Here it is, November 2011. You probably remember some little blurb about voluntary separation of employees earlier this year from the AOC ostensibly to reduce the amount of layoffs that would be imposed upon other AOC employees.
The good news for AOC employees is that it is all a sham. We’re informed that not a single person has been downsized in September, October or half way into November of this year. In fact, the hiring binge continues.
While you may no longer be able to find AOC jobs on job boards like Monster.com, dice.com or craigslist.org, rest assured that if you plug your resume on one of these three sites, AOC’s contract recruiters will be contacting you instead of you contacting them.
How do we know? Because both IT firms and Apple One are still recruiting, denoting the company as “company confidential”. The problem with that is that not everybody will go to work for just anybody so company confidential does not remain the policy once a recruiter contacts you. Reports have been trickling in from other readers of JCW about the AOC’s ongoing “Company Confidential” recruiting efforts with our own readers being recruited by the AOC.
And there you thought they were taking proactive measures to reduce their head count, all while increasing their head count……
It’s all just another version of Tani’s truth.
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Judicial Council Watcher 
Wendy Darling
November 17, 2011
Published today, Thursday, November 17, from Courthouse News Service, by Bill Girdner. As usual with Girdner’s articles on the AOC and the Judicial Council, well worth the read:
Smoke and Mirrors
By BILL GIRDNER
When they announced two weeks ago that a “white knight” was going to plunk $20 million into a troubled IT project for managing cases, members of California’s Judicial Council could hardly contain their enthusiasm.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/11/17/41548.htm
Long live the ACJ.
antonatrail
November 17, 2011
Greed-driven, felony stupid bureaucrats are leading the California judicial branch into hell. If all judges do not stand up to this idiocy, they may deserve the compromised branch that will be the result.
Been There
November 17, 2011
Just a question: is the article correct in asserting that one of the benefits anticipated from CCMS was that the program would generate $millions for the AOC?
Jeeze Louise! How much due diligence was done before they launched the HMS Titanic? Why would they install a regional director with no IT experience on such an important project?
MrsKramer
November 17, 2011
“Now California’s court administrators along with the Judicial Council are, I very strongly suspect, falling into a similar trap. To be sure, it is cleverly disguised.”
How is it “cleverly disguised”? Seems pretty black and white to me.
A wealthy businessman is seizing the opportunity to gain greater control over the legal system of the state in which he does business.
The leaders of the legal system are willing to give greater control because they only have two choices:
1. Admit what a mess they have made and stop wasting tax dollars – now that this is under the microscope, or
2. Not admit what a mess they have made and get the money from where ever they can to continue the charade of being leaders.
antonatrail
November 23, 2011
Bravo, ACJ, for keeping the truth out in front and the pressure on the pinheaded bureaucrats:
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/11/22/on-the-money-judges-blow-whistle-on-state-agencys-hiring/
unionman575
November 24, 2011
We all live on crumbs in the trial courts throughout CA, while the AOC spends on unwanted and unneeded projects and high priced consultants.
unionman575
December 28, 2011
The AOC mantra is you can never have enough contractors and consultants.
notimpressed
January 20, 2012
Sorry but this is flat wrong. I know because I work there. Close to 40 people left, yes left, during those last few months of 2011. Those positions are not being refilled. How do I know? Because I work there and no temps or consultants are being put into those positions. Some from IS, Finance, HR, OCCM, etc. I thought you guys had insiders?? Guess I am the only one.
If you had insiders you would know by now that Mark Moore has also left the building. He has “moved on to other opportunities.” I don’t see anything written on this site about it, but perhaps I missed it. I figured you’d make it a huge headline somewhere given all the bashing. Then again I rarely visit this site because of a lot of the misinformation you post. And the videos are incredibly annoying.
Michael Paul
January 21, 2012
The post you’re making a reply to was composed on November 15th, well before Mark Moore announced he would be leaving his post and six weeks before the end of 2011. As to Mark Moore’s departure, it was announced in a thread titled “and I ran, I ran so far away” that you can click on in the menu to the left.
Michael Paul
January 21, 2012
P.S. I was one of those people continuously recruited to be a consultant by the AOC’s recruiters over the past eighteen months. Drop me a note and I’ll forward you all related email to prove it. michael_paul AT michaelpaul.net
Judicial Council Watcher
January 20, 2012
There’s a difference between taking the money and exiting and being downsized. We’ve received quite a bit of email from individuals that frequent this site about the AOC’s current recruiting efforts for high level consultants.
In fact, continued hiring of consultants has been going on without interruption. If Mr.Overholt wants to come here and tell us that the AOC has not hired or recruited for new consultants in the last 30/60/90 days, then we’ll be happy to ask him publicly about all of the positions our readers have been recruited for by AOC’s contract recruiters.