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The acting director of IDES made a presentation to legislators on Monday, revealing a startling statistic: The department receives about 200,000 calls from unique claimants a week and they can respond to 15%.
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From articale, acting ides director claims they respond to just 15% of 200,000 calls a week. From what I’ve read previously ides has 517 afsceme employees + 200 new employees =717 ides employees answering calls..therefore 200,000 calls x 15% =only 30,000 calls answered a week. Or 30,000 calls÷ 717 employees = 42 calls answered/ per employee/ per week!!!! Am i smoken crack or is ides a complete incompetent fraudulent flop..(but one thing im sure of all those ides afsme work from home heros, when you throw in thier ridiculous benifit deals, are making a way better living than me)…where’s blm… Read more »
Time to bring in more private sector workers to do the job the lazy union parasites can’t do
Ides & afscme are busy blaiming private hired call center delliot employees as scapegoats for their monumental flop…all while working from home