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Well, the new Portland mayor, Keith
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson announced that all city managers and supervisors must return to working in office full time this spring.
“I’m committed to a culture of excellence,” wrote Wilson in a Tuesday email to city managers, “and working face-to-face cultivates the collaboration, camaraderie and innovation our city deserves.”
Currently, just 30 percent of the city’s nearly 1,000 supervisors and managers work entirely in person. But 700 of those leaders are working fully or partially remote. In April, they will all need to return to working in the office.
You talk about setting yourself up for trouble. It's like Hizzoner jumped into a tank full of piranhas and started telling them where they can and can't swim. Whether he knows it or not, the biting has surely begun. I figured he'd be a political corpse by Labor Day, but now I'm starting to think Easter.
Meanwhile, the new City Council has set up the breakout rooms for Book Club. You look at those names and you can't help but think, good heavens, this is going to be the exact opposite of a "culture of excellence."
I’m betting Valentine’s Day…
ReplyDeleteAnd I heard on OPB today that the new counselors all want 3 to 5 staff members each. The cost for that just went up to $11 million. Talk about herding cats!
Efficiency my Aunt Fanny
I hope he’s not a whim. I’d be nice to have someone in that office with a backbone.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping he has the spine to follow through. Looking back, I think this is what Vera would have done. For all her faults, she stuck to her guns and got things done.
ReplyDeleteThe rest of us go to work every day, and many of us even had to during the pandemic. Our tax dollars go to pay for these government employees to sit home. Get these lazy bastards back in the office.
ReplyDeleteLeadership scorecard so far? Initially orders all employees back to office, then immediately faints under pressure and says stay home indefinitely…now orders management back by the spring? The spring? How about next week? Not exactly Churchillian…..
ReplyDeleteI bet Wilson won’t even be Mayor by the end of summer. I just have this feeling he’s either going to flame out and quit, or something he does or did in the past will take him down. At heart he’s a big weenie, even more than Wheeler was.
ReplyDeleteI also think the council will rein him in soon, as the new mayor position is pretty powerless.
DeleteHomelessness now gets a place at the table. That shows how much the city has fallen, where it is as big an issue as Finances and Transportation. And WTF can the city do to effect thousand year cycles of global weather changes? The new religion is powerful, but not that powerful. What a waste of money and time!
ReplyDeleteGot to get those worker bees back to using their wages to buy sandwiches, coffee, and parking fees.
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