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Open letter to the Mayor, Vincent Rockford. 


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Mister Rockford,

 

I wish to react to last month's events publicly because as it seems, you care about nothing just your precious reputation in this town without putting in any real effort to make people's lives better in any way here. 

 

My name is Lia Friuli and I worked for your government, not more than 25 days, after an almost four-month waiting for someone to handle my application. Last day, you fired me because I violated four parts of the City's Code of Conduct. After you took away everything from me, I will violate the fifth one and disclose as much detail about your disgusting government as possible. 

 

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Mister Rockford, your presence in this town is close to zero. You are not available in day-to-day means, during my employment I managed to see you two times in total, for 15-15 minutes. Even though I organized in-house meetups, you never managed to come and talk with your employees, you never gave a single minute to me, or us to talk with you. Your closest accomplice, Massimo Bonamici is just the same as you.

 

As soon as your government hired me, my induction to this work was a single email, nothing else. Nobody helped me through my first weeks, nobody gave me instructions or any know-how, all I received from your government was a single induction email with approximately 30 pages of legal bullshit, then good luck. Even though last night when you ordered me to your office I told you this fact, seemingly you found this acceptable, and fired me anyway. Even though, the Cultural Department has no director at the moment, who may help your employees with the job you gave them, you expect everybody to make a flawless job on first try. 

 

The Los Santos Race was financed by me, seemingly you were totally okay with this fact as well. Even though our paycheck is not more than $50,000, you were totally happy with the fact that I burned more than $250,000 from my owns pockets and with this, you pushed me into a situation where I can't even afford my fuel. As you can see in your inbox, I asked both you and the treasurer, Stanley Blackwood, who is just as a ghost as you and Massimo for help, but you managed to ignore this fact as well. Financing events from the employee's pockets isn't a new thing, during my time with your government I heard many times that you like to ignore requests like this, making the Curators pay for their own events. The reputation what you may or may not receive from the Department's work is sweet for you, but nothing else. 

 

You talk about professionalism and top-notch work all the time, even though the Government doesn't have any collective meetings. Every department can work on their own, some department with a helpful director, some department without a director at all, but where your government goes, what plans you have, what you expect from people, where to go when you need help... these details are not as important to see your employees at least once a month. As I write this letter, the government is operating without any regular, weekly or monthly meeting where both the directors the and Mayor is present. You are untouchable and you enjoy this. 

 

Mister Rockford, you are absolutely okay with a fact that an employee of yours is publicly humiliated with an event which is organized from the employee's pocket. Not a single word came out from your mouth about this, mental health is not something you passionate about. Even though the organizing of Los Santos Race took more than a month, the first time I heard about your concerns were four hours before the event. The fact that I was there alone and all my department was somewhere else is seemingly not a problem in your eyes, but when someone makes mistakes when managing more than a hundred people, your eyes turn red immediately. Learning and making better and better things each month is not something you expect or like, firing people after taking their money is much more like you, Mister Rockford. 

 

You hired me, without any proper induction period. From day one, you expected me to work for the department but you, or the person above us, Massimo Bonamici never gave me a single word about the job we do. Almost a month passed from the day when I was hired when the first time someone above me called me about our job. 

 

You were a hundred percent okay with the fact that my department is somewhere else when I managed to organize an event, even though you expected me to carry this out without flaws. And yes, to answer your question, I asked for help, many times. Another option, I can cancel the event three hours before we start and take the public's humiliation once again and let my own money fly away without even having the event. I hope you see the problem, Mister Rockford. 

In my situation, where you took away not just my savings but my reputation as well, gladly, I have nothing much to lose anyway. At least for the first time, the public can be aware of the procedures inside the government. 

 

No meetings, no goals, no directions. Departments running without Directors, untouchable leadership. A government without vision and actions. Frankly, without any daily work from you and your closest pals. A letter here and there and basically that's all. You can say this is not true, but we both know the truth. 

 

Shootings every day? Who gives a fuck? A massive amounts of accidents on the roads every day? Who gives a fuck? Flaws in our laws? Hmm, who cares? No public transportation in 2020? Blindfolded. Departments without leaders? Well, well, for the brighter future! A community day with the people? Nah, we don't need that! 

 

Those who work make mistakes, Mister Rockford. Only those who do not work can remain immaculate.

 


 

EDIT: 28/JUN/2020 - The Government continues to spread lies. 

 

As I write this response, the government just published their reaction to my letter. Even though the people I wished to reach decided to remain in the shadows, at least they hired an ad-hoc communications director to write a response, sadly, filled with lies. 

 

"Why she felt discouraged is unclear to us, as our records show no attempt at communication with the Office of the Mayor or the City Operations Officer during her tenure with the City."

 

This statement is a straight-up lie from the government, during my employment I sent multiple letters to the Mayor's Office, asking for help. Even though they never responded, now they even lie about the fact that I asked them. Not like the Mayor, I can provide proof to my point:

 

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"Currently, the Department of Cultural Affairs has no director due to a lack of qualified candidates. There are, however, members of the department whose seniority makes them ideal points of contact for guidance."

 

The City acknowledges that they are running a whole department without a director but this fact will not stop them from firing people before giving them an opportunity to change. 

 

"The "Los Santos Race" was organized and funded by Ms. Friuli without any prior notification to her superiors"

 

Lies, again. As shown above, I sent my requests to the Mayor's office (basically a group email to all the Mayor's associatives) a week before the event, even though I haven't received any affirmative or prohibitory response. Even though they saw my requests and they even sent a group email to the City workers to use photography services to our event, seemingly they were too stressed about doing nothing for the city to respond. 

 

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TL;DR: The City just hired someone within a week to avoid facing the consequences. I am calling for you, Mayor Vincent Rockford and City Operations Officer Massimo Bonamici! Not like you, I am not afraid to speak with the people.  

 

I am calling you out for a public debate at a place and time of your choice!

 


 

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*Kassandra Colthurst comes across the post when looking up local events on LS. She tilts her head upon seeing Friuli's name, recognizing her when she'd been organizing the race. She makes a note of the womans name on a small notepad.*

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Edit: 07/JUL/2020

 

Last day I was informed by a freshly resigned employee, that three people resigned from the government. The City is now running without Social Services. Maybe one person remained, who isn't doing anything else than grabbing her paycheck from time to time. The change is coming, people. You do not have to close your eyes when it comes to politics. Rockford and his criminal team have to go! Still waiting for your answer, Rockford. When will you speak with the people? We will organize a peaceful protest this weekend if you leave us without answers. You need to work, or you need to go. 

 


**The original message is now edited with a followup on 07/JUL/2020; people with RSS feed are notified.**

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