In today's turbulent economic climate the average family's needs are simple. A stable job that pays the bills and helps them support their families. It can be a stressful burden on someone when they face an uncertain future with regard to their employment. Companies folding and laying off workers populate the news headlines on almost a monthly basis. But what happens when you are let go at the whim of an uncaring manager? You're not released because of bad job performance, or poor work habits like being late. You are released at the whimsy of your manager who, in all likelihood, will lie to you about the reason you are actually being let go. Take my situation for example, At first I was told that "my services would no longer be required". I was handed an unofficial looking letter from the office of Gregory McKay but the letter wasn't signed by him. Over a month later I received another letter from the office of Gregory McKay stating that they had made a mistake. I wasn't let go by the CRCU, but I that I had abandoned my job instead. Now clearly something about this situation isn't right. Somewhere, someone in DCS and the CRCU is lying. It is lies like this one that permeate the records department and the Department of Child safety as a whole. It is lies like this one that place employees in the CRCU and DCS as a whole in danger. Gun violence is an almost daily occurrence across the country. Movie theater shootings, church shootings, and car to car shootings on valley freeways are in the news with alarming frequency. Mass shootings like these occur without warning and victims are often innocent people who are caught unaware. What does the CRCU and DCS plan to do when a disgruntled employee comes back for revenge after being lied to about why they were released? Their lives brought to a screeching halt because they no longer have the means to feed their children, pay their bills and make a living. Someone's whole life is destroyed because of the inane whims of a CRCU manager who thinks they are all powerful. Understandably people are released everyday for various reasons. People get fired all the time and they don't come back and commit acts of violence when they are let go for reasons that are clear, concise, and honest. When some is fired for no reason or lied on it is difficult to tell what they may do. The fact of the matter is you never know what someone may be dealing with in their personal lives, nor can anyone say with any amount of certainty what will send someone over the edge and causing them to commit a violent act. However, bringing someone's life to a halt on a selfish whim certainly increases the chances of such an event. Often times in such violence the shooter isn't looking to harm a certain individual whom they might have issue with. Their victims are usually innocent people who are chosen at random for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. So what does DCS and the CRCU plan to do in the event that someone does come after them looking to do harm? The answer is nothing. The managers of the CRCU are awash in the false comfort that they work in a locked facility and nothing can harm them. I guess they have forgotten that CRCU employees have lives outside their jobs.The repercussions of their bad decisions don't punch a time clock like human beings do. Any employee can be harmed at a local Walmart or Fry's grocery store or even walking through the parking lot to their cars at the end of a long work day. I have witnessed the potential for violence impacting the workplace first hand with makeshift wanted posters plastered all over the CRCU offices. These posters warned us about the potential threat of two men who could at any moment accost us in the parking lot looking for two of Marisela Moreno's family members. Most assuredly it is the lies they tell themselves that will do the most harm. Violence like this won't happen to them because they've done nothing wrong. The truth is when you play God with people's lives and lie about it you have done something wrong whether you choose to admit it or not. All adverse actions to being lied to, fired, and having your life ripped out from under you don't have result in a violent outcome. One person with enough proof of wrong doing could run to any attorney here in the valley and sue DCS. A million dollar lawsuit would bankrupt the Department of Child Safety and close the records unit down permanently. All because a few managers didn't have the insight to do the job they were assigned with no integrity.
Now I am obviously not advocating violence against the CRCU management in any way. Gun violence is always tragic and never solves anything. It weakens us as a society and I would never suggest anyone use it as a means to an end. What I would suggest is that people start to leave the CRCU. Call Randstad and ask them to find you something better. Somewhere you have the opportunity to become a permanent employee and be promoted without nepotism being a factor in that process. The CRCU is a dead end job that will never lead to permanent employment nor financial stability. Therefore, I strongly urge permanent and temporary employees to seek other employment opportunities and stop wasting your time and talents in the wasteland of DCS. To the permanent employees I say this...get out now. Leave before you become the next victim of the unscrupulous management tactics of the CRCU. They don't value you as they should and perhaps they never will. You deserve better than the management has given you and I implore you to find it...somewhere else.
