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Jack Leutza's Managerial and Leadership Skills Sent: April 17, 2003. What
Now?! April 17, 2003 President
Michael Peevey Dear President Peevey: I suppose my first question would be, since you and this management team feel the need to “grade” our work, why then aren’t we accorded the same favor and allowed to state how we feel our supervisors do their job. If we could, I’m quite sure Mr. Jack Leutza would not score very high. In the 3 years that I was under his supervision, I came to view Jack as someone who would not lift a finger for his staff, and that any and all decisions were either based on what’s good for Jack, or the easiest way out. I started off working out of class for Telecom, doing the work of a PT III, while being paid as a secretary. This was a result of Leticia Rameriz leaving and they had not yet filled that slot. I was assured that a PT III interview was “just around the corner”. After 2 years they did give a “test”. It was a T&D test, which I did not learn about until the job was given to Pamela Mullick, a close friend of Ms. Angel Asham, who just happens to be Jack’s assistant. Not said, of course, was that after 6 months I could have gone to my union about working out of class, since you can’t force someone to do that for over a year, and they’d have had to upgrade me at that point, thus rendering Ms. Mullicks hiring mute. I approached management regarding this issue, and after about 5 minutes it seemed that they were blaming me for not saying anything sooner, which, of course, is total BS, since I’d been “assured” something was “just around the corner”. I just didn’t know it was Pamela Mullick who was around that corner, and that she’d get a T&D on a job I’d been doing for over 2 years working out of class…after she imploded at her job, they again gave a test, and this time, after finishing 2nd the previous time, I finished about 9th, thus assuring I would not be upgraded that time as well. I believe that this is based on personal issues and not anything to do with my performance, because when I left I was deluged by people for whom I’d been their contact during my time in Telecom, and each stated what a good job I’d done, with several sending personal thanks via email Jack didn’t like me, for whatever reasons, and I suffered for his prejudice by being ignored and lied to…I seriously doubt Jack knew what I did, as he doesn’t seem to really care what anyone does as long as it’s not coming back at him…it’s your problem until you MAKE it his. After I’d gone and asked out because I can’t work for dishonest people, I was told I’d go to Consumer on a T&D. Since they’d just offered me that, I assumed there’d be no problems, yet somehow the whole thing blew up and I was not allowed to go there, instead being forced to inspect payphones. Mike McNamara had told me not 2 days before that my transfer was “imminent”. Yet after I complained about them changing the system without notifying us, the users, I suddenly no longer had that transfer…and it’s not that big a leap to see Jack screwing me Over again, simply because somebody put him in a position he’s woefully unequipped to handle This is what Jack Leutza is. A liar and a yes man. Not a single time I spoke with Jack did I feel he was being honest with me. When asked why they hadn’t taken care of me after I’d become eligible to be up-graded to a PT III, I was never given an answer. I was simply allowed at that point to file a grievance regarding my working out of class. The point missed, of course, was that this was made necessary by Leutza himself, and I never did recoup all the $$ I lost as a result of his lying and trying to cheat me by looking good to his superiors by keeping his budget down. (yet, one wonders, do folks like you think when you see this type behavior…is it supportive, or do you do the right thing?…and there’s the rub, because as a worker, I think I know the real answer all ready, so writing this seems so pointless, and isn’t that a shame?!). Take a look at the job he does not considering my complaints…how does he keep his job when the tariff room is in shambles (in fact, they have no tariffs anymore, even though I believe the law still states you should), the advice letters are back-logged until who knows when, and it now takes 3 people to do the job I did by myself. His direct-line supervisors of Dick Fish and Mike McNamara are spine-less men who’d rather just put up with his indecision’s than try and change anything. I can honestly say that both men have lied to my face, although I’m not sure if they were repeating what Jack said to say, or simply being jerks on their own. But why take my word for it….ASK anyone down there their opinion of Jack, or Dick Fish…I think if your actually interested in improving employee relations, you’d have both replaced, because neither man should be in charge of digging a sump hole, let alone supervising people…THEY HAVE NO PEOPLE SKILLS, and shouldn’t that be a requirement of being a supervisor??!!…most would say yes. There it is…do what you will, but again, I left that dept. because I won’t work for liars, and that’s exactly what they are…no sugar coating, just the honest truth. (End) Submitted for staff by Yaya Fanusie, Publisher of What Now?! Cc:
Bill Ahern, Executive Director |