How can I prove what I’m stating here? Two ways, actually: verifiable person-to person conversations, and more powerfully—text messages, which legally serve as a written account. I’ve shared the following information with others, and they recall both the timeframe and the content. Here are two examples that show that Kelsey at Pima County Conservation Lands and Resources has behaved unprofessionally and dishonestly in regard to her employer and to me as well. Both of these instances are verifiable, and I would swear to either under oath in a courtroom setting.
- In February of 2024, I became aware that a shoulder injury was going to need medical attention. At a Pima County Monday morning ‘check-in meeting’ with my supervisor, I informed Kelsey that I had injured myself at home, and I described to her the incident wherein I tripped over a treadmill in my garage, all because I didn’t turn on the lights. I would soon-after learn that my left shoulder’s rotator cuff had been “99%” shorn off, according to a local general surgeon. Kelsey said something then that shocked me. She seemed so honest, and yet, she offered me a financial solution that can only be categorized as fraudulent. Kelsey offered for me to take care of this injury financially with a Pima County Workman’s Compensation claim. I had clearly stated only a minute earlier that I had incurred the injury at home via my own stupidity, and she even lowered her voice as she spoke those words (one could hear conversations through a poorly connected space between her office window and wall, and we could often hear the goings-on next door). I politely declined Kelsey’s offer to falsely take advantage of a Workman’s Comp Insurance process, veering away from that conversation due to my discomfort with what had just happened. Essentially, Kelsey had offered to lie on my behalf, and wanted me to become a willing accomplice and party to that lie. It’s ironic that my honesty that day saved Pima County in excess of $90,000, and that later this same individual would again be dishonest as she created wrongful circumstance to be rid of me after working almost the full year of my probationary period. Perhaps it was related to me not endorsing her willingness to engage in fraudulent behavior.
- The second thing that Kelsey did that was a less shocking to me was telling me about a minor vehicle accident that she had in a Pima County vehicle that was not her fault. As we drove together that morning (she was driving), she told me that she was “able to get a $10,000 check from her personal insurance company for a crick in her neck”, and that she “wouldn’t mind if that happened again.” I don’t understand how she collected from her personal insurance company from a secular fender-bender, but then I know little of insurance policy. She also stated that her ‘injury’ was minor when I inquired about its seriousness. It was a boastful claim; she wanted me to know how clever she was, and that she took advantage of a situation that resulted in inequitable financial gain. She told me of this unsolicited and out of context——we were still in the Pima County driveway on River Road, heading out to a property inspection. If there was another way to interpret that situation in the context in which it was shared with me, I am unaware of it.
Both of these instances are intimately related. In one, she took advantage of an insurance program, then boasted about the deception, and in the other she wanted me to partake of insurance fraud myself. Kelsey’s offer to me to take unethical advantage of the Pima County workman’s compensation program would have been a prosecutable offense had I revealed it, but I absolutely believe that I would have come out on the short end of the stick sooner than later. Brain, her boss, believes that she does no wrong and is amazing as a manager. Neither is verifiably true, indicating his aloofness and lack of attention. I have never been so disappointed and disgusted with an employer; my 38-years of gainful work experience (22 with the U of A and 9 with the Desert Museum) speaks for itself. Fifteen of those years was in management, so I know how a supervisor should act, and how they should not. Kelsey’s dishonest and discriminatory behaviors also speak for themselves.
So, that is the person behind the ‘nice’ and ‘professional’ individual that everyone gets to see at work in the Pima County Conservation and Land Resources department. I strongly suspect that Ellie, my peer there at the time, and others at Pima County have heard the first story about Kelsey’s “neck crick” for $10k. I can’t help but recall an episode of “Better Call Saul”, where a neck-brace was worn but was all for show. It would be a simple thing to prove that these situations occurred, if needed, and those familiar with it have assured me that they would step-up if necessary. When this blog gets reposted as planned, it will be out there to get the attention that Pima County deserves for allowing a middle manager to continually behave so unprofessionally.
