SFist: The Great Building Inspector Brouhaha of '05

rita

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:57:02 -0800

I think you can watch the meeting online here. (it's labeled Building Commission meeting 4/5/05; I haven't actually watched it to confirm if it's this meeting or not.)

Jon

Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:04:05 -0800

According to Joan Ryan, you can find the transcript on the SFGov Web site. I tried to find a copy of it, but was unable to. Try doing a search on the site (sfgov.org) yourself and good luck.

Charlie Quidnunc

Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:16:11 -0800

Does anyone have a copy of the hearing tape online. I would love to play it in my podcast tomorrow. If you have access to the tape, let me know.

Coward

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:12:08 -0800

Umm..trying to say this politely...if you eased up on the exclamation points, like no two sentences in a row, your posts might read a little better.

Amanda

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:47:17 -0800

"Pregnancy brain?" Please. How many people work in an office where discussing/watching/betting on the NCAA championship games took up about 40% of company time? And since when does California offer maternity leave for longer than the average vacation cruise to Alaska? You pop out the baby, get thrown out of the hospital the next day, and a month later, back to work! Up the ladder in a dress? Is this a Naked Gun reference? Was that an attempt at humor? I'm due to give birth in 3 weeks. My mind is not totally wrapped up in All Things Baby. I find plenty of time to continue my work (teaching self defense and martial arts, no less.) My other day job (never to be named online) told me that they would not be paying for my medical maternity leave because it would "discriminate against all the people in the office who will never take maternity leave." Meaning, the men. Soooo, it's just women who want to have babies? The men would rather we kept our jobs and didn't go through the hell of gestation? Fine with me! One last question: Would this be an issue if Lee was adopting? Would O'Donoghue still have made all the same comments? Is it really that pregnant women are stereotyped as weak and crazy? Oh, this man pisses me off.

Jackson West

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:43:51 -0800

Please sue us, Joe! Pretty please!