Remarks by Rafael Cabrera
221 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 9
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“Okay, but so I can log in with just my employee ID without an email.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“And the first time that you log in, you're given a temporary password, and then you can update to your address.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Now, in the event that you forget your password, how can you get that updated password without having an email address?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Excellent. Thank you. Do you have further questions?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Any other board members have questions for the supervisor there? I want to just follow up. In this case here with his Miami and not having access, as he stated, in that case you're saying you will go to the supervisor or the superintendent? Because I heard you say the superintendent.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“How do you go to their supervisor? Do you call them?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Let me give you an example. Rionda requests... X number of hours off. He's got to make that request, if I'm following directly, to the superintendent, right? That would be his direct supervisor. So he would request, boom, boom, boom. The superintendent doesn't really know his hour situation, similar situation, right? Puts in, he's requesting X number of hours. He sends it in. He might even put it in that calendar. He's going to be off because he looks, he goes, that works, yeah, I approve it at my level because I have coverage for my responsibilities. Sends it in. When you receive it and you…”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“So you don't approve, but you're the one checking if they have availability. If they have availability. Okay, so then help me to understand. Who is the final person? the final baptism to say, it's approved. It went to the supervisor. They said, I got coverage. I got people that can manage cranes or mechanics that can handle it. And then you say, this is within their employer rights. They have it. Who do you send it to to then say, please?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Oh, okay, okay. So then, so Rionda, in this scenario, next week, next month, once time off, he's going to send, is it Superintendent Paz? Pau. Pau. He sends Superintendent Pau. I'm requesting this time. Superintendent Pau sends you a message and says he's requesting eight hours in this example that I'm giving. You look and you go, he's got eight hours. So you send back to Pau and you go, He's good to go. Or you see him verbally and you go, hey, Rionda, he's going to enjoy the eight hours. He's going to take the eight hours. That's how it works. And then, this is what you're telling me. I want…”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“OK. But in this case, Pau, you tell him, yes, he's good to go with the eight hours. You could tell him verbally. And now, Pau is the one that ultimately then, I guess, approves and can say, hey, I put in the hours. I got the coverage. I sent it up to Puig. Puig said, you're covered with the eight hours. Now I'm coming back and I am giving the final approval. Here you go. And then is that, in your experience, when you request time off, you have a supervisor.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Do they give you a verbal, you're good to go, enjoy your vacation, enjoy your time off? Or do they send you...”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Enjoy your days off, whatever you're doing. Those hours off. How does it work?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Does it happen often that employees take personal time off, PTO time?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“We're all assuming. Everything that I'm asking you in here is asking you, tell me, on a normal employee, every employee here, you guys are all employees. You're an employee of the city of Miami. How long have you been employed? 18 years. You get a certain amount of vacation time every year. Yes. In those 18 years, do you take your vacation time? I do. Okay. There's a protocol for how you request it, right? Yeah. You send an email or you verbally, you email them. Hey, I would like these days off.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“And then how do they approve it? Do they give you a form back?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“They give you the form back. Yes. It makes sense. I mean, that's just how it would make sense. There's just some kind of, I would want as an employee, give me an email, give me something in writing. Yes, no, I got it. You gave me my time. Yeah, no.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“I would imagine, this is not, you don't have 5,000 employees under your thing. I have 172. Okay, out of the 172... Do you recall any other that are taking so much excessive time that they don't have available? Or is this something that you're like at the top of the line? Oh, yeah, this is a person that requests more time.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“When you've run into these instances with 170-something employees that come requesting time to you when you run into that, do you inform them in writing or something of their rights, what they do, the proper way you educate them how to do it? Because these people are good at what they do. They're not experts at requesting time off. Clearly, some of them have more issues with how much time and understanding clearly what time they have available or whatnot.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Here it is. Any other questions? We need that accountability from top to bottom when everybody requests it. I'm not going to accept anybody coming up here that's in charge of of times, or reviewing times, and tell me that the way that they request time, I don't care if you work in a donut shop, or if you're working in a body shop, or whatever it is. Everybody has a boss that they have to ask for time off. Even the boss, the head administrator, when he's gonna do time, he is gonna inform, subordinates at that point, and get an approval so that it's clear. Can you imagine positions not being…”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Or another form? Was he given that in writing or just verbally?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“I'm not worried about what he's assuming. I'm asking you, was he given the opportunity? Yes, I told him.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026