Monday, April 27, 2009

Mixed messages

Mid last week I attended a meeting with our City Manager… his message: we have no money, some of you will lose your jobs, the jobs are not coming back…

So late last week I received a credit card offer… I haven’t received a credit card offer in months… (T. and I have good credit… the kind that makes car dealers start to drool, its probably because we don’t drive the cars they think we can afford.) The same day we received an offer from our mortgage holder to refinance… Is the credit crunch starting to ease?

Today I attended a meeting with my work group… (labeled “MANDATORY” in the email.) The message… first the bad news, We have of 32 positions in our department, 4 have been eliminated… they are gone… the good news, only one of the 4 positions is currently staffed… the others are budgeted, but no one currently is in place, or they are retiring, so only one person will lose her job. She does have bumping rights. It sucks to be her (and it may suck to be someone else should she decide to bump another employee (outside our department)). For the rest of us we can relax for the time being. Or not. And we still need to get all the work done.

Randy

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