PBS: an inside story

I was surprised to hear about this but, then, I hadn't watched KCET for many years either.

According to Wikipedia, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is

an American non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership.[2] Its headquarters are in Arlington, Virginia.

Funny, I just remembered someone I used to work with at Universal Studios (when I worked at MCA RECORDS which was on the lot there at the time) who told me a story about KCET...

She was explaining to me why she would NEVER consider contributing money during their very tedious fundraisers that used to do a halfway decent job of making you feel like a moocher if you didn't pay up.

Apparently, she'd worked there before she came over to MCA and she said the top dogs would take long, long martini lunches everyday--she would often go and took naps afterwards to recover--and were rolling in dough.

So, there's no way she'd give her hard-earned working girl's bucks over to them, no way!

Don't blame her a bit and, somehow, it all seems so believable after James O'Keefe posted a follow-up video as part of his undercover investigation of NPR...

Fool me once, yeah...

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Aside from the overflowing toilets, vomit on the floor, and getting paid for doing nothing (your taxpayer money at work though):

She said the vouchers are "rife with idiotic mistakes by Level 1 reviewers who are rejecting them for no reason at all, mostly because they are not paying attention."

"I am amazed at the number of vouchers that have been rejected in the last six weeks," Willey said. "Many have been rejected and returned to dealers three to seven times! And for no good reason. What is happening here is that the Level 1 examiners are so inept and lazy that, rather than take the time to closely examine and review these vouchers the way that they should, they just hit the reject or approve button without a second thought. That, of course, slows down the whole process and the dealers aren't getting paid by the Department of Transportation. The dealers are frustrated and irate, and make no bones about it when they return their documents that are correct and don't need to be revised. When their documents are returned for revision, they have no number to call or person to e-mail."

Willey told WND that auto dealers were often very good about submitting the eight documents required to receive a rebate, but some vouchers were being sent back because Level 1 examiners failed to hit the "next" button to go to the following page of documents.

She said, "I saw that time and time again. Then the dealers would write back and say, 'It's on Page 2.'"

Willey said a single voucher would be passed around to as many as a dozen workers without being processed.

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