Can’t anyone right here play this recreation, the sport in query being nepotism?
It must be the best rip-off within the hackerama — getting relations the identical form of phony-baloney, six-figure, no-heavy-lifting public-sector job you’ve got, behind which comes the 80 % pension.
However the hacks appear to be shedding this most simple talent — or at the very least the flexibility to maintain their household and friends and never get caught.
Take a look at these two headlines from the previous few days:
“Ex-UMass official fined $10K for hiring brother.”
“Ex-judge fined $4K for appointing father to supervise dwelling sale.”
Probably the most chilling a part of these headlines? The phrase “ex.” Meaning the hack has suffered a destiny worse than dying, specifically, being separated from the general public trough.
As everyone knows, it’s virtually unattainable to get fired from a hack job in Massachusetts, even when you’re caught red-handed. However actually, straight hiring your individual brother, or father?
That’s simply insupportable sloppiness.
Has everybody forgotten Rule 1 of the hackerama? You don’t rent your individual family members, interval.
What you do is, you get one other payroll patriot to rent your father/brother/girlfriend and many others. Then in return, you rent their vital different. You scratch my again…
As James Michael Curley used to say to his son Frank, when explaining to him why crooked folks like themselves ought to at all times use money and by no means, ever have a checking account:
“I shouldn’t even have to elucidate this to you…”
But right here we’re. I’ve to elucidate all of it, once more.
Let’s start with former Probate Decide Lawrence Military, Jr. He was one in every of many tragically horrible judicial appointees of ex-Gov. Charlie Baker. When Military was nominated in 2022, the standard nameless letters have been despatched to the Governor’s Council.
The “Involved Legal professionals of Worcester County” alleged that at his listening to, Military had made “materials misrepresentations and lies.” The Council didn’t care as a result of it’s, and has at all times been, because the aforementioned Gov. Curley as soon as stated, “a hock store.”
As quickly as he acquired onto the bench, Decide Military was presiding over a divorce case and needed to choose a Particular Grasp to deal with the sale of the marital dwelling. He ignored the listing of eligible legal professionals and made a really particular appointment to the $450-an-hour plum job.
Decide Lawrence F. Military Jr. appointed as Particular Grasp a lawyer by the identify of Lawrence F. Military Sr.
It was a nationwide search! And now Junior is an ex-judge.
Subsequent, let’s go to UMass, the place one other “ex” marks the spot. This time it’s an ex-associate provost named Heather Sharpes-Smith.
Notice that hyphenated final identify — as soon as upon a time, that alone can be sufficient to determine your wokeness and thus invulnerability from any form of disciplinary motion, not to mention having to work, at ZooMass.
However these days, it takes greater than a mere hyphenated final identify to determine your exalted standing on the totem pole of DEI intersectionality. Not checking practically sufficient woke containers, Sharpes-Smith was making a mere $154,531.41 a 12 months and going nowhere quick in hackademia.
Assume Elizabeth Warren earlier than she turned a pretend Indian.
The massive-money jobs at UMass now go to folks with first names like “Nefertiti,” who makes $443,456 a 12 months shelling out “fairness.” Finding out the ZooMass payroll, Heather should have despaired that she would ever earn as a lot as, say, Kumble Subbaswamy ($443,456 final 12 months) or Murugappan Muthukumar ($355,399).
So Ms. Heather Hyphenated Final Title determined to accept the type of crumbs out there to these in her downtrodden class.
She requested if she may rent a “man” for a brief job. The “man” was her brother, and I’ll guess that like Sis, he doesn’t have a very woke DEI identify.
Amazingly, regardless of his lack of recent hackademic credentials, Heather’s brother acquired the job — one other nationwide search! Should have been a part of the UMass affirmative-action program. Then he acquired employed to a everlasting job for $68,000, which at UMass is nothing, completely nothing.
However she’s now an ex-associate provost.
It’s not solely the unprotected courses which have misplaced the flexibility to correctly work the nepotism rackets. Tania Fernandes Anderson appeared to have every thing going for her — first unlawful alien African Muslim on welfare married to a first-degree assassin ever elected to the Boston Metropolis Council.
However she wasn’t content material to slurp on the trough. Tania needed to lick the plate. She employed her sister and her brother for big-money Metropolis Corridor hack sinecures and was fined $15,000 by the State Ethics Fee.
She went loopy. Didn’t the honkies know who she was?
“What the bleep do I’ve to do on this bleepin’ Council,” she screamed with cameras rolling, “in an effort to get respect as a black lady?”
This was earlier than she took the $7,000 in money kickbacks in a rest room at Metropolis Corridor… from one other relative. Now she’s going to jail — should be racism, proper?
Why didn’t Tania simply get one in every of her fellow Council wokesters to rent her shiftless, entitled kin? After which vice versa.
There are different methods to run this type of grift. How about these public-private partnerships? No stinkin’ State Ethics Fee (as toothless as it’s) trying over your shoulder then.
Contemplate the MassDOT secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt, who even after the $900-million Turnpike service-plaza scandal is in no hazard of shedding her job as a result of, nicely, you understand.
Regardless of her breathtaking incompetence, she makes $206,496 a 12 months. Earlier than the nationwide search by her very simpatico buddy the governor, the Ohio blow-in Monica was govt director of the 128 Enterprise Council, no matter that’s.
Would you care to guess who the “director of improvement” for the 128 Enterprise Council is now?
That will be a celebration named Lispeth Tibbits-Nutt, who simply occurs to be married to… you solely get one guess.
In response to her bio, Lispeth Tibbits-Nutt as soon as “labored in advocacy and coalition constructing” and in addition ran, as you might need guessed, a “neighborhood artwork gallery.”
After which got here the nationwide search. Come on down, Lispeth Tibbits-Nutt! The purpose is, the outdated methods can nonetheless work, with out “ex” marking the spot.
As James Michael Curley would say, I shouldn’t even need to be explaining this to anyone.
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