I was wrong.
What I failed to realize is that Trapp has a modus operandi. It's something I learned about later, from Allentown employees and with my own eyes. Basically, her gimmick is to befriend certain people and play them off against each other. She did that to me, and I fell for it. She was more than willing to trash other cabinet level officials behind their backs while befriending others. It was only after the time clock issue, when either she or her husband posted that "entitled spoiled brat government employee" remark on my blog, that I finally got wise to her. What I have since learned is that if she wants to find an "entitled spoiled brat government employee," all she needs to do is look in a mirror.
As she made clear to DA John Morganelli with respect to the time clocks, she very much believes in a different set of rules for different classes of people. The ruling class can pretty much do what it wants, while the underclass better punch in.
At one time, she was Director of Human Resources in Allentown. I have checked her out with employees there. People besides Mike Twining, whom she rewarded with a job here and trips to Vegas and New Orleans for supporting her.
When she was hired in Allentown, the first thing she did was force everyone out in the HR department and recreate it in her own image. She brought Courtney Kendzejeski into Allentown, and now she brought Courtney from Allentown to NorCo. Mike Twining, a 911 supervisor who caught her eye and became a "crime analyst," was also imported here.
In Allentown, she befriended Allentown cops and building maintenance workers, telling them all about certain surgically induced physical enhancements she had done to herself. This should be private, but she proclaimed it to them. According to one Allentown worker, "I went into HR one day and she was in an ultra tight short skirt and she was leaning against a desk regaling the guys with her 'body'."
Seeking to be the center of attention, she would wear provocative outfits in Allentown and had to be told to tone it down.
As for the Allentown cops she befriended, most of them now have Facebook profiles under assumed names or not at all. She would Facebook friend them and then use information obtained to hurt those who could be sacrificed.
In just one year in Allentown, she fired or forced 23 people to retire.
Some employee advocate.
In Allentown, she also started the practice of forcing office managers to attend weekly "training" sessions.
In Northampton County, Trapp has followed the same pattern. She cleaned out the HR department and remade it in her own image. She brought a hoverboard to the courthouse and actually used it to make copies.
She admonishes employees if she catches them in sneakers or casual garb, while she dresses however she wants. Several months ago, an employee in the Juvenile Justice Center passed away unexpectedly, and Trapp went down to console employees ... in flip flops.
Perhaps the biggest illustration of her belief in a different set of rules for the ruling class is her penchant for bringing her dog to work.
She hides it in her purse.
Any county employee who did that would be disciplined if not fired. But just as she drives without a license, she does what she wants at the courthouse.
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We all no this SO WHY IS SHE and her goon squad still there? Why is the DA allowing this.sje has no rewards to people future is she related to Trump YOUR Fired
The first thing that needs to be done if anyone has the power to do so is get rid of the goon squad. Get rid of Keen he is the absoult worst person for this job everyone here at the jail is walking on eggshells the inmates are not the proublem he is
How do you tamper with a doctor that puts you on restriction..and get a call from human resources stating if u can't work 16 hrs then find another job tell me how this is possible are we not allowed to get sick we are not allowed to stand up for our self and were not allowed to get sick trapp rules and yet John Brown...is always there to bail her out people we have to stick together and vote enough is enough
Unless you and your families come out and vote, John Brown will be re-elected. Republicans are crowing they have this in the bag bc county workers no longer vote. I know quite a few who just won't even register.
Amy is a useful tool for her boss.
her purpose is to install fear of HR.
anyone who crosses her is marked for elimination.
by doing this she scare the other managers to go along with whatever she wants.
no one will suggest a different way to do things or not do things as that may put a target on you.
you do not want to be the first person to stop clapping when Stalin shows up.
Amy is very smart but her failing is that she tends to believe that her opinion is the only correct opinion.
she also fails to realize that different people may look at a problem with a better solution then hers but it is rejected out of hand--because it is not hers.
as to the ruling class--her attitude is one of "the peasants will do as i say"
the peasants are merely irritants to be lorded over.
it does wonders for the morale of folks in her "peasant class".
Be chill man. She is a hot biker chick and they are freaks. She is all right and knows how to party.
Does she really not have a driver's license?
You may be right about some of this, but since when is the HR director an employee advocate. She works for the administration and the taxpayers that is were her allegiance must be.
She works for the taxpayers. She should always do what's in their best interests. Sometimes that means backing management, but sometimes it means backing the employee. If management is causing seasoned, efficient employees to leave then management needs to be dealt with. High turnover in social and other essential services is fiscally irresponsible and leads to a decrease in the level of service offered our citizens.
Welcome to the world. Nobody likes HR.
I don't think she works for anyone but Amy Trapp. Do you really think she works for the taxpayer by increasing her staff 10 fold, trainings in Vegas, Popcorn machines? I could see if the increase in staff did anything to help employees or managers, but from what I can see, NOTHING has changed. Same policies are not enforced, or enforced by some and not others. Just a big bloated office of A kissers with no function other than to serve Ms Trapp.
When I asked Fran in Allentown what happened that
Amy left he replied she didn't workout here so we showed
Her the door.
Northampton wake up she will promise anything and deliver
Nothing.
"telling them all about certain surgically induced physical enhancements she had done to herself"
did she have an arm replaced with a laser cannon? cause that would be cool.
My favorite thing about county HR is the little sign near her office that states, "we don't sell magazine subscriptions here so take your issues somewhere else". How professional! Isn't it HRs job to deal with issues?
Cause we all know what happened to Fran, right? That's a reliable source.
The comment at 5:46 is offensive. Please consider deleting it!
I think she is doing the job she was hired for.
@5:46 That can't be true because they are never in on Friday. She comes in late and leaves early. Yet, she makes others use the finger punch clock.
Also, how does her employees send emails before 8:30 AM but yet punch at after. They wear flip flops but don't get reprimanded but others do. Definitely "do as I say and not as I do" dictatorship. Their day is coming and the employees will be cheering as she takes all her decorative items out of the courthouse.
Her attire is hideous!
She is robbing the County by not being there and I bet she isn't taking vacation days for that time.
Brown is too stupid to see her as an addition to his downfall.
Some should check to see if is where she says she is or cheating us taxpayers by not working and basking in the sun. Do the jobs you are elected and appointed to do!!! We will remember you at election time!!!
When she came into Allentown she immediately became friends with the FOP and IAFF. Her deal making skills were exquisite. However, just like the snake in the grass she is, she turned on these locals and used her tools against them. However, she became the perfect plant for "Fed Ed" and team and when she ran her usefulness into the ground, they dumped her like a rock. She knew of the blatant corruption going on with the rotund one and company and was summarily dispatched, like others who didn't go along with the un-honorable mayor. Ask Stribula what he thinks of her now!
So Northampton County hired a Pawloski refugee and the Courthouse Gang is upset. The previous human resources director negotiated the Allentown Police pension fiasco and She was also welcomed to Northampton County
"Does she really not have a driver's license?"
She was cited and found guilty of driving with an expired license at the time of her accident earlier this year.
https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/MDJReport.ashx?docketNumber=MJ-03203-TR-0000890-2017
"did she have an arm replaced with a laser cannon? cause that would be cool."
She likes to brag about what she had done, but I don't feel comfortable going into detail.
"The comment at 5:46 is offensive. Please consider deleting it!"
Done. I will not allow vulgar comments like that about anyone.
Did she ever brag to you or are you just being sexist as you say you don't like people to be?
She didn't work in Allentown at the time of the "pension fiasco"
"She didn't work in Allentown at the time of the "pension fiasco""
No one said that Trapp did. That comment was directed at a Trapp predecessor.
"Did she ever brag to you or are you just being sexist as you say you don't like people to be?"
I have never heard her talk about her surgical procedures. She did her bragging to Allentown employees. There is nothing sexist about my objection to this kind of discussion. I consider it unprofessional in a work setting. Just as no male should discuss a penile implant in the workplace, no female should brag at the workplace about her medically induced enhancements. It's unprofessional, and a human resources professional should know that.
"You may be right about some of this, but since when is the HR director an employee advocate. She works for the administration and the taxpayers that is were her allegiance must be. "
That is how she described herself.
" "did she have an arm replaced with a laser cannon? cause that would be cool."
She likes to brag about what she had done, but I don't feel comfortable going into detail. "
As I suspected. Laser cannon.
So you have no first hand knowledge and are simply defaming her based on rhetoric from an unnamed source? Interesting...That's classy AND sexist. Good job you he man woman hater. So much for your liberal view!
1:02, I have heard about Trapp's braggadocio from both NorCo and Allentown employees. I decline to name these sources, but could easily prove that she is a braggart and exhibitionist.
4.59
"She works for the administration and the taxpayers that is were her allegiance must be."
so acting unprofessionally is her boss's fault then.
She told multiple workers about her surgeries, so either she lied or she was unprofessional. I agree that it should not be outed on a public forum but I am not Bernie and I know what she said. People bashing Bernie will not lead to truth. Truth comes from our cores: in this case Amy chose to continue a pattern of grandiose and self praise while she decimated others. That is the truth. Don't beat up Bernie for that.
Amy is very attractive, highly intelligent, well educated, good at her job and is in a position of power. It's understandable how some individuals may take issue with any or all of her attributes.
I'd agree Amy is very attractive. I'd agree she is in a position of power (that she is abusing). She has five years of college, and that could mean she is well educated. I have no reason to conclude that she has more than an average amount of intelligence, though she apparently is cunning. I completely disagree that she she is good at her job. She's been terrible from any perspective, and needs to go.
Keep it clean, 6:49.
She has a bachelor and masters degree. That is more than five years...
I don't think anyone's taking issue with her attributes. Unprofessional behavior and short-sightedness, however, I take issue with.
"She has a bachelor and masters degree."
Wrong. Many Master degrees are just one year.
The average for a Masters in HR is 12-18 months.
It's quite obvious you have a personal vendetta against her, anyone that attends council meetings or streams them would realize her accomplishments and the good job she has done since coming to the county. All of which is mysteriously left off of this... Blog.
I have nothing personal against her. She is a bad HR Director who lords it over others and abuses her authority. I have covered her extensively and it took me until the time clock issue to see that what others were saying is right. She is widely resented by staff and is costing the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars because she spends like a drunken sailor.
Listen. People can agree to disagree. Sometimes we disagree because there are different sides. I have yet to see how the trend with Amy is different. If people want to just focus on one part, would like to know what was presented that was incorrect. What, exactly was wrong? She told people about surgeries? She fired all of Allentown hr dept? She hired new people? Before you call out a liar, always know who the liar is.
7.18
well kindly inform all of us on her good deeds that benefited the taxpayer.
regale us with tales of how employees had to be restrained from carrying her around on their shoulders due to her wisdom.
feel free to educate all of us on her actions so that we can bask in the knowledge that any bad word said against her is just sour grapes from "entitled spoiled brat government employee" folks.
7.36
there are plenty of examples of good and bad behavior on Amy's part.
plenty more than shown here.
however if someone was to mention those acts they would be easily tracked down by a vindictive HR dept.
so Amy has accomplished one goal-- instill fear in the employees both management and hourly.
the DA told Amy to take a flying leap because he knew he held the upper hand.
anyone else is subject to the wrath of HR
What time does she crank up that popcorn machine? Does she serve it with extra butter? This county is insane.
I highly doubt that she has her dog registered. She probably doesn't even have a dog license!
Christ, O'Hare now you are quibbling about her Masters Degree? Many do go for two years, hard to do in one unless you can get the classes you need and not have to work. You are really a mess. Everyone knows you have a problem with strong women.
When will you leave this poor young woman alone?
I merely refuted someone who claimed her college education lasted more than 5 years.
Omg....leave that women alone
So after all these comments, she is so arrogant that she wears a very clingy, white sweater yesterday to show off even more what she paid for. She is totally disgusting.
6:17 why does it matter what she wears? Because of some sexist double standard?
Her shirt yesterday was not inappropriate. It was fitted. Many wear fitted clothing. Get over yourself.
You spread "truth" yet hide behind the shroud of anonymity. Were you told first hand or are these assumptions on the part of employees and this is whosper down the alley? People make assumptions all the time. I have interacted with her many times and she has never spoken of any of these items.
The Green eyed monster is out at the county. You people need to get to work and stop worrying about what the mean old HR lady is wearing.
Firsthand. Wait till she turns on you.
I agree, focusing on what she wears is unnecessary. Stick to the topic at hand, her performance and how she is running the county. All I know about her is that a seasoned, well respected and liked county employee reached out to her department for assistance in understanding how a county policy applied to her situation and she was called insubordinate and threatened with termination. FOR ASKING A QUESTION.
Trapp was brought in by Brown and Allen to get rid of the employees in the HR department and she accomplished that. She then turned on other departments with the same mission and will continue on as Brown and Allen's puppet until she has decimated the balance of the county workforce. None of these well-paid honchos is to be trusted. They do many things without accountability and are not in any way advocating for employees of the county. Send them all packing!
So you have been told. Were you there to hear what happened?
"I agree, focusing on what she wears is unnecessary. Stick to the topic at hand, her performance and how she is running the county."
Bingo. I get the jealousy angle. I frankly don't care how she dresses. I do care that she admonishes others for their attire when she fails to follow the rules herself.
"All I know about her is that a seasoned, well respected and liked county employee reached out to her department for assistance in understanding how a county policy applied to her situation and she was called insubordinate and threatened with termination. FOR ASKING A QUESTION."
Amazing.
