can be verified by the finance department. As long as you are in the sheriff's favor, you can move anywhere you want to without penalty of losing pay or stripes. There is not a line of progression showing a pay plan or a line showing advancement. Not all road deputies make the same. Three differnt sargents may make three different rates of pay. I know why this is true, and I will always remain at the bottom, while Willie is still here. Usually an organization of our size will show you a line of progression with an organizational chart. We have NO ORGANAZATION so we don't need one. Most charts will show something like one major, two captains, three lieutenants, four sargents, five corporals, and then your road deputies. Same chart for the jail control personnel. This would appear as a pyramid if you drew it out. If ours were drawn out it would look like a pyramid turned upside down. As in something like five majors, four captains, three lieutenants, two corporals, and a few non ranking personnel. Now Mrs. Sears is entirely different. She has no stripes to lose. However, the sheriff can give her a raise anytime he wants to and he has proven this time and again. Dyals, the hog farmer is another example. He is a captain and has never worked the jail or road. Only the Ponderos as he continues till this day. He has been rewarded well by the sheriff. I do wish the FBI would yank his tail in and spill the beans on the sheriff. Bottom line, if you don't cater to the sheriif, you are placed in the sheriff's purgatory. Or if someone tells the sheriff that you said something out of line, or if someone wants to put you on the outs with the sheriff or his thuggies, all they do is tell a tale on you. YOU DO NOT HAVE YOUR DAY IN COURT WITH THE SHERIFF OR EVEN GET A CHANCE TO DEFEND YOUR SELF AGAINST YOUR ACCUSER. This is the way Willie runs it. And when Willie is not around, Easterling threatens everyone. He believes you should be scared of him to do a good job. I am waiting on the indictments and hopefully someone will one day run this department like a sheriff's office.
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12 comments:
I for one am looking forward to Tommy Gregory taking over the department and righting all of these wrongs. Thats Tommy minus the Steve influence.
I hope Tommy is currently planning, because he has alot of restructuring to do. Seems like the entire department is corrupt at the top level.
Tommy has been planning to restructure the Sheriff since 2005. He knows who the bad apples are.
He also knows there are a lot of good hard working people doing all the work not getting the credit they deserve!
To everyone at the Sheriff's Office hang in there help is coming.
This writing is 100% correct. This Sheriff doesn't run his office like a good leader and manager would. He doesn't even know the 5 P's to sucess. Which are Prior planning, prevents piss poor management.
The sheriff fired Charlie Easterling last year and he was out for about two weeks. Does anyone know why he was fired? I don't know that answer so I darn sure don't understand why he brought him back.
I keep reading , and reading these comments and the same thing keeps being said about the Sheriff's leadership in this agency. All I can ask is why when it is so bad has all the people at the agency stayed there ? I know people need job's but at what cost to your self respect and integrity ? There are other law enforcement agencies in the county and the surrounding area which are hiring every day, why do you people stay there ?
My question is why should anyone leave just because a crook is running the department? If I worked there, I would expose them from the inside and hope that people would realize there are some serious felonies being committed and we need help to rid this county of the problem. What if everyone ran and hid from problems, this would be a good place to live wouldn't it? This problem should be taken care of so maybe no more good people will be forced to leave.
The Sheriff fired Charlie last year for 2 weeks, because Charlie cussed out Roger Dyals as he does everyone. Roger had moved a trailer, and pissed Charlie off. So Charlie cussed Roger out and went stupid calling him names. Well Roger went to the Sheriff and told him and the Sheriff fired him. Then everyone suspects Charlie knew way to much on the Sheriff, and the sheriff figured I better bring him back becuase if he tells about all the crooked shit I have done, I will be in big trouble. This firing people happens weekly up here, just last last week Rob Mastrianni was fired for like 2 days.
I bet Charley could write a hell of a book on the sheriff
You know the ole saying that "if you lie with dogs you will also get fleas"? Well ole Charlie can't say too much. You see he has used quite a few inmates at his house and trailer. He will not say anything about inmate labor. But he says he paid them also and fed them. Work all day for a bologna sandwich and $10 is not quite being compensated. I could use some of this inmate labor. What is the inmated to do? Who can he complain to?
This is to woodbounder's question. The reason people continue to stay there is because they have no more integrity than the sherriff, and they are well compensated for that!! The honest ones have to keep their mouth's shut in order to hold onto their jobs.
It would be a good managerial decision for anyone (new or old sheriff) to take some time to find out how other sheriff's offices of comprable size are organized. Or find a county of comprable size and compare how its sheriff's office is maintained. Obtain a copy of budgets, personnel organizational charts, etc.
The CCSO seems to be run on a day to day basis according to the whims of specific peoples' needs and not on what the community needs, which is stability with an assurance that they will be protected from those who endeavor to harm them.
Yes if they had some management, but the problem is, they don't.
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