Tami Uhler
The Auburn Journal says that Tami Uhler going back to work for Placer County is raising concerns and has a union boss complaining of nepotism.
The problem with a charge of nepotism is that it implies that Tami wouldn’t have gotten that job without Kirk’s help. That’s not just a huge leap — it’s demonstrably false.
I wrote this comment on the AJ site:
This “controversy” is pretty ridiculous. Anybody who knows Tami Uhler knows — no offense to Kirk — but she didn’t get her qualifications from Kirk. She was a deputy district attorney for Placer County, and a darned good one, when they got married back in 95 or 96.
Show me an unqualified person getting a job on the basis of who their spouse is, and I’ll be the first to call it nepotism. That’s not anywhere close to the same galaxy as Tami Uhler.
Tami has enough of a reputation and history with Placer County that I have no doubt there is no nepotism, unfair hiring practices or anything of the sort going on. Seriously, if Kirk wasn’t a supervisor and she called up her old colleagues, they would have hired her on the spot to fill that role because of her qualifications.
I wonder whether that union boss’s wife will appreciate his assumption that women get their skills and qualifications for a job via marriage.
