Antoine Flowers’ made-up résumé and another Dallas hiring malfunction
The last department within the city of Dallas that could handle another hiring controversy is Communications and Information Services. Only 18 months ago, the department’s director, Worris Levine, resigned after a Dallas Morning News investigation uncovered seven fellow church members from The Chosen Vessel Cathedral, a Fort Worth Pentecostal church where Levine was an associate pastor, had been hired to work in his department.
Many of the hires were done without the customary documentation. Some were hired as temporary workers, allowing them to bypass civil service rules, and then quickly moved up to become managers. Others were hired at elevated starting salaries.
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Those lessons apparently weren’t learned.
Last month, Antoine Deon Flowers was arrested and charged with stealing 12 city-owned iPads worth $10,000 and trying to pawn them. Flowers was manager of the city’s desktop computer systems — which is in the Communications and Information Services department.
The complete story at http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20130318-editorial-antoine-flowers-made-up-resume-and-another-dallas-hiring-malfunction.ece .
[font color=green]If I had only known to lie on my résumé! 
An $83,000 per year job with minimal relevant experience seems like a dream to me.[/font]