Or how about a nigerian run money laundering joke of a university call Southern at New Orleans. The sole purpose of the school is a front for William Jefferson to pay off his friends and backers.
I wish I had the opportunity to experience a furlough... unemployed since graduation. On the bright side, I may finally have my first interviews coming up... in Baton Rouge, no less. In addition, my wife has had hours cut and is facing imminent dismissal. Time to move back in with the folks... :dis: x Crosses fingers for employment in BR x
You are absolutely correct. Tough times hits everyone hard. I can understand completely the various departments fighting to limit their budget cuts; I would do the same. But sometimes it seems that the attitude is "Don't cut you; don't cut me; cut the guy behind the tree." What a shame that the constitutional amendment designed to spread out the cuts more evenly rather than protecting certain agencies at the expense of education and health care failed to pass the legislature. Hope Jindal does not give up on it.
Thanks, I'm pretty upbeat about it. I'm lucky to have family that will help me out. We're just in a tough situation as a nation and right now people should feel happy to have a job, IMO.
tenured faculty are under furlough at UGA. and now they have the biggest (at least a big) beef, because they wont work less, just get paid less. for most of the others, its an unpaid vacation/maternity/paternity leave.
I thought that was completely illegal. I know some secretaries here that are being told that when furloughs start they are not to even answer their cell phones because that can be some kind of violation.
We haven't heard how it will be implemented yet. If furloughed, effectively I will have to take a 3% pay cut, which will affect my eventual retirement pay, calculated as a percentage of my salary. LSU is stupid. They don't want to fight Civil Service. Trust me, there is still a lot of dead wood that could have been cut around here instead. Everybody knows that we won't be getting any pay raises in the next three years at least and we are being warned that there will likely be more cuts next year and perhaps the next. People with retirement options or highly marketable skills (or both) are starting to look around. For such folks, it's a lose or don't lose situation at LSU, there is no win scenario left. Greener pastures are calling and there is a brain drain already happening at LSU with lots of unfilled positions. This furlough and layoff cycle will hurry this up. LSU will save a lot of state money, but will be retaining the dead wood while many of the lost ones will be taking their sponsored grant funding with them.
