Monday, May 20, 2013

Just Pisses Me Off, Thats All

President in front of paid for  $4.5 million building, but killing jobs.

Just got an email from the CFO of my former University. The bottom line is this: TU is outsourcing maintenance. As I understand it, all the maintenance staff will go as of the end of June. Then a company takes over. They may or may not hire some of the staff back.
Doesn’t matter. This is a small-minded nasty decision at any time, but in this economy even more so. Even worse with so many of the staff long-time employees.
This is strictly business, someone will say. This is bullshit I say. Loyalty should count for something, even if it costs a bit more. The de-personalization of TU began several years ago with expedience favored over compassion. My advice to everyone left up there is this: Watch your back, because for sure no one else is. And job hunting probably wouldn’t be a bad idea either.

Just saying.

Image: http://www.thomasu.edu/uploads/images/president-in-front-of-s-b-hall-cupola-web.jpg

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My father is one of those people being outsourced. He has been at the university for almost 10 years and this is the thanks he gets. As far as i am concerned the university can kiss my butt!!!!!!