promotional nightmare

[Brett Hartwig]

OK, let me get your opinion on this. I have been going through my fire dept's Lieutenant promotional process for the last couple months (career dept). Along the way a tentative list was made after the oral, written, and education points. Then for those of us who got them, we were supposed to request veterans points. I did all of this, and hand delivered my discharge paper and request letter to the front counter of the police dept (where the documents were supposed to go). Well, long story short, the police and fire commission is saying they never received my veterans preferance points request, therefore I am ranked at 3 instead of 2, a huge drop. I don't know who dropped the ball, but the documents never made it to where they were supposed to go and now there is going to be a special meeting to decide what to do. My question- if they decide to leave the list the way it is- what recourse do I have. This is beyond belief- I did exactly what I was supposed to do, but because some lazy PD dispatcher did not get the paperwork to the secretary like he said he would, I may suffer. Is there anything else I can do to open their eyes and see what an unfair event has taken place?

 

[Richard Kolb]

you can ask some people who you know would tell on you if they know a good lawyer, otherwise if you're in a union there must be some procedure to contest this sort of stuff.

 

[Jim parnell]

do you have a copy of everything you submitted with a date on it?? That would help in proving you did submit the necessary paperwork. How long ago was all this done, do they have security camera, they may still have the tape/recording for the day you submitted the paperwork. Possible appeal to the union/whatever may be available??GL

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Freeport, you say in one breath you don't know who dropped the ball, then in another you blame a lazy dispatcher.



I'd say try to resubmit.



Also, I'm not a fan of a ranking aystem that formally gives ex-military additional consideration for a civil servant job....so I will just toss that out there.



TJR

 

[Woppy V]

uhhh... I'd just start kickin' ass and taking names later!



hunt down who you gave the papers too



hunt down where they went



bark and demand what is owed to you



threaten with lawyers



if this is something that can be readily fixed by tugging and twisting on the correct persons ears then do it.



etc...



:smile0015:

 

[Brett Hartwig]

well I called the guy I gave the paperwork to- he vaguely remembers me giving him something a few weeks ago but does not know where it went from there. Video tape of the front PD counter only goes back 2 weeks so no help there either. Union rep and fire chief don't think there will be any big deal at the meeting when they discuss this. Guess we will see if they do the right thing. I have a copy of the letter I gave them requesting the points, but what does that prove- I could have done that 5 minutes ago and wrote Dec. 15th on it. guess we will see on Tuesday at the commission meeting.