Crap

[loracs]

We just submitted our 15% cut and now they want us to cut another 10%. I don't know how many more people that means, but it won't be pretty. Crap, Crap, Crap.

Comments

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Well, shit. :-(

[leback.livejournal.com]

This sucks. I understand that the city (along with other public bodies) is going through tough times, but I still wish it didn't mean forcing offices like yours to treat people's jobs as disposable. I wish hiring someone were seen as a long-term commitment -- like payments on a bond, or what-have-you -- that couldn't be made vulnerable to year-to-year fluctuations. Maybe it's not realistic, and I'm sure it would make fiscal planning more complicated and burdensome, but it still seems to me like a burden that's better left with the state/city/whatever as a whole than dumped on the individuals who get cut (and the ones left covering for them, too). :-(

Good luck to you, anyway -- may this, somehow, suck as little as possible for all concerned...

[tracytreefrog.livejournal.com]

Ahh damn!

[clever-doberman.livejournal.com]

wait, does this mean 15% of your pay, or workforce?

[loracs.livejournal.com]

It's another 10% of our general fund budget which covers workforce and supplies. There's no way to cut enough on supplies, so it will mean more lay-offs. The first set haven't taken effect yet, it has has gone through the budget office, it will go to city council in a few weeks, then it goes to personnel to figure out how the bumping will proceed for the union positions. We figure lay-off notices will go out in Oct. This increases the possibility I will be bumped around. The whole seniority thing will take personnel a while to do, we only have accurate hours/dates from 2000, before that they will need to go to paper files. fun, fun, fun

[loracs.livejournal.com]

With 40% of the city's employees eligible for retirement in the next 5 years, they have already been looking at succession planning. That's a lot of institutional memory. What these cuts will do is lose some of the newest (and often youngest) employees. Exactly the core of who you need to move into the mid-level positions as the mid-level folks move into management. They already cut vacant positions and asked we keep a 7% vacancy rate (which is impossible to do until we have people quit or retire), which will only put an even greater strain on the people who remain. And, while we aren't Police or Fire, we are the backbone of their (and every other departments')IT needs. We maintain the phones (both cell and landlines), computers, radios and antennas.

[loracs.livejournal.com]

truer words were never written

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Oh, sweetie.