I don't want to dwell on the man who fired me with accusations that I was unethical, based upon a politically motivated interpretation of the Tribal Personnel Policy. I have seen this post on easternband.com, but I don't have anything that confirms it, and getting such confirmation could land some poor tribal employee in trouble for violating confidentiality, and we don't want that.What I can point out is that the fact that Charles Penick is still employed as the Deputy of Budget and Finance after his charge of assault on a female demonstrates a double standard of the Hicks administration.
Terri Henry was a director until she was accused of slapping her boyfriend during an argument. He charged her, and she was fired because of it. Despite the case being dismissed, she still lost her job. She said it was because she refused to hire a Hicks relative. The charges against Penick were dropped, but Penick never lost his job. He even had a gun taken away from him at the time.
Of course the double standard isn't anything new. Tribal PR Coordinator Lynne Harlan is still employed, still writing her puff columns for the Asheville Citizen-Times. This is after I lost my job for writing columns for the same publication. The difference was, Chief Hicks didn't approve of what I was writing.
Maybe I'll get confirmation that what was posted on easternband.com is true. Maybe I won't, but the double standard has been unquestionably confirmed.
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Buried deep on the Personnel Policy are the words that "All EBCI employees are expected to conduct themselves with integrity, impartiality, and professional conduct that will reflect favorably upon themselves and the EBCI. EBCI employees shall comply with all ethical standards adopted by the Tribal Council or otherwise applicable to the EBCI." Sec. 8.00. This boilerplate language that can be stretched to mean anything to anybody has been used to fire people who did great jobs, but may have ruffled political feathers. Its essential meaninglessness allows the Deputies and the Attorney General's office to manipulate the corrective action procedure to no end except that which is politically desired or expendient.
good riddance to the gasbag pennick.
i'll tell you what, if i'm michell hicks, i'm SERIOUSLY worried about a federal indictment right now with the change of political leadership in this country which seems bent on rooting out CORRUPTION
**hicks-blago for federal prison fluffboys '09**
Interesting Evelyn. That was the exact passage from the personnel policy Penick and Hicks used, and we all know that any interpretation can be used against any employee. I noted that Lynne Harlan stopped using her title with her work in the Citizen-Times after my incident.
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