Suffolk hires new director of human resources from D.C.

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Ronnie E. Charles

By Dave Forster
The Virginian-Pilot
© October 9, 2008

SUFFOLK

The city has picked a Washington, D.C., official to be its new human resources director.

City Manager Selena Cuffee-Glenn announced Thursday that she has hired Ronnie E. Charles to start Nov. 17.

Charles has been the chief administrative and operating officer for the District of Columbia’s Child and Family Services Agency since 2004. Before that he worked on the executive management team for the Virginia Department of Human Resources Management from 1993 to 2003, according to a release from the city.

Suffolk has been looking for a human resources director since Yvonne Manning announced in July she was leaving to take the same position in Newport News.

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Poor Reporting

Submitted by factfinder on Fri, 10/10/2008 at 7:37 am.

This kind of reporting is what you get when you go strictly from a city-provided news release. Reporters don't ask questions and simply rewrite what the city provides. The Pilot might be better served to pay Ms. George, the city's spokesman, to report on city goveernment because the Pilot isn't. If people knew how much they were paying for these people, they would revolt or vomit.

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here's a tip....

Submitted by dfwdabull on Thu, 10/09/2008 at 9:02 pm.

hope ya didn't burn your bridges or sell your home in D.C...........

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Salary

Submitted by factfinder on Thu, 10/09/2008 at 5:55 pm.

By publishing the salary, they would open themselves up to criticism. Perish at the thought about open government and transparency.

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New HR Director Salary

Submitted by mose on Thu, 10/09/2008 at 2:58 pm.

As part of the Freedom of Information Act, why didn't Suffolk City Manager publish the salary of the new hire? By not publishing the new salary is the City Manager hiding a built-in "Golden Parachute."
"It's NOT a good time to be in Suffolk!"

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What is a human resource?

Submitted by donvabeach on Thu, 10/09/2008 at 12:43 pm.

I love the way that business has progressed over the past fifty years.

We used to have "tradesmen". Then "workers". Then "employees". Then "associates". Then "cubicle rats". Now...."human resources"?

What exactly is a "human resource"? Sounds kind of cold and impersonal to me. Is that like calling something "human remains", instead of a "dead body"? Like "human remains"....does "human resources" make it more palatable to our sensibilities, so that we no longer have to "fire a worker"....we merely are "cutting back on human resources"?

I think Dante must have been talking about people who go down to the unemployment office....when he said: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here!" Or maybe go to work for "human resources"?

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