Hawaii bureaucrats kept inept employee who warned of incoming nukes
The Associated Press reports that the Hawaii state employee who falsely warned of inbound nuclear missiles a few weeks back, had a history of making similar errors, but the bureaucrats kept him in the position…until, you know, they were embarrassed nationally;
The worker had mistakenly believed drills for tsunami and fire warnings were actual events, and colleagues were not comfortable working with him, the state said Tuesday. His supervisors counseled him but kept him for a decade in a position that had to be renewed each year…Hawaii Emergency Management Agency Administrator Vern Miyagi resigned as the reports were released. Officials revealed that the employee who sent the alert was fired Friday. His name has not been revealed. A second worker quit before disciplinary action was taken, and another was being suspended without pay, officials said.
Yeah, the problem could have been avoided the first time it happened, but it ended up costing four people their jobs. That’ll teach ’em /sarc.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
Damn… handled like a bad public school teacher.
^^^THIS^^^
Was he retarded? Seriously.
I once had a firefighter who had me asking the same question. Fucker was untrainable, untrustworthy, literally dangerous on any kind of incident, and had a personality that made everyone hate him within fifteen seconds of meeting him. This guy was in fact the only subordinate I’ve ever had that pushed me so far over the edge of sanity that I just completely lost my shit and started screaming profanity at him.
Final conclusion: he ain’t retarded, he’s fucking cancer.
Fire hose practice target?
Had a kid like that, literally couldn’t do shit unsupervised. He was in the process of getting the boot, so his only job was to follow me everywhere I went like Woodstock follows Snoopy. Had a civilian contractor doing some work in the office, she talked to the kid for 10minutes, looks at me and says “D, this kid has Asperger’s”. Had him tested. Bingo. Kid made it all the way to my unit and never should’ve made it past the recruiter.
Unfortunately this guy had no such excuse, or else he probably would have brought it up during his multiple disciplinary proceedings. Hell, given that he’s also a pathological liar, I’m a bit surprised he didn’t try to claim it anyway.
Stationed in Hawaii twice. Stayed after retirement to become a Honolulu cop.
Not surprised in the least.
Da kine brudda.
Just as bad as having to deal with the LDS (Mormons) at Dugway Proving Ground when it came to incompetence. Probably related to someone.
Same MC. Stationed there and after getting out married a local, worked for the post office there for 12 years. Family connections in state/city&county jobs is everything, with nationality pulling second.
I will visit Guam and the Marshall Islands before I ever go to Hawaii.
You got a death wish?
Phillipines. Seriously.
Spent 13 years of my career in Hawaii, over a 30 year span. The Pineapple Mafia runs state, federal civil service and the Hawaii Air National Guard. He’ll find a new home soon.
Exactly….if I had a nickel for all the nepotism I saw there that allowed dipshits like that to hold jobs…
I looked into HECO/MECO jobs for my trade.
Not only were they paying a pathetic wage (think 40 percent below mainland wages) it was almost impossible to get anyone to call, even with my certifications, etc.
And they wonder why power sucks there.
Mr. Miyagi should have stuck to “wax on, wax off”.
Typical of bureaucrats everywhere, but most pronounced, I fear, among those who are among the (D)im-witted.
I wouldn’t let this dipshit be a school crossing guard! What a moroon!
I wonder which one of the four sent the message “exercise, exercise, exercise” then in the same message stated “this is not a drill”.
And which one is the Einstein button pusher who could not figure out whether it was real world or an exercise.
It’s just very fortunate that no one died because of this.
Ummm… Someone did
I’m sorry…I didn’t know. My bad.
We have them a lot of them here in the PDRofMA, they’re usually hack family members or coatholders of someone in power who needed a job but were in no way qualified for the one they were holding. Once they get in the system they’re like cockroaches.
I wonder who the employees was related to that guaranteed that he was rehired year after year?
Our adversaries continue to learn, and adapt.
not to mention the password written on a Post-It note. Bonus.
Hey, Samoans that were Affirmative Action hires need jobs too ya know.
No one is totally useless. He serves as an example of qualities not to look for when handling state wide messages. He is however an example of the qualities that you look for when you want to make sure the “all clear” is really all clear.
Nobody is totally useless, human organs go for big money on the black market!
“But, but, but…he’s my cousin, Brudda. Cut him some slack.”
Oh, yeah! The “Braddah Factor”!
One time we had a guy who committed “terroristic threatening” against his girlfriend’s parents. Had a machete and said he was going to carve them, etc, etc.
The responding officer was a friend of his and refused to make the case.
So, the “haole” boy cops took care of business.
Ridiculous. Big reason why I left the islands.
Heck, for all we know, the guy is illiterate. A product of the Hawaii school system.
As a cop, I can’t the number of times I had to get written statements from teens and the result was incomprehensible. Pidgin written down.
Another guy, an adult, asked me once to write the statement for him. “You know, I went to school in Hawaii.” As if I would understand what that meant (I did).
Such was life on the Waianae coast.
“I can’t the number of times…” should read “I can’t count the number of times…”
Guess I need to go back to school for remedial English myself!
No brah. We cool.
Read the comments from those who’ve been to the 50th state, I’m wondering why in the world we let that 3rd-world nation become a state. Can we get it reverted to a territory?
When I went back to Hawaii for my second tour, I was checking into Housing and the clerk, a local woman, noticed that I had been stationed there back in the 80s.
“Oh, I see you were stationed here before….And you came BACK?’
I laughed, but she was serious.
A foreshadowing of my experiences there.
You know traffic was bad when you could walk from Subase to Pearlridge faster than you could drive.
Oh, yeahhhh!
Never understood how or why Hawaii had “interstate” highways
That’s a headscratcher…
Brain sploder.
This is what I thought of when I read that the guy had been kept on for years:
Ha-vah-ee, land of pidgin and Spam, is as much of an abyss as the west coast, at least western part of each state.
I do not normally watch 60 Minutes but I did watch their coverage of Portland and found it nauseating.
There is no longer any resemblance of the Portland I left when I entered the Navy. It is all gone
TYPICAL Hawaii thing to happen. No can fire Da Kine over da kine problem, yah.
Generally speaking, their work ethics SUCK.
You cannot get anyone on the phone on a Friday afternoon at a local govt. office !
3 years active duty Schofield Barracks [Wolfhounds! c-4/27]
8+ years Federal Bureau of Prisons.
It’s Aloha Friday, Cuz!