California DMV Shows Ambivalence Over Transgender Hatred

http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/california_dmv_shows_ambivalence_over_transgender_hatred
12/21/10
by Jordan Rubenstein

Sure, he recently submitted his resignation, so he is no longer working at the DMV or living on a DMV paycheck. But it shouldn't take months for an employee to lose their job after a blatant breach of privacy and sending hate mail. Would the employee be paid for months of administrative leave if he had sent a racist letter to a person of color renewing their license? Or if he had sent a sexist letter to a random woman who came in to get her license?

The bottom line is that transgender people should be treated with the same respect as all customers of the DMV, and they shouldn't face harassment or mistreatment in any form because of who they are. Sending hate mail to transgender people using private information from your workplace should be grounds for immediate termination.

In doing it the way they went about it (which was by following the rules and regulations) they made him quit as opposed to firing him yeah.  So he got's a months paid leave, but now does not get unemployment.  Huge deal.

When you are fired for cause, as this ass should have been immediately, you do not collect unemployment. 

He probably got promoted at his local church and had to quit due to increased time commitment. Can't see the justice system lifting another finger any time soon so I guess a public mocking will have to do. :/

I'm all for the State of California following proper procedure so he doesn't have ground to sue them and make money off of it.

Being a state employee there is a specific procedure they must follow word for word in order to terminate him, an action he can still appeal anyways.  By resigning he's giving up all those rights so this isn't going to be a court battle for years and years, costing the state even more money.  A month's pay and they can close the books on this seems like a pretty fair deal to me.

Revenge aside, this case will hopefully serve as an example to state government employees.

The best we can hope for is that this never happens again.