It’s been 10 years since I was asked to leave the employ of the City of Fitchburg. Beers For Good is having its annual meeting Sunday, and I’m going to bring a cake with ten candles to celebrate. I’m not sure if celebrate is the right word. Reminisce, maybe.
I never moved away from Fitchburg, and I tried to stay involved in making the city a better place. Readers of my blog (all none of you) know many of the efforts I made post-dismissal, and know that I ran for City Council in 2012. Reading back through this crap, I think to my self “Oh my God who cares about all this stuff?” It sure seemed important at the time. (I’m not sure why the traffic signals at the Upper Common were so important to me, and I had forgotten that I was on the verge of issuing a notice to proceed to the traffic engineers that fateful day.)
If Lisa Wong had just said to me “I don’t like the job you’re doing, and I want you to find another job”, I could have dealt with that. But she was so terrible about dealing with people. I remember the way she handled Dan Curley. She wanted to fire him for ages, and talked to me all the time about it, but couldn’t bring herself to tell him! And when she did fire him, it was done so ham-handedly. And when she did it to me, it was so brutal. I think I talked about it in an earlier blog post.
I wonder how Lisa Wong is doing in Winchester MA, where she’s now Town Manager. That’s where Ann Wirtanen, the former Fitchburg Library Director, works as their library director. Ann Wirtanen alienated virtually everyone she came into contact with, and was the director when Lisa cut their budget by 80%. They deserve each other!
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And then the Building Department was put under the Community Development Office, and all their employees had to move out of their third floor space that they had occupied for eons. It was horribly disruptive and was quickly reversed. Others may remember it better.
There were other “brain farts” that escape me right now. That woman was cray cray, and those years were difficult. The last ten years have been much better, if a little more austere.
