{"id":10509,"date":"2014-10-04T01:03:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T05:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=10509"},"modified":"2014-10-04T01:03:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T05:03:43","slug":"what-im-retiring-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/04\/what-im-retiring-today\/","title":{"rendered":"“What? I’m retiring today?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh yeah. I totally believe this one. Totally.<\/p>\n

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This City of Danville press release came out at 4:42 PM on Thursday. Yep, the time when bad things get shoved out to the media before spokesmen walk out of the office for the day.<\/p>\n

Danville announces retirement of utilities division director<\/strong><\/p>\n

City Manager Joe King announced today the retirement of Ken Ashworth as power and light division director for the Danville Utilities Department.<\/p>\n

Ashworth\u2019s retirement is effective Nov. 1. He will take leave until the effective day of his retirement.<\/p>\n

King said Jason Grey, interim director of the utilities department, will oversee the power and light division until an interim division director is named.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, isn’t that special. I don’t believe that Ken Ashworth willingly “retired” one damned bit. I think his head was the first to be chopped in the overtime scandal.<\/p>\n

Regular retirements of city workers either get a flourishing five paragraph celebration of all they’ve done while working for the city, or they get nothing at all.This just smells fishy. But hey, this comes from the same city government that told you that GOK was going to do Just Fine in their company’s rebirth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wish for the day that government would simply tell the truth.<\/p>\n

\"sclogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Oh yeah. I totally believe this one. Totally.<\/p>\n

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