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Before you vote for Jeff Ursino read this email

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From: Damari Stratford

To: senator.denham@sen.ca.gov; senator@boxer.senate.gov; senator@feinstein.senate.gov; seniorcoalition@calcentral.com

Cc: Assemblymember.Caballero@assembly.ca.gov; assemblymember.fuentes@assembly.ca.gov

Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 9:13:27 AM

Subject: Jeff Ursino, why did he do this?

Regarding the following statement

"Jeff Ursino believes parents should play a more active role in Pajaro Valley schools, and with one son entering Aptos Junior High and another kindergarten at Rio del Mar Elementary, he's making his move."

Yet he fired me for putting my daughters needs first. I had told him that my daughter had been followed home one day and that I needed to be there for her after school and on weekends. We even filed a police report. I told him how many sex offenders lived within 1/2 a mile of my house, but he just didn't care. My hours were changed from 5p.m. to 3 p.m., by the previous manager, although Jeff tried to take credit for that. One of Jeffs ideas was for me to bring my daughter to work and put her in the back room to watch videos, wow. But that was never approved by his boss, not to mention the liability to the employer. Before you vote, understand that while I was out ill,due to stress, anxiety and blood pressure issue, due to Jeff bullying me and threating me with "job abandoment" yet I had doctors notes not to go to work but he wrote me up for not going to work, Jeff never called to see how I was doing, but when he fired me via UPS, in that envelope he included my doctors note which was faxed into him the day prior. He claims that he called me to see if I was coming in , yet the faxed in doctors note clearly stated that I would be out untill the 16th. He fired me on the 13th. And I still have all of these papers and letter from Jeff Ursino. Tax payers need to know who they are voting for. How does Jeff feel about bullying in the school system? Or the work place?



Subject: before you vote? Fired by Jeff Ursino, a manager with no heart and he wants to make choices for the children of PVSD

Before you vote for Jeff Ursino ask yourself if the choices he made when he fired a working mother, via UPS, while at home ill...due to stress brought on by the way he treated this mother..was that the best choice for all parties concerned? Jeff could have made alot better choices but he made the choice to be unprofessional and didn't bother following policy and procedure> Why?

Here is a letter from a concerned customer

March 25, 2006 Dear Ms. Deloney,

I would like to take a moment and thank you for responding to my comments regarding Damari and the manager. I am sure that you are a very busy and important person and I appreciate your time. Damari is truly missed at the bank, since her unfair termination by the manger, the atmosphere at the bank is boring to say the least. Damari added life and laughter and she enjoyed serving the customers. I feel deeply, that the manager made a huge mistake in dismissing her while she was ill. What kind of a manager would dismiss an employee while they are ill?

As I say this, I now have further concerns about another teller name Andrea. I was in the bank and was told that she has injured her knee and will be out of work for about six weeks. I'm sure that Andrea has a doctors note as Damari did, I hope that the manager doesn't make the same mistake and decides to terminate her and mail her a letter before she returns as he did Damari when he terminated her instead of waiting for her to get well and return to work. Although I would understand if he were let her go as she spends most of her time at work doing her homework , reading and she isn't available everyday. Andrea will move on, on her own to become a teacher, this is what she goes to school for two days a week. By her going to school, I feel this puts a strain on the staff. I understand that the rest of the tellers along with Kathleen are now having to work six days a week and Kathleen is running a window: she doesn't have the charm or customer service skills which Damari offered the bank.

We go into the bank often and we rarely see that manager. I feel that it would be in the best interest of the bank to find a permanent manager as soon as possible, one whom appreciates competent employees as Damari. Frankly, I don't understand how a temporary manager was given the authority to dismiss an employee such as Damari with her wonderful skills , talents and dedication to her job. Therefore my concerns are now for Andrea whom doesn't compare with the kind of service Damari offered your customers. As I stated before, the other tellers spend too much time speaking to customers about personal things and shopping on the computer instead of banking conversations. I frequently witness them reading and eating while at their windows: this is very unprofessional.

I feel it would be in the best interest to Citibank to launch a complete investigation on the manager, as you stated would be done and seriously consider removing him from Carmel. In my opinion since he arrived the atmosphere is tense and if I can sense it I am sure that other customers do. This manager has taken all the personal touch and charm out of the bank and I feel the employees fear for their jobs: no one should have to work under those conditions. Keeping this manager at this or any branch is sure to destroy you business. Again, thank you for your letter and taking the time to look into this situation.

Sincerely, Clifford Bagwell

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From: Damari Stratford

To: assemblymember.aghazarian@assembly.ca.gov; Assemblymember.Caballero@assembly.ca.gov; assemblymember.coto@assembly.ca.gov; assemblymember.fuentes@assembly.ca.gov; assemblymember.gaines@assembly.ca.gov; assemblymember.houston@assembly.ca.gov; assemblymember.lieu@assembly.ca.gov; assemblymember.mendoza@assembly.ca.gov; assemblymember.parra@assembly.ca.gov

Cc: assemblymember.price@assembly.ca.gov; assemblymember.swanson@assembly.ca.gov; assemblymember.torrico@assembly.ca.gov; assemblymember.walters@assembly.ca.gov; Repower America Maggie L. Fox

Sent: Tue, June 22, 2010 7:05:18 AM

Subject: Fw: Fired by a manager with no heart and he wants to make choices for the children of PVSD

Can the school district afford to have such a heartless man making choices for the children?

