This is the famous customer service of Rob Ford. Can other candidates match it?

[boodog]

Rob Ford is in the groove

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/08/30/rob-ford-is-in-the-groove

When organizers of the Jesus in the City parade got the call last week from City of Toronto staff that because of road work, the permit for their event was being pulled, it didn’t take long for Mayor Rob Ford to spring into action.

Staff said they were unable to offer an alternative route for the event and, with allegations of religious discrimination in the air, Ford came to the rescue and the parade is back on.

This is the Ford voters in 2010 knew and trusted.

The man who earned a reputation for customer service after nearly 10 years as a city councillor, getting solutions to problems — large and small — for taxpayers not just in his Etobicoke ward, but right across the city.

This will play well for Ford in his bizarre run for re-election.

With recent polling showing him hot on frontrunner John Tory’s heels, and with a smaller pool of voters now wanting him to resign, Ford is very much in the hunt for a second term.



DO YOU AGREE?

 

[Anbarandy]

When Deco Labels 'n Tags needed expedited work to be done The Flash, Rob Fraud insured Deco was put at the top of the list.

When Apollo a client of Deco required same, The Flash dashed into action to place them at the top of the list.

When Muzik needed favors from Ford, The Flash thrashed into action.

When Connolly a business partner of Deco needed favors from the Fords, the Two Flashes crashed into the city purchasing offices.

So yes, I agree.

 

[Anbarandy]

Other noteworthy Fraudian achievements in customer service:

When Fraud's boyhood 'fiend' David Price needed a job not only did the fabulous fraudster assist him, he also gave him a job in his taxpayer funded, mayor's office at twice the salary of other staffers to go fetch liquor, drugs, light bulbs, KFC and search for that damned crack video.

When The Fraud ousted the board of TCHC before their contracts were up, not only did he raid the taxpayer's till to get rid of 'em, he also installed some of his loyal campaign team members into TCHC positions that they were certainly not qualified for.

When former university football players were looking for jobs in civic government The Fraud hired them to run his football programs at taxpayer's expense.

When longtime 'fiend' Sandro Lisi was looking to make some dough dealing drugs, well you know what Fraudie did to help him.

 

[oldjones]

When it takes the Mayor's personal intervention to get a routine permit issued, you know there's been no effective administrative oversight or leadership at City Hall for a long time.

So far no one has produced a shred of evidence any of those calls Rob boasts of spending his time on couldn't have been handled by ordinary swivel servants doing their daily work. A real Mayor would be making sure there was the staff, with what they needed to do their work, not doing it for them.

 

[Butler1000]

When it takes the Mayor's personal intervention to get a routine permit issued, you know there's been no effective administrative oversight or leadership at City Hall for a long time.

So far no one has produced a shred of evidence any of those calls Rob boasts of spending his time on couldn't have been handled by ordinary swivel servants doing their daily work. A real Mayor would be making sure there was the staff, with what they needed to do their work, not doing it for them.

Hang on a second there Oj. They already did have the necessary permits. They were cancelled at the last minute by those lower level bureaucrats you say could have done.

I'm no fan of him anymore, but he did the right thing there. Credit where credit is due.

 

[Anbarandy]

When Deco Labels 'n Tags needed expedited work to be done The Flash, Rob Fraud insured Deco was put at the top of the list.

When Apollo a client of Deco required same, The Flash dashed into action to place them at the top of the list.

When Muzik needed favors from Ford, The Flash thrashed into action.

When Connolly a business partner of Deco needed favors from the Fords, the Two Flashes crashed into the city purchasing offices.

So yes, I agree.

Other noteworthy Fraudian achievements in customer service:

When Fraud's boyhood 'fiend' David Price needed a job not only did the fabulous fraudster assist him, he also gave him a job in his taxpayer funded, mayor's office at twice the salary of other staffers to go fetch liquor, drugs, light bulbs, KFC and search for that damned crack video.

When The Fraud ousted the board of TCHC before their contracts were up, not only did he raid the taxpayer's till to get rid of 'em, he also installed some of his loyal campaign team members into TCHC positions that they were certainly not qualified for.

When former university football players were looking for jobs in civic government The Fraud hired them to run his football programs at taxpayer's expense.

When longtime 'fiend' Sandro Lisi was looking to make some dough dealing drugs, well you know what Fraudie did to help him.

I'm no fan of him anymore, but he did the right thing there. Credit where credit is due.

And he did the right thing there and there and there ......????

 

[destillat]

When it takes the Mayor's personal intervention to get a routine permit issued, you know there's been no effective administrative oversight or leadership at City Hall for a long time.

So far no one has produced a shred of evidence any of those calls Rob boasts of spending his time on couldn't have been handled by ordinary swivel servants doing their daily work. A real Mayor would be making sure there was the staff, with what they needed to do their work, not doing it for them.

Exactly.
My CIO doesn't walk around replacing keyboards... he makes sure the right people (at the appropriate pay scale) are there to do that.

What boodouche calls 'customer service', rational people would call 'inappropriately allocated resources, and poor time/task management'.

 

[groggy]

Exactly.
My CIO doesn't walk around replacing keyboards... he makes sure the right people (at the appropriate pay scale) are there to do that.

What boodouche calls 'customer service', rational people would call 'inappropriately allocated resources, and poor time/task management'.

Agreed.

The famous Rob Ford customer service is suited to manning the 311 phone service or a job at a fast food sandwich place where he happily can produce 'subways, subways, subways.'

