Jackson Jambalaya

I noticed city employees out painting better lines on the street downtown this morning. Already seeing improvements being made on the easy things.

Would somebody tell them to pave West St

me thinks Jackson could get better

Tip of the proverbial iceberg...

They got anyone named Big Meech on the payroll?

Its called overemployment, and whats the problem if an employee is able to work 2 jobs simultaneously and both employers are satisfied with the employees performance? An employer will fire you for no reason with no notice, so you have to look out for yourself.

Ooops!

At least they probably weren't using the city 'puters for their side gig.

Downtown? It has happened in state government before. A state agency had two IT workers who were working at Best Buy in Meridian, during the day for years before they got called out for it. Everyone at the state agency knew it too. No work was being done by the offenders at the state agency for years. However, the offenders were a protected demographic so it was all handled really quietly.

"The city verified the employment with the bank."

Could be there are two openings at the bank as well.

@9:56 SO MUCH THIS!
my colleagues waste 6 hours a day looking at social media on their phones while I am grinding and being productive. Why shouldn’t I earn more?

Will the IT department have enough help to load the punchcard decks into the card readers without these two?

9:56 - If you're doing your job, getting fired generally isn't a problem. You appear to have a criminal's mentality. Ever think that maybe they weren't getting anything done which lead the administration to investigate?

Where are the criminal charges

@10:10 I guess you have never been a middle manager who becomes the scapegoat for an incompetent or corrupt upper management.

Have you ever had someone well connected at a company just not like you before? Like maybe the boss’s kid? Yeah. You can generalize but there are hundreds of situations where you can be a good worker and lose your job.

This is IT. I can do 80% of my job remotely via Putty and Powershell. 10% remotely via RDP, and 10% requires me to physically visit onsite. We do this all day in the IT world. It is called an MSP and I manage 50 of my own clients all day every day of the week. The difference is I work for a company outside of Mississippi who pays me what I am worth.

Are David Archie & that other loser from the Poor Peoples Campaign (or wherever his wife works) still on the city payroll?

What's criminal about this? Both employers should have done their due diligence. You should study game theory.

I have posted multiple times during the crooked Chowke reign that there are many no-show employees. Are their supervisors and managers going to be held accountable for allowing this? And yes, when are these criminals going to be indicted? All of them!

The only city employee I seeing wiring daily is the meter ticket guy…he’s a crusty older guy but he’s there every day trying to make a dollar

Just thinking the same thing ! I would think the bank has or will terminate both these individuals also

Happening with certain county employees as well. This boondoggle has been a thing for many moons .

If you have a no show job with the city do you keep all your after tax pay or are there any additional 'payroll deductions' that you have to pay to keep getting paid?

Don’t give people FREE water,
Make the apartment complex owner pay the water bill as that must be part of the lease.

Some people here apparently don't understand the difference between employee and contractor.

If you are an employee, whoever is paying for your time owns that time.

If you are a contractor, you are paid for your work product. It also means you get to pay self-employment tax, which is not insignificant.

If you are employed by two employers at the same time, during the same time slots, you are a lying, crooked POS. It doesn't matter how well you can justify it to yourself.

"But everybody is doing it. It's the Mississippi way."

The two beggars at st dominics waved at me today

11:37 - Well said.

Thank heavens we finally have a mayor who isn’t afraid to kill a snake when he finds one. The people commenting in support of the double billers are rotten. The IT people rationalizing it need an ass whipping.

The jealous seething among the smooth brain people who couldn’t figure out how to work three jobs at the same time during Covid is hilarious. I’ve cut back to only two online jobs now. Neither employer can tell the difference. The only issue I ever had is when I get Teams Meetings scheduled for each company at the same time. I just figured out to keep them both muted and turn the camera off.

They need to paint High Street really bad!

County Line in front of the Hilton has no painted lanes whatsoever.

Seen this in action. Worked with a guy years ago where everyday he would be gone 10AM-2PM daily to go DJ at a local radio station here in Jackson. Finally got caught some time later. Can't make this stuff up.

"The jealous seething among the smooth brain people", what are you telling us, you have bumps on your brain to match the pimples on your face?

@1:54 No it means you are old and scared of what you don’t understand. It means you think everyone should live the way you did in 1975 when you could raise a family and buy a house with a factory job that paid $35k a year. And you think everyone should live young person should do the same. Except that world doesn’t exist anymore. And the generation that couldn’t even set the clock on the VCR is terrified at how younger people can earn more with technology and totally disrupt outdated systems.

Madison has missing street painted lines all over. Looking at you Pete Vozzo!

Mayor Horhn, can you make a city people want to move to? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

" And you think everyone should live young person should do the same.", have you been in your mama's stash, again?

Am I to assume you're talking to "Boomers", junior? I noticed a lot of attempted fearmongering in your frantic post. See that's one of the things you haven't learned, junior, "Boomers" ain't scared of shit.

We had to raise our own vegetables, kill, and clean, our own meat. We ain't afraid of what's around the corner, like your soy boy, man bun wearing, limp-wristed, latte drinking, ass. We have been around the corner, before you were a gleam in your daddy's eye. And we for sure ain't scared of no shit you fool with.

"What we do in life, echoes in eternity" Abraham Lincoln

4:15, Chill out man. Maybe you should spend some time over at the weed-bust post.

While I appreciate the accountability, the employees should not have been allowed to resign, they should have been fired for cause.

This is payroll fraud.,…Shad..Shad, must be out arresting someone stealing scrap iron

Whether you are 14, 44, or 104, if you willingly sell something to someone and they pay you for it as agreed, it now belongs to them. That includes your car, your "devices," and your time. If you are paid and do not deliver what you sold, you are at least guilty of civil conversion and possibly of criminal theft. If you know or even suspect you have to play games or do anything at all to avoid getting caught doing something, you know it is wrong to be doing it. As someone above pointed out, you can rationalize it but you cannot "unknow" you are wrong for doing that thing. You might never get caught, you might get caught and suffer dire financial consequences, or you might wind up in jail. The jails and prisons are full of dumbfucks who were sure they were not going to get caught. Oh, well, you're probably the smartest thief ever, so sleep easy, sleep easy...

@ 10:01 - If your post is legit, the employee of a state agency who had another job, both having concurrent hours, is guilty of defrauding the PERS system.

Dragos is full of City of Jackson vehicles at all hours of the day. Ain't no painted lines needed.