I have a 13 page letter I wrote to Jeff Ursino, pleading my case but he just couldn't meet me in the middle. He fired me while I was at home ill. Why couldn't he wait for me to return to work? He had the doctors note which stated I would be out until the 16th, so why not wait, follow the rules, policy and procedure? As a manager he didn't do his job right and cost his employer alot of trouble. Any good manager would known that there are labor laws which must be followed but Jeff Ursino made the choice to ignor them. Jeff is not the best choice for the children.



I was the only spanish speaking teller at the branch. Was it the best choice for the customers which depended on my spanish to do their banking? Was that the best choice he could make?

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When Jeff fired me, 12 days before christmas and in the process broke Califofrnia labor laws and also didn't follow the banks firing policy or procedure and all this caused my daughter and family alot of heartache, was it the best choice he could make. Was it fair for my daughter to feel guilty that her mom had lost her job all because she was wanting to continue to care for her daughter, was that the best choice for my daughter. Imagine how she felt and how sad. She worried about the holidays coming up and now mom lost her job just because Jeff didn't care about her needs or life style. I have every letter and notes from that awful choice he made. I don't feel he is qualified to be making choices for any child that isn't his. I feel the public has a right to know how uncaring and heartless he and his actions were to my daughter and my family. I have a letter where Jeff states he was calling me to see if I was coming into work, yet with my letter of termination he includes that very note which was faxed into the bank the day before by my doctor,but he made the heartless choice to fire me while I was at home ill. What kind of a person fires an employee while they are at home ill, with a doctors note? With a pending workers comp case. A heartless and uncaring man. His choice changed our lives forever. Why didn't he follow the firing procudures? I have eveyone of my reviews by the bank and over 50 letters from customers which enjoyed my work at the bank. So if as a manager Jeff decided not to follow policy and procedure of the company and or the labor code of California, what qualifies him to make choices which could affect the children of Pajaro Valley School? Does Jeff have education on Childhood deveolpment? As a tax payer in California, our residence have a right to know what he did to my family if he is going to be making choices on behalf of your children

It is my opinion that Jeff Ursino is not the best choice for the children

I think it is strange that Jeff thinks he is the best choice for the chiildren after what he did to my daughter and the lack of concern for her needs. Was it the right choice for her, for him to fire me the way he did and that my daughter felt that it was her fault that I was fired? Was it the right choice for my daughter to see me upset over what he had done? What qualifies him to say that he is the best choice for any child? Did he go back to school and learn more about what our childrens' needs and how important it is for our teenagers to have their parents around? Jeff wanted me to bring my daughter to work and put her in the back room to atch videos, is that the best choice for a child? What if the bank had been robbed and what about the liabilty to the bank? Did he get that approved? No...Was it right for Jeff to try and have me break my word to my daughter?

and then there was this power trip..



Damari commented on this story on CBS News.

I was told once by Jeff Ursino, a manager of a bank, that I no longer was allowed to wear hats, which I had been wearing for the prior four years, with no problems from anyone else. He claimed it was part of dress code policy, but corporate said that it was his own rule. He made me stop wearing them and a few weeks later, he decided that I could wear them but only twice a week. So was he just on a POWER kick??He had us read the dress code policy which stated nothing against hats, but he wanted me to know that he was the new boss and he made the rules as they suited him. So why take the hats away, if indeed it was a corporate policy and or why then tell me I can wear them and go against "corporate" never did make sense to me, just a power trip. What do you think? He later fired me for something even stupider than that, another power play I guess??

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Dear Senator Barbara Boxer, Re: Response by the U.S. Department of Labor

I agree that I mentioned to Ronan that the bank had violated the Family and

Medical Leave Act, but I don't believe that I said , I was fired for taking

FMLA. I have never felt that I was fired for that reason. FMLA was never

brought up to me by the bank, FMLA was brought up to me by Met Life after

papers were filed for STD. In fact, Met Life had told me not to fill out the

papers for FMLA just STD and LTD.

In, October 2005 I was told that the bank was going to start opening on

Saturday, I explained to the manager that this would be stressful and a

financial burden for my family and I. I explained that my husband worked

Saturdays and my daughters was involved in sports, on the volleyball team and

that I was team mom. I explained to him that I feared leaving my daughter

alone because I had been raped at her age and molested earlier in life. I

explained that earlier that year my daughter had been followed home and that

is why I was cutting my hours back from 5 to 3. A police report was filed

with Seaside PD. I also explained to the bank how many child molesters there

our within  ½ mile of my house, and I explained that my daughter had

tryouts on Nov. 5, 2005 in Salinas and my husband was already scheduled to

work. Although the manager had two other tellers scheduled for that day he

would not allow me to change weekends. On Nov. 7 and 8, my blood pressure was

up and the doctor told me to take the rest of day off on the 7th and the 8th.

