Deputy Director of DC Dept of Bldgs Resigns after being found working multiple jobs

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Alexandria and many DC employees who are supposed to live in the city own homes here and double up on cheap rentals in DC so that they will have a DC address.

There are no cheap rentals in DC dummy.

The DCUM elitism nevers fails to amuse. Many in Berry Farms, Deanwood, Anacostia, Congress. I suppose you also don't know that there are cheap rentals in Crystal City where members of Congress live during the week with one or two others so that they have quick access to National Airport to return to their districts.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, she is probably a better than the average employee and contributes more than most DC government employees. People that can effectively manage multiple jobs like this usually are high performing at all of them. DC has a weird hiring system that limits most jobs to DC residents which limits the talent pool and reduce the average quality of employees.

You must be Asian too. Sorry - but no. If that photo had been of a Black person, you would have NEVER made this comment and you know it. Get out of here with that bulls*it.

In the DC government graft, grift and corruption are pervasive and color blind. And the fish rots from the head down.

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Anonymous wrote:Lian resigned from the Falls Church City Council on Thursday, and city officials relayed information to the commonwealth’s attorney for investigation, a city spokeswoman told News4.

The Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney tells News4 her office is working with local law enforcement to investigate the matter.

Falls Church officials reviewed Lian’s most recent annual financial disclosure.

“Upon review, the City discovered that the former council member listed only Freddie Mac as her employer and did not disclose her employment relationship with the District of Columbia,” the Falls Church spokeswoman said in a statement.

Lian was the second-highest-ranking official in D.C.’s Department of Buildings and earned $175,000 per year. According to a disposition issued by the D.C. Board of Ethics and signed by Lian, she also earned a six-figure salary while working full-time for Freddie Mac.

Ohhh, that might be a little too close to the bone for Arlington's Dehghani-Tafti.

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Anonymous wrote:Did she have a gambling problem or something? Why would you need to have three jobs, unless they are all minimum wage?

Who doesn't want more money? I mean she pulled it off probably knowing how the Dc government works; incompetent. I wonder how all of this came about. How did she manage her meetings. Being a Deputy Director, your daily duties consist of meetings to meetings for the most part.

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Why in the world did she raise her profile by being on FCC council?? Doubt this would have made the news if she was just rando employee

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Anonymous wrote:Why in the world did she raise her profile by being on FCC council?? Doubt this would have made the news if she was just rando employee

That was the really dumb move. She lied on the conflict of interest and financial disclosure forms for her position on the council. That now provides the Attorney of the Commonwealth the nexus to go after her.

Tbh, she sounds like an insufferable striver.

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Anonymous wrote:Why in the world did she raise her profile by being on FCC council?? Doubt this would have made the news if she was just rando employee

That was the really dumb move. She lied on the conflict of interest and financial disclosure forms for her position on the council. That now provides the Attorney of the Commonwealth the nexus to go after her.

Tbh, she sounds like an insufferable striver.

This. And actually having worked at DOB, I am really surprised she could do this. They are literally in meetings back to back most days. What exactly was she doing and how come her boss, the Director, did not pick up on this?

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Dc Govt is pretty disorganized and stupid in these things. There are a lot of corruption in DC Givt

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The shocking part is that DC allows its workers to work another job as long as they disclose and it doesn’t interfere — that explains why they never do anything other than steal trend checks.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, she is probably a better than the average employee and contributes more than most DC government employees. People that can effectively manage multiple jobs like this usually are high performing at all of them. DC has a weird hiring system that limits most jobs to DC residents which limits the talent pool and reduce the average quality of employees.

Nobody can be competent in two 40/hr week jobs. She probably dialed it in for the DC job.

These weren't real jobs. Working for the government is basically sleepwalking.

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Anonymous wrote:The shocking part is that DC allows its workers to work another job as long as they disclose and it doesn’t interfere — that explains why they never do anything other than steal trend checks.

No, they don't. Not sure where you got this. They specifically don't. Not a full time job.

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, why would someone do this? Who wants two jobs?! And this was so likely to get found out, I can’t believe she thought it would work.

One of those jobs clearly didn't require much time and attention.

Originally she was Chief Operating Officer before being promoted to Deputy Director. According to the Post there is no information on what she actually did as Deputy Director. At Freddie she was a risk management director.

The funniest part is that she was hired as the initial COO at DOB. The agency Bowser created to fix DCRA and takeover public building maintenance. In other words, it's the agency in charge of fixing the Wilson pool and maintaining school buildings along with construction permiting.

No, that’s DGS. DOB is in charge of residential permitting.

No, the DOB was a part of the DCRA break up.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see the problem. Was she getting the work done? If so, who cares? She was hustling and making a better life for herself. Everyone else can and should do the same. You don't give an enough work then why not get some side hustles? Good for her.

I don’t see the problem either. She wasn’t fired for doing a poor job. In fact, she was promoted to deputy director. None of her employers said she was not performing well.
I don’t care if you are doing 10 jobs as long as your are performing.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see the problem. Was she getting the work done? If so, who cares? She was hustling and making a better life for herself. Everyone else can and should do the same. You don't give an enough work then why not get some side hustles? Good for her.

I don’t see the problem either. She wasn’t fired for doing a poor job. In fact, she was promoted to deputy director. None of her employers said she was not performing well.
I don’t care if you are doing 10 jobs as long as your are performing.

But you specifically can’t do those other jobs when you are being paid to do a dc government job. She could do the other job at night but not at 2 pm on Tuesday when she is supposed to be working at DC.

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Anonymous wrote:I am surprised no one is talking about Ernest Chrappah who hired and promoted her. Some of his hires have made the news for the wrong reasons (e.g., ousted DLCP director Shirley Kwan-hui whose short tenure featured the barber/cosmetology board scandal and her residency at issue) while others need to have the competition for a post cleared out (e.g., DLCP GC Melanie Konstantopoulos, who DLCP gave the job to after three postings, with the third one being where she was the only candidate, finally).

None of us know who any of those people are. But, we would live to hear more about them.

I ‘ve heard about Shirley because it was in the news. But how come Melanie K. couldn’t get the job the first couple of times?