Today the news came down that the budget cuts we've been waiting to hear official word about will be greater than anticipated. It's going to be painful. More painful for some than for others. I've been giving the boss scenarios and projections to determine just how our areas will be affected, potentially. We're preparing worst case scenarios...I guess partly so that if we're given better news it will be a relief and we'll feel like we dodged a bullet. This issue is going to be consuming my universe for a while. Consider this begging your pardon in advance if I'm distracted and don't post here much...I got my car back early today. It's so nice to have functioning gages again and not have to drive by feel. I still want a new car, though.
While I was waiting to pick up the car from the dealer, there was a ruckus across the street. Apparently someone car jacked someone at gunpoint in the parking lot (of one of the shopping plazas I frequent...in broad daylight), and took off. When the owner of the stolen car called the police they activated the On*Star system to track it. A chase ensued, and the thief wrecked the car a few blocks away and the wreckage promptly caught fire.
I'm going to lunch with one of the managers tomorrow. I called to schedule a meeting with her to talk through a few questions I have about some projects I'm about to embark on, and she offered to take me to lunch. I really do like and respect some of the people I work with (I know it doesn't always seem like it, if you're just going by what gets posted here), but she's at the top of the list. She's almost mentoring me, and I really appreciate it a lot. It's what I'd been missing after my original boss left to go to another department, and it makes more of a difference than I'd realized.
For a couple of days there was a banner hanging outside of my building. They took it down some time between last night and this morning, so I'm glad I thought to take a picture for posterity:
I wonder why they took it down...?
Of course, my sentences were full of typos and I just had to make a load of corrections so as to not look like an idiot.
5 comments:
I saw that damn banner on Monday, and just did not have time to run into your office and scream with the funnies!!!
I hope budget cuts don't affect too much. they already can't hand out syllabi anymore. its illegal. and way too paperlishous. say again? we have to print everything ourselves? good thing its my last semester. I've had just about enough of the mismanaged shenningans of this institution.
god if I ever got car jacked I'd kill the person. key in the eye, metal bat in swing, the whole 9.
well, I'd try my damndest. be safe!! dammit I hate where you live. SP is like, so shitty.
YAY for the car!
Don't blame us, blame the state - but feel free to mostly blame the previous Governor. The overall condition that our economy was left in at the culmination of his term can be boiled down to "crappy". It is going to take years for the state to recover, and every institution and agency associated with state government will feel the effects. Next year is shaping up to be harder than this year, so be glad you'll be done with it by then.
Hey, I live on the edge of Crackville, what do you expect? I keep my car doors locked and I'm careful (I don't even go to the store or get gas after the sun sets if I can help it)...it's really not as bad as you think it is anyway. Or maybe I'm just used to it?
HA! that sign cracked me up. In the Navy we'd never forget the L in colege.
/ j/k
It's funny how the budget game goes. Up here we were told 18% cuts. Now we are all happy it was only 8%
"I'm so glad they didn't take the whole arm! Wasn't it nice of them to leave a couple fingers. Be grateful."
ps I love that pic. the first one.
its my fave part of the deleted blooper things.
I don't blame the institution; I blame big gov.
no worries.
I know. That part always makes me giggle. That, and the part with the Jack Russell terrier as Arthur steals the transporter from Slartibartfast.
And blustacon, we've been told 15% - possibly on top of the 4% we already sacrificed earlier in the year. So I'm hopeful that the same scenario will play out for us, and the worst case we're planning for turns out to be a still-not-great-but-not-as-bad-as-originally-thought situation.
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