Only a few people showed up Sunday in Blagden Alley for the auction at Back Alley Waffles, the restaurant that closed last month and whose former employees say they worked for weeks without getting paid
The owner of the now-shuttered Back Alley Waffles owes former employees thousands of dollars in back pay, and he’s scraping together the money the only way he can—by auctioning off the restaurant’s equipment and supplies.
May 15, 2012
Salary Spying: Database Makes Finding Out What Federal Government Employees Make Easier
Curious what certain federal government employees make? Now it’s easy to find out.
Most everyone knows that the District’s government is big — some 33,000 people work for it. But today, The Washington Times breaks down why it’s so costly and how that’s slowly changing.
Oct 13, 2011
Give Some Props to Good Government Employees
It’s easy to complain about the District’s government, and we’ve certainly all had a run-in with a bureaucrat that clearly seemed to hate their job something fierce. But there’s always that one city employee that is courteous, helpful and even goes out of their way to help.
Aug 03, 2011
Transit Police Arrest Metro Employees For Theft
WMATA announced this afternoon that Metro Transit Police arrested three individuals – two current Metro employees, and one former employee (UPDATE: and one more!) – on theft charges.
Want to show your gratitude to the garbage collector who had to pick up the remnants of your last house party with a modest gift card? Yeah, don’t.
Metro has suspended two of its employees after three customers traveling on MetroAccess, the transit system’s van-based service for the disabled, disappeared for more than five hours on Tuesday, as WUSA9’s Dave Statter reports.Perry Robinson tells 9NEWS NOW when he came home at 8:00 PM his grandmother was not in the house. Robinson called Prince George’s County Police after learning that a Metro Access van picked-up 88-year-old Gertrude Garner at 4:10 PM from Helping…
Mar 25, 2008
Eleven Fired DCPS Workers Rehired by the District
When, in early March, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee handed 98 central office workers pink slips, the move was heralded as a step forward in cleaning out the District’s bloated and inefficient public schools bureaucracy. But you know what they say — one bureaucracy’s loss is another one’s gain. D.C. Wire reported yesterday that of the 98 workers fired, 11 have already been put back on the city payroll, though in a different department. According…
Mar 11, 2008
More on the DCPS Firings
Late on Friday D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee fired 98 central office employees, taking a big step toward her promise to “create a culture of accountability.” Mafara Hobson, Rhee’s spokesperson, has said the dismissals were based “partly on employee performance and on Rhee’s plans to make the central office more efficient,” and the city’s Department of Human Resources has not yet released the names of those terminated, in an effort to preserve their privacy. Predictably,…