(Hit on letter to read it).Not bad, he said that Alvarez's staff members should ask to be respected when treated with disrespect. What about us Bruno? Can the public do that too! Letter looks like an olive branch with thorns....
Friday, August 17, 2007
Bruno Barreiro strikes back to boycott for politeness. By Geniusofdespar
(Hit on letter to read it).Not bad, he said that Alvarez's staff members should ask to be respected when treated with disrespect. What about us Bruno? Can the public do that too! Letter looks like an olive branch with thorns....
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Sorry, I did not get my request from the BCC to be treated with request so I guess I can disrespect them.
What is that motto, Delivering Excellence, when???
The strong mayor has still got them fired up, the budget has to be reduced, Alvarez has done his part. I await the BCC wisdom, in keeping with the paragraph 1 theme, it looks like I have to wait for a new BCC for the wisdom aspect.
Regardless of what people might say about Bruno, he is a good person, and does treat people with respect.
Too bad none of the other commissioners respect him. They manipulated him into the chairmanship because he is maliable and can be taken advantage of. Seijas and Martinez are really running the show.
The "good" commissioners, who have brains, are marginalized by the rest. Sorneson is marginalized by her predictable ultra left wing whinning, and the others look at Gimenez, like "who do you think you are? Do you think you're smarter than us?"
Well he is. And like crabs in a bucket, when one tries to climb out, the others all get together and pull him back down.
Politeness from a Parliament of Whores? Poke me and I'll let my breath out
Thankfully, Barreiro is showing adult-like behavior. The boycott is silly and immature. The mayor could have released a statement that he is concerned about respect first without resorting to a boycott of the meeting. Not sure what happened at the Aviation Committee meeting, but the BCC has legitimate concerns about Alvarez's abolition of the Communication Department (which they use, too).
County Department Directors and CMO Staff are among the highest paid government employees in the nation. They should be prepared to answer difficult questions about their proposed budgets.
Gimenez is definitely not smarter than the others. He may have the biggest chip on his shoulder though. As someone who previously served in local government adminstration, you would think he would be more empathetic and supportive of staff than his colleagues. Instead, he is excessively negative and treats staff with more disrespect than even Seijas.
My buddies and I have developed a drinking game around Gimenez's diatribes from the dais. As many of you have probably noticed, he has the peculiar habit of ending all of his sentences with word "okay" as he arrogantly lectures county staff. It's as if he lacks confidence in what he is saying or is accustomed to having his comments dismissed as the annoying rants of a pompous windbag.
Our drinking game involves taking a swig every time our favorite commissioner says the word "okay." When he starts getting red in the face and pointing his finger, we know that we will be bending our elbows more than a few times. Needless to say, we all get smashed in very short order. Thanks, Carlos.
“Disrespect” is not a verb…
“I encourage that you empower staff to ask the...” “it is they who are disrespecting the board…”
...Oy
A dicier challenge to manners is pointing out the incorrect usage of English in public settings. (Even in school board meetings when the focus is “FCAT”) It’s one thing to play fast and lose in a blog (PS “it’s” is not possessive), it’s another to see official letter head stationary above such errors.
“S”
I am not a real reporter. Don't look at my English, I narrowly passed the journalism test FIU gives its students.
"S" is incorrect. Disrespect can certainly be a verb and "disrespecting" was used properly by Genius of Despair. See any dictionary, including the
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
P.S. The Carlos Gimenez drinking game is hilarious.
Very good, okay? Bottom's up Bluto
wait a minute, I didn't invent or use the word disrespected I just copied it out of Bruno's damn letter. Where is this "S" anyway.
I so like his drinking game, but I have had a different one for years and years.... Whenever one of them says "this is a democracy" you drink one shot (Souto and Sosa are both good for this one) and whenever they preach that Miami is (or will soon be) a "World Class" whatever, you drink two shots. Takes some of the pain out of watching all the sanctimonious windbags pontificate.
Yo,
Correction: “Fast and loose” not “fast and lose.”
The Oxford English dictionary places the usage of “disrespect” as a transitive verb between 1614 and 1852. Its colloquial use today is associated with ghetto rap.
From dogpile (what a source) “The hip-hop subculture has revived the use of “disrespect” as a verb. In the meaning to have or show disrespect, this usage has been long established, if unusual.”
This has now seeped into verbiage by presidents of both parties and apparently our own local government.
Oy.
S
Yo!... cont.
And from Common Errors in English, by Paul Brains
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
“The hip-hop subculture has revived the use of “disrespect” as a verb. In the meaning to have or show disrespect, this usage has been long established, if unusual. However, the new street meaning of the term, ordinarily abbreviated to “dis,” is slightly but significantly different: to act disrespectfully, or—more frequently—insultingly toward someone. In some neighborhoods “dissing” is defined as merely failing to show sufficient terror in the face of intimidation. In those neighborhoods, it is wise to know how the term is used; but an applicant for a job who complains about having been “disrespected” elsewhere is likely to incur further disrespect . . . and no job. Street slang has its uses, but this is one instance that has not become generally accepted.”
S
PS. “in syntax, a transitive verb is a verb that requires both a subject and one or more objects.” (wik.)
I guess S doesn't like to admit he is wrong. Every dictionary I have seen has "disrespect" as a verb. Elitists S and Paul Brains may not like it, but our language evolves. And "disrepect" was being used as a verb long before the hip hop generation. The use of "disrespect" as a verb may not be generally accepted by S and Paul Brains, but it is generally accepted by everyone else.
P.S. I sensed a racist edge to Paul Brains' commentary.
Cristina:
Odds are you are a staff mole. I wouldn't say Gimenez is necessarily smarter than the rest, but if you know anything about how he operates now and when he was City of Miami Manager, and Fire Chief before that, his policy is always to be open and to answer all questions directed to him fully.
County staff, however, has created a culture of responding to Commission questions with misleading, often cryptic questions that highlights their lack of respect for our elected officials. At the end of the day, they have themselves to blame. House of Lies, Biotech, all of these issues are issues largely because of the failures of staff to implement policy. The Commission failed in their oversight capacity, but, even on the biotech deal, crucial information on the personal guarantee for the primary developer was fabricated by staff to result in a favorable outcome at the BCC. Gimenez, and others, have given staff the benefit of the doubt, only to be burned in the process.
Hard questions need to be asked, and staff is paid to answer them. The remainder of this conversation is irrelevant, but makes for interesting blog discussion, I would admit.
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