Budget Cuts

[LittleD]

Wondering if any other people had some nasty budget cuts. My school just announced that they will not be renewing the contract of 38 teachers. Some of these teachers are my gym teacher, my lax/football coach, my history teachers and my marketing program.

One of the teachers who will be retiring next year because of this said that we only need to donate 30 cents a day to keep the school running, which for most people is less than a cup of coffe.

Not to mention the fire code, iirc there is not to be more than i think 25-28 desks in the average size class room in our district. If we make these cuts, than we will have upwards of 35 kids to a class.
My psych teacher did some math and this is what we got:This is for our current condition- If a teacher gives 1 test a week and nothing else they spend about 10 hours to grade them on top of the 50 hour weeks they have for school/pto meetings. And kids get the individual attention they need.
If cuts go through: 1 test a week goes up to 12-13 hours a night to grade the tests, and grades will go down because not everyone gets the attention they need.

The actual article: http://www.newstimes.com/default/art...ors-426933.php

[Buffalo Phil]

Not so much a Budget cut, but when this all started about a year ago (the dwindling economy) our 5 man shop was reduced to a 4 man shop.

We had to let our stockmaker take a very long vacation until we get some actual stockwork in...right now, we don't have any commissions to do any custom stocks...

[Lawn Guyland]

my school had to make some drastic cuts last year.....no more december graduation, they cut our nursing program...and a bunch of other major stuff people were not happy about

[Bigbike]

We have cut some hours at my work, but Im getting way more due to my boss(the owner) being sick and not coming back for the foreseeable future.

[Nick]

i got a raise at my job

[Magilla]

not too many people buying coke these days

[Ktmracer419]

not too many people buying coke these days

i trade jeep parts for coke

[BOX]

4 person customer service team cut to 3 person team & we are definitely busier now than we were when there was 4 of us!
FU corporate
& PS - thanks for no raise @ the end of 09

[crosbike]

Yacht racing business is still good so ill have a job this summer

[1cleantj]

my hours went from 55 hrs to 40... yea I still make 40 but 15 hours of OT is alot of missed money, thats for sure

[HeavyMetal]

i lost my job last summer when our studio closed due to economic hardships

so i just gave THE MAN the and started (ok, continued building) my own biz

[Quartney]

my company just had its 2nd wave of lay offs and is offically going under another name tomorow.

and management has no fucking idea what the hell theyre doing. today at 4...the last work hour before we go live on oracle....they call a meeting to decide how to do half the products that we do

[ninetysix-ex-jay]

I just got a job offer two weeks ago. I have another company reviewing my resume and I'm waiting for a reply from Pilgrim Nuclear Station in Massachusetts.

I didn't get a call back from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission so they can go themselves


Currently though, I'm broke

[Tom]

the Air Force is firing 6000 people by july 2011. anybody with any kind of marks on their record is startin to sweat. one dude in my squadron already has a date for discharge. not to mention recruiting has basically stopped... i cant even tell my friends looking for jobs to try and sign up since theyll just get told to come back next year.

this economy=

[BOX]

today at 4...the last work hour before we go live on oracle....

I use Oracle for entering sales orders... it sucks & apparently we are switching to a different version later on this year.