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State trains man for job, then takes it away

    Every day there are articles about how bad the economy is in New York state and the cuts that are needed. I have one example of how they waste money.
    Last spring my son submitted numerous applications for jobs in the private sector. He was hired for one of them.
    Later he was contacted by New York State Department of Transportation [DOT], interviewed and hired. He gave up his initial job and health insurance. He was advised during orientation that he would have two weeks to practice driving a DOT dump truck and would then have to take a driving test.
    After eight days on the job and only 4.5 days’ actual practice driving a truck with a snowplow and wing, he was tested with these attached. He was told that his driving skills were good, but he "ground the gears" once or twice and he was being let go. They paid him for the days he worked, five days vacation, $100 for a pair of work boots, a physical and a drug test, another driver to ride with him, the gas — and now he is on unemployment with no health insurance! This will end up costing the state upward of $10,000.
    We wrote letters to Assemblyman George Amedore, Danny Donohue, president of CSEA [Civil Service Employees Association] Albany, Paul Obernesser from DOT Utica, Paul Unczur of DOT Fonda, Brian Moore of CSEA Utica, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli — and have heard nothing from any of them.
    Everyone said GM and Chrysler were too big to fail! Maybe the state should look at its hiring practices and the money it wastes on employees it has no intention of keeping.

    ANDREW ASKEW
    Gloversville

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DOT must have got a call from a higher up that the job was promised to someone else.

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DOT must have got a call from a higher up that the job was promised to someone else.

That is probably a fact.....