Police lieutenant claims he's been passed over for promotion because he supported Michael Flaherty
By adamg on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 7:55pm
Joseph Gillespie, president of the Boston Police Superior Officers Federation, charges he's been passed over for promotion several times now because he threatened to lead a boycott of the 2004 Democratic National Convention and because he convinced his union to support Michael Flaherty in the 2009 election for mayor.
In a lawsuit filed yesterday in US District Court in Boston, Gillespie charges he's now stuck as a lieutenant even though he tied for seventh on a civil-service exam for captain in 2008 - and had risen to first on the list by 2010. Gillespie alleges the city is now letting captains' positions go unfilled rather than promote him.
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This has been going on
This has been going on forever. Guys used to try to find out how they scored compared to the connected guy. If you did better than the connected guy, you were promoted, because they'd to down to his score to get him the job. On the other hand, if you were below a guy they had a grudge against, they would only promote down to the guy ahead of him. You can't take the politics out of it, even with Civil Service.
Always been political but . . .
Menino has raised the kowtow level around here to that not seen for generations, if at all. It's not a function of years in office either. From the very begining the word came down that if you had worked in the White administration you were not welcome. Only exceptions I've heard about were hired to put out serious fires. Consider Sam Yoon. I seriously doubt he was imagining that he had been blackballed by the Mayor.
passover
shalom
have it your way?
If your man won. You would be on top. and the other side would be complainig. what did you think would happen. its not right but to the victors yada yada yada.
But
Civil Service does have the ability to make scores more precise. I think they stopped giving out fractions with scores a few years ago. If you added fractions and just promoted by score, things like this wouldn't happen. It is also up to the Union to make sure positions are filled when they become vacated so this very thing does not happen.
That's Mumbles...
The most vindictive, petty MF out there. Payback is always a biatch with Tom. The dancing monkey in Hyde Square of yesteryear is getting the ultimate revenge of the nerd.
Also, promotions are already a rigged game because of the antiquated, anti-Constitution affirmation action that often results in another Ervin Burrell---a guy in over his head because he's not equipped to do the job. Public safety comes second to political correctness.
There was a sketchy court decision, Flynn vs. Menino,
(not Ray Flynn, but another Flynn) which set the tone, early on, for an unaccountably patronage-rife administration. Coincidentally, the dubious opinion was written by Richard Stearns, the same judge who let John Forbes off with a probation for dealing oxycontintin out of City Hall. I'll try to find the link later.
Flynn vs. Menino
By Richard Stearns. Interesting stuff- sorry it took so long to post.
If this stuff is to be believed, the following is a pretty sordid chronicle of hackery: