Posted on 07/15/2018 6:26:48 PM PDT by artichokegrower
It's a basic truism that a trip to the DMV is usually an exercise in punishing frustration not unlike the outermost circles of hell in Dante's Inferno, a "house of suffering" where "no thing gleams" and the air is filled with sighs of despair.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
A California State employee speaking the truth. In San Francisco no less. Give one plus million illegal aliens driver's licenses and things go all to hell.
add the more than 50 languages for the written test for F’s sake..
If it weren’t such a national tragedy (and a personal one for any sane people remaining in them), watching the implosion of all the Dhimmicrat controlled urban shitholes would be great fun.
The three DMV’S I’ve had business with in Ohio are all great. Never there more than 10-15 minutes, decorated nicely with interesting memorabilia, and friendly customer service.
Sorry San Francisco. Not sorry. Haha.
Jerry Brown is happy.
I’m in and out of my local DMV office in 10 to 15 minutes. Sure must suck to live in SF (no pun intended).
Not that way here in Texas.
If you get an appointment at the CA DMV it will help.
Something not said in this report is a chronic short staffing in urban DMV offices and DMV employees reporting for their normal shift in more rural offices being told ‘you’re going to SF today’ or other liberal hell holes.
The second hand quoted DMV employee might be from an office like Colusa who was forced to go to the SF DMV when they reported for their shift that morning. (A benefit of this is that the DMV in Colusa is charged for the shift and travel expenses (and bridge tolls) so the SF DMV can report that they are under budget for staffing...)
So of course there’s no reason for urban DMV offices to expand their staff to handle their work loads when they can swipe DMV employees from across the state. Oh, and of course, these emptied DMV offices also are now suffering hours long waits as what should have been a fully staffed office is now with a bare skeleton crew.
An appointment??
An example: I made an appointment at the Oroville DMV just after the urban DMVs started pulling employees to them. It took 3 hours to get an abstract printed.
Without an appointment at the Yuba City DMV which has figured a way around the pulling of employees, it took 15 minutes. (They under-report the available number of employees and assign the morning transfers to those on extended leave who aren’t reporting anyway. Not sure how much longer they’ll be allowed to get away with it.)
Imagine that! Public servants who actual see their job is serving the public.
The DMV is run pretty well in the backward Southern State I live in.
It was such a joy to move away from a big city in CA to a mid-sized town in AZ. I don’t think I’ve waited more than 15 minutes to be seen since the move. Usually in about 5-10 or even less. The people are usually friendlier too (except for that Gay guy a couple of weeks ago).
There was a comedian who joked about how the Welfare/SSN office workers and the DMV workers would rotate jobs because they all seemed the same. Maybe Robin Williams.
1 million licenses to illegals and now the California driver’s license is worthless for ID with the TSA. Gotta get a “Real ID” to get on a plane. Aren’t open borders grand?
Last Feb. I spent about 20 minutes renewing my DL here in Durango, CO. Not a bad experience at all. And good for five years.
Getting a "Real ID" in NY State cost me 3 hours last month. That's because they needed "two sets of eyes" on all documents, and one of the two sets was on a lunch break when the first set of eyes finally got round to me.
Last Thursday, the wait at a DMV in the Sacramento Area was 5 hours! There were at least 22 windows and 8 had staff at them that I could see.
“The DMV is run pretty well in the backward Southern State I live in.“
Same here.
Depends. The Drivers license super centers are great. Unfortunately, our city of a quarter million folks didn't get one and our local office is an overcrowded hell-hole. It's worth the drive to the super center a smaller nearby town with better political connections.
For tags, I discovered that the tax office has unpublicized evening hours once a week. No lines, the folks are relaxed and friendly... I hope it stays a secret.
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