In a statement, Brooklyn Councilmember Lincoln Restler pointed to the contrast between the dcpi’s staffing surge and Mayor Eric Adams’s cuts to other city services, including hundreds of layoffs in the Department of Buildings. “It’s stunning to see the nypd Communications Department more than double to 86 staff while so many of our City agencies are struggling to fulfill their mandates without workers.”
I feel like marketing away issues instead of actually fixing problems has seeped into all levels of management in any American organization. My hospital just had a mandatory meeting for all employees about changing patients perception of the treatment, not the actual quality of the treatment.
Should we perhaps use the millions of dollars you spent on outsourcing marketing research and surveys on something useful like more support staff? You know the thing that every provider has been complaining about since COVID? No, we just need to learn a new acronym to improve patient care…