Pete McKay
03-10-2008, 08:55 PM
Some of you know that I work with Fresno Parks and Recreation, the same agency that yanked the carpet out from under my Mini-Indy last year. I started with them in July as an aid in their computer lab. Last week my boss came out to my facility and met with me and offered me a new position with P&R, and of course I accepted it. I started today, I got to meet Mayor Aurty (Bubba on heat of the Night and Grace's BF on Grace Under Fire), a couple of Congressmen and the PD Chief. I wish I had taken a camera, those meetings would have been cool for my Myspace.
What I do now is crunch attendance numbers and moniter lab employee performance. Since I seem to be an EXCEL wizz I designed a sheet they use to maintain those numbers, and I'm a real pisser about being to work on-time and to stay the entire shift. I've trained a few aids in that time, all of them are now top notch employees. My job is to turn those I didn't train into better employees.
But the new position took me away from the Mosqueda Center, and the director of that facility was very disappointed I was leaving. In the months I was there I managed to run off most of the thug element, allowing more younger kids to start coming and enjoying the computer lab and other stuff. I will still monitor that facility but I also have a dozen others to monitor, and I'm not dealing with the users now, just the lab employees.
I turned down a $1 an hour pay raise for other perks. I'm getting a nice 3GB flash drive, a rare city vehicle parking pass that lets me park anywhere but Mayor Autry's space, and tickets to events in city parks events like the park concerts we have every spring and summer. Last year we had the Beach Boys, this year CCR is supposed to come and give a Concerts in the Park. Baseball games (go Grizzlies!, a SF Giants minor league team), hockey tickets and plays at the Soroyan Theatre. Hey, I'm an HR Professional, I knew that the perks would far exceed the value of the extra pay. And by taking perks I don't chance losing my disability with excessive wages.
The other really nice thing....I have a fresno.gov email address. Man, things are finally looking up.
What I do now is crunch attendance numbers and moniter lab employee performance. Since I seem to be an EXCEL wizz I designed a sheet they use to maintain those numbers, and I'm a real pisser about being to work on-time and to stay the entire shift. I've trained a few aids in that time, all of them are now top notch employees. My job is to turn those I didn't train into better employees.
But the new position took me away from the Mosqueda Center, and the director of that facility was very disappointed I was leaving. In the months I was there I managed to run off most of the thug element, allowing more younger kids to start coming and enjoying the computer lab and other stuff. I will still monitor that facility but I also have a dozen others to monitor, and I'm not dealing with the users now, just the lab employees.
I turned down a $1 an hour pay raise for other perks. I'm getting a nice 3GB flash drive, a rare city vehicle parking pass that lets me park anywhere but Mayor Autry's space, and tickets to events in city parks events like the park concerts we have every spring and summer. Last year we had the Beach Boys, this year CCR is supposed to come and give a Concerts in the Park. Baseball games (go Grizzlies!, a SF Giants minor league team), hockey tickets and plays at the Soroyan Theatre. Hey, I'm an HR Professional, I knew that the perks would far exceed the value of the extra pay. And by taking perks I don't chance losing my disability with excessive wages.
The other really nice thing....I have a fresno.gov email address. Man, things are finally looking up.