Ever winter when inclement weather is in the forecast my supervisor sends an email reminding us that we are expected to be at work, no matter what, unless the governor declares a state of emergency. The next day my co-workers and I brave the elements to get to work and serve the people of Northampton County. But who doesn't show up? The supervisor. And this is the crux of the issue.
Sure, supervisors enjoy a more "relaxed" set of standards. They can come and go as they please... fine. But when you send the message that your safety and well-being is more important than that of the rank-and-file then that's an issue and it breeds resentment.
Workers are scared to use their time, take their breaks, and are basically walking on eggshells while these supervisors instill fear and mistrust. If you stand up for yourself you're demeaned and there's a target on your back. Management tries to convince your co-workers that you're the problem and they try to turn them against you. If you don't fall in line they retaliate in whatever way they can. Now, more than ever, the workers need to stand together. It's not outrageous to ask to be treated in a decent manner. Dedicated employees should be treated with an ounce of respect. When employees are respected everyone, including the citizens of our great county, wins.
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She has a bachelor and masters degree. That is more than five years... September 26, 2017 at 7:09 PM
FYI- you can obtain a bachelor's and master's in 5 years or less, depending on your intellect, how many courses you can handle each semester, and taking summer courses. I have a bachelor's (with a major and a minor) and a master's, and did it in 5 years by busting my hump.
Plus she is a Dallas Cowboys fan, so you know she is a fool!
In Allentown she modified dress code and shoes that made a "flip flopping" sound were included as acceptable. Before they were not acceptable.
Was it a stupid question. Because I hear there are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
Whatever enhancement she had they didn't work
I work in Allentown. You have it backwards. Shoes that made the "flip flopping sound" were banned because employees wore plastic old navy flip flops and that was unprofessional. Or maybe you just didn't follow the rules...
Ugliness is a soul sickness that delves deep with in a snakes being. No matter how one tries to cover it with paint and perfume the stance is still overwhelming.
In my experience only people that don't do their jobs, don't do their jobs properly, break rules or try to manipulate rules are the only ones that come in contact with HR. For everyone else, they don't even know where HR is. It's quite clear by these comments what employees are the ones with the issues. Looks like the woman rules with an iron fist, if you don't like it..... LEAVE!
Then yours is a very narrow experience.
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"Looks like the woman rules with an iron fist,"
with out a doubt.
care to explain how her being a hypocrite is acceptable?
that is the problem.
Since she is suppose to enforce the policies, her attire does matter! She is supposed to be setting an example as a cabinet member. What kind of example is she setting??? The dress code is not followed by her and the other HR people. How can she enforce it on others???
That will be the next policy she changes so she can wear unprofessional attire. She is not an HR professional. She needs to go!
Eh, dress codes are overrated. We don't work for a fancy corporation and most of us don't have the disposable incomes to dress like we do. I just think that there are more important things for her to be judged on.
What about the attire is inappropriate? Fitted, yeah... showing a ton of skin? No.... showing *gasp* cleavage - doesn't happen. I don't think I've seen the lady's knees! Where in the dress code does it say no form fitting clothes? Because if it does prohibit form fitting or even ill-fitting clothing, then the vast majority of the county workforce is in violation!
Again, it's a sexist double standard... when women are of a certain power level, people tend to attack their physical appearance to try to undercut them... it's stupid!
And did you work full time while doing so?
Agreed. My point is that Trapp will admonish others while she herself thumbs her nose at the dress code. Different strokes for different folks.
10:14, careful. You seem to know a bit too much about Amy not to be here.
Sociopathy can have a very fine and long arc.
@ 9:05 -- Amy, you are soooooo vain. You are dressing to attract the male attention. That worked at first but they see through you. I can't believe you husband lets you out of the house looking like that. I guess you are trying to make up for all the bullying you probably took growing up. So sad!
@6:18 - not Amy, just a female employee tired of double standards & watching women's visual characteristics being attacked because people don't like something they've said or done. I've seen many unkempt men in management roles, at different places of work, but no one attacks their attire or their physiological characteristics (i.e. he's short, he's got a giant forehead, he looks like he just rolled out of bed)...
9:05
Very true, if Amy was a man, these sexist attacks would never occur.
"not Amy, just a female employee tired of double standards "
Sure. How many female employees know that Trapp worked full time while going for her master's degree and how long it took her? Next thing we know, you'll be signing as Dan Trapp again.
You're attributing an awful lot of comments to the same person, O'Hare; do you know something you're not sharing? Can you tell that 4 or 5 separate comments came from the same individual? Or are you just assuming?
Not a lot. Two or three.
Karma is a bitch! Enjoy it Ms Trapp. It's well deserved
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