Although I did not wish to work Saturdays to care for my daughter , the

manager had asked me to go home and talk to my family, which I did. The

manager also suggested that I bring my daughter to work and have her go in

the back room and watch videos. The manger asked me to meet him half way and

at least work one. After talking to my family I asked if I could work on the

3rd Saturday of every month along with my 5 days a week scheduled, my husband

agreed to take the 3rd Saturday of each month off to tend to my daughters

needs. Two days or so after I discussed this with the manager he calls me

just as I am getting off of work and said ":sorry it will have to be 2

Saturdays a month. Yet a teller with less seniority and not as good as I was

asked for Tuesdays and Thursdays off and it was granted. I was only asking

for one day off a month she was asking for 8 days off a month and she

requested this about 3 weeks after my request.

On the first Saturday that I was schedule they already had 2 other tellers

and the managers boss had spoken to me on my cell phone while I was at the

doctors office with my daughter waiting to see the doctor. I told her that my

daughter had tryouts and that I was driving her there as long has she wasn't

to ill to tryout. My daughters ended up having bronchitis . During our

conversation I had said I wouldn't be in and the manager had also been told

along with the supervisor but I was threaten with a write up if I didn't go

in. Why was the manager flexible with Andrea schedule and not mine. Why was

it ok for her to do her homework at the counter, leave about $10,000.00 out

and never get written up?

The manager wrote me up, 5 days later, he could have written me up on the

7th, 8th, 9th, but didn't , he wrote me up after getting my letter and

calling me to find out if the letter was just for him, which it was. The

following Saturday that I was scheduled was the 19th, and on the 17th I had

gone to the doctors, after work, my blood pressure was up again and the

doctor put me out of work for the 18th, 19th,and 20th. The state that in

early November, 2005, that I didn't show up to work during the week, this is

a LIE and I had always called in. The only time that I personally didn't call

in was on12/12/05 because my doctor had called in for me due to my blood

pressure and also faxed in a note. Andrea had her mother call in for her and

she didn't get fired but my doctor calls in for me and I get fired, why? The

bank did not decide to terminate me in November, Jeff Ursino decided to

terminate me because I ask that I be contacted via email to protect me

health. If the bank had decided to fire me then were was my final check and

exit interview and why fire me in the middle of a workers comp pending case?

California codes were not follow by Jeff Ursino . When I requested my file

there was no notes that I record had been reviewed or that HR gave Jeff

Ursino permission to fire me, why? I was given a medical note not to work on

Dec. 6th and then it was extended on Dec. 12 -16th. the bank states or the

letter from US Dept. Of Labor that I sent in my note at the same time that I

was being sent the termination letter, yet another lie.

Kathleen had been faxed the disability note on the 12th of Dec. Jeff Ursino

decided to fire me on 12/13/05, sometime after 1:45 pm, after reading my

email. At that point the manager suggested to HR that I be terminated

immediately, although he acknowledges receiving my email. I f the termination

letter was being sent out at the same time I was sending my note in were was

my final paycheck? The bank rescinded the termination because I did not

qualify for unemployment and State disability due to a program the bank

carries. But had I not gone thru these steps they would not have rescinded

their decision. They rescinded , in my opinion because they realized that

Jeff Ursino had made some errors, they ignored that I was ill and they

realized that he fired me during an open workers comp case. In fact, Chrys ,

of HR ,called Carla at Travelers Insurance for workers comp on the 14th of

Dec. 2005 to see how the case was going, at that point she was told that it

would probably be denied, but she never mention to workers comp that I had

been terminated via UPS the day before. I did not apply for workers comp at

the end of my Short Term Disability Leave Plan, the workers comp case was

started 11/22/05, or so.

Again just more lies by the bank, Jeff Ursino and Kathleen .

The bank continues to give false statements. Please don't stop helping us

they are not telling the truth. You have returned my binder to me, thank you

, but the proof is all in there, now what do I do? The bank did not behave in

good faith, not fair and equal treatment of all employees. They would tell

clients that I left to work for my husband or that I was on vacation,

anything but the truth.I still have all paper work to back what I have

You got our votes we need some change from the board members we have. While they may have tried they have failed our children time for some new blood and yes Gold is better then Silver

Yahoo! You get my vote. The time is right.

What GREAT news!

Untill Susan Silver is gone and Michael and Sue are in the minority, nothing is going to change. You have my vote John and Art because I am counting on your vote, to change the leadership of the district. Our children and wonderful teachers deserve better!

We don't want silver and will only settle for GOLD!

That crew in there has got to go starting with Susan Silver.