New employment policy effective April 1, 2005. Non-students employees (7/8Yeah, most of the folks who work at the Writing Center (myself included) are non-students. Apparently we're not allowed to work more than 90 days at a stretch. This will, as the email states, create a bit of a problem for the Writing Center--namely, 7 of the 8 employees would be ineligible to work come the end of June.
of our staff members) are now under this new 90/30 day appointment
policy. As it stands, if you are a non-student, you can only work for 90
days at a time before being terminatated for 30 days; afterwhich you
may be reappointed. Yes, this means a gap in employment.
However, we are pursuing special status provisions because of the necessity of
our staff to work beyond the 90 days at a time.
Now, one way to fix this is to let us go right after finals week and then rehire us in June after 30 days. The only problem with this is that it leaves a monthlong gap in our finances, something which none of us can really afford. My boss is pursuing special provisions, as she mentions, to attempt to keep us employed without a gap. But it's frightening to think that I may not be able to work because of some stupid new policy which they implimented over the weekend and didn't tell us about until after the fact. I mean, three or four of us won't be working beyond August anyway, if things go as planned, but that just means that we need to work straight through until then so we can afford to move or whatever.
It all just strikes me as ridiculously stupid. It's like the university wants to punish people for having graduated and, indirectly, punish those whom we help at work. The folks who work at the Writing Center really need to be graduated already or in a graduate program, because otherwise we don't have the abilities and experience necessary to really work effectively.
Anyway, not exactly a great way to start the work week, especially since I only got a few hours of sleep last night. Daylight Savings Time is playing merry hell with my sleep schedule.
~chuck
Song of the Moment: Tom Petty, "Into the Great Wide Open"
3 comments:
Geez, catch a break, will ya? Seriously, you need to get away from there. Too many problems.
Mel
Seriously. They're trying to get us special exemptions, since this place would collapse if 7 of the 8 Writing Consultants suddenly had to up and quit all at the same time for a month, so hopefully it won't be a problem.
But yeah, it's definitely time to get the hell out of here. Just gotta find a place to go.
Wouldn't you also lose your apartment during that 30 days? Why don't they just shoot you and get it over with. I mean, it's not fair to just play with you first...
Post a Comment