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CUPE_Reformer
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posted 04 October 2005 12:31 PM

"The Mayor has been besieged with questions about allegations several key players at the Municipal Licensing and Standards Department failed to post jobs and gave them to friends and relatives instead."

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"But when CityNews asked the municipal workers who keep the wheels of government turning behind the scenes for their examples of cronyism and nepotism at City Hall, we were inundated with emailed examples."

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[ 04 October 2005: Message edited by: CUPE_Reformer ]

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Michelle
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posted 04 October 2005 12:33 PM

Those links don't work. But I think this thread is about the same situation anyhow, isn't it?

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CUPE_Reformer
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posted 04 October 2005 12:40 PM

Originally posted by Michelle

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Those links don't work. But I think this thread is about the same situation anyhow, isn't it?

Michelle:

The links work now. The other thread (Pam Cobourn admits to sexual relationship) is about working women and office romances.

[ 04 October 2005: Message edited by: CUPE_Reformer ]

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Michelle
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posted 04 October 2005 12:42 PM

Actually, no it's not. It's about Pam Coburn, one of the people who were suspended with pay, over this whole scandal. Her office romance (and the fact that the guy she was sleeping with got a job that way) was one example of the nepotism happening at Toronto City Hall.

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No Yards
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posted 04 October 2005 12:47 PM

Well, ok, this is just my impression, but whenever I go to 112 Elizabeth (Toronto business Licensing) I get the distinct feeling that I walked into the home for "retired strippers".

My guess is that since all adult entertainment licenses are granted at this office, they have a kind of advantage when it comes to "an in" with the management.

Not that I have a problem with the people who use this service most having first dibs at working there. If you're job is to provide licenses to certain businesses, then it would follow that being a former "licensed business" would count as a qualification for the position.

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skdadl
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posted 04 October 2005 12:48 PM

Hee. Half-tempted to start a thread about "working women and their office romances."

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charlieM
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posted 04 October 2005 11:07 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by CUPE_Reformer:
[QB]"The Mayor has been besieged with questions about allegations several key players at the Municipal Licensing and Standards Department failed to post jobs and gave them to friends and relatives instead."

OH MY GOSH!?
That happens? I never would have thought!

Well, i guess that explains why people with relatives who work for the city tend to have an esaier time getting a job with it....

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