Word: supervisoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks before Christmas: two little girls were singing "Good Ship Lollipop" in unison, while others helped arrange chairs for the public performance, intermittently banging on the piano. One of the former inhabitants retains such close ties that upon growing up he moved next door, and now works as the supervisor of maintenance and construction...
After Hirsh returned, the university installed a new supervisor to write reports only on Hirsh and Schiffer, denied Hirsh and Schiffer access to the infirmary and refused to permit them to "go to the john except for lunch and break time," Schiffer said...
...bureaucracy is often more of a hindrance than a help. "Managers feel they are so enmeshed in red tape that they cannot manage any more," says Jule Sugarman, vice chairman of the Civil Service Commission. Aside from directing an employee to the nearest coffeepot, there is little that a supervisor can do without encountering some cumbersome regulation. The 18 General Schedule (GS) grades of the civil service are largely insulated from outside pressure. An employee gets automatic pay increases just by remaining on the job. Additional raises are supposed to be based on merit; if so, the Federal Government...
...worker is turned down for a raise, he must be given a less than satisfactory rating for his work, a move that any supervisor contemplates with foreboding. The supervisor is compelled to give the offending employee 90 days' notice before he issues the bad grade. During this time, the employee is able to build up a substantial defense. He can then make a series of appeals with full-dress hearings that can drag on for months. Understandably, managers prefer to give everybody a passing grade in order to avoid the hassle...
...director gave him an envelope containing Passman's "taxi fare"?$10,000 in cash. Investigators do not yet have corroboration of the payments, but there is evidence that Flood and Passman pressured AID on behalf of Airlie. Former AID Official Jarold A. Kieffer wrote to his supervisor and to President Gerald Ford protesting Passman's pressure; an earlier letter from Kieffer to AID'S former deputy administrator John Murphy complained: "It does not matter who the Congressman is, or what his power over us may be, some things are just wrong, and his coercion and demands in this case...