We pay the big bucks for someone to run city council, make good long term policy decisions for the whole city, not on his driving routes. If he wants to answer each and every 311 call we should give him a job in that office, if he could keep full business hours and not disappear to go drinking in parks.

 

[fuji]

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My CIO doesn't walk around replacing keyboards... he makes sure the right people (at the appropriate pay scale) are there to do that.

Where I work managers are encouraged to deep dive now and then just to make sure that they understand how things work and to keep people on the ball. So while the CIO shouldn't be replacing keyboards in general, he might be well advised to check a few desks at random to see that everything is in working order and if he finds keyboards that don't work he can then have a difficult conversation with the guy who was supposed to be on that.

But in general I agree with you, managers have to delegate, delegating is actually what it means to be a manager.

 

[Butler1000]

And he did the right thing there and there and there ......????

Obviously not. But he did do the right thing on this. Credit where credit is due.

 

[oldjones]

Hang on a second there Oj. They already did have the necessary permits. They were cancelled at the last minute by those lower level bureaucrats you say could have done.

I'm no fan of him anymore, but he did the right thing there. Credit where credit is due.

Routine permits should be issued routinely by ordinary functionaries; the CEO of the City has had four years—less all the time spent in drunken stupors he can't recall—to see that routine City business is done properly and efficiently. It didn't take Henry Ford's personal intervention to get a Model T's squeaky wheel greased and he was just a jumped up bicycle mechanic, not a guy born and raised by his family to entitled command in politics and business like Our Rob.

If there had been the slightest evidence of the most elementary attention to doing his job responsibly—oh say, like keeping an itinerary so his expensive, tax-paid staff knew where he was and when he might be back in the office—you'd have a good point. But with Rob, every little bit of competent low-level work was a Special Event. LIke this self-promotion for managing an entry-level clerk's job.

 

[groggy]

Ford's released his plan to build more subways.
With exactly the same kind of financing he proposed for the Shepard subway, as in, 'someone else will pay for it'.
He's promising no tax increases and ignoring the 30 tax increase he already gave us for Scarborough, should it happen.

He's back to his 2010 promises, except bigger and more fantasy.
Will boodog et al buy into this fantasy?

 

[Anbarandy]

Ford's released his plan to build more subways.
With exactly the same kind of financing he proposed for the Shepard subway, as in, 'someone else will pay for it'.
He's promising no tax increases and ignoring the 30 tax increase he already gave us for Scarborough, should it happen.

He's back to his 2010 promises, except bigger and more fantasy.
Will boodog et al buy into this fantasy?

Fraud is now promising $9billion worth of subways 'for free'.

Whereas Johnny-boy has ONLY promised +$2.8billion worth of choo-choo trains for free.

May as well vote for Ford because he is promising 'more FREE stuff' than is the StoryTeller.

Enemas will be paid for by both Ford and Tory should you digest their nonsense.

 

[5hummer]

He's back to his 2010 promises, except bigger and more fantasy.
Will boodog et al buy into this fantasy?

All it takes is a free hot dog + pop .... :thumb:

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_ha...sit_falsehoods_waste_valuable_time_james.html

 

[oldjones]

Another thread in this form that boo started on this same topic (no doubt for the joy of seeing Rob's name in red headlines that say nothing about drugs or misbehaviour) makes it very clear that ordinary and proper safety and traffic concerns led to the cancellation of the original permit, and similar out-of-the-ordinary efforts by all parties, police, City Hall, sponsors and their supporters worked out an alternative solution. It illustrates how many aspects of City operations are affected, and how many issues and items have to be thought through and put in place by many knowledgable and hard-working people, public and private.

The Mayor offered encouragement.

It seems some think that's a Big Deal. I suppose when a lying, drunkard, accused wife-eater and drug-abusing criminal comes even that tiny step to Jesus one might see it that way. Not me, not when any real steps towards an ordinary standard of good behaviour—like telling the truth—still lie ahead.

 

[groggy]

Today's Ford news.

subpoena

 

[boodog]

Today's Ford news.

subpoena

This is OLD story being recycled for what purposes. The media is supposed to be unbiased so how many times to they gave to reprint the same old story during an election campaign. Toronto citizen residents are well aware of the fact that majority of the media do not support Ford.

 

[groggy]

This is OLD story being recycled for what purposes. The media is supposed to be unbiased so how many times to they gave to reprint the same old story during an election campaign. Toronto citizen residents are well aware of the fact that majority of the media do not support Ford.

The news is that he will finally have to answer questions on oath that he's refused to answer for over a year.

 

[oldjones]

This is OLD story being recycled for what purposes. The media is supposed to be unbiased so how many times to they gave to reprint the same old story during an election campaign. Toronto citizen residents are well aware of the fact that majority of the media do not support Ford.

Which former century are you visiting from,m that you imagine the media is 'supposed to be unbiased'. Does The Sun know? The National Post?

Perhaps you're too wet back of the ears to have heard of hippie stuff like New Journalism but objectivity isn't "supposed" by any but the naive these days. Nor has Rob done anything but apologize for and admit to lying. The biassed media have printed only undisputed facts.

 

[destillat]

This is OLD story being recycled for what purposes. The media is supposed to be unbiased so how many times to they gave to reprint the same old story during an election campaign. Toronto citizen residents are well aware of the fact that majority of the media do not support Ford.

Now you are copy and pasting user comments from the Toronto Star website???