Connecticut State Workers need your help...

[syank]

I am a Connecticut State Employee, and our Governor has issued us about 2800 lay offs right at Christmas set to take effect right after the new year, so many CT workers and families get a nice warm Christmas present for all our hard work we've done.

The Lay off's are permanent meaning none of the 2800 will be called back to work, and still the Governor has promised more lay offs after the first of the year...

Now, I am not getting laid off, I have 4 years on the job here, but many people I know are losing their jobs, many of these people have families, In my Department we are already dangerously short staffed, and he is laying off our whole last Academy class...

If he is willing to do this to Public saftey personel even after everything that has happened after 9-11 imagine what he is going to do to teachers and transportation workers...and if the Governor follows through with his promises I might get hit when he lays off more next month...

SO, I am asking for all your help..

A website has been instrumental in letting the Legislature here in Connecticut know we are against these Layoffs, Please spam the heck out of it!!

Once at this site, enter a Connecticut Zip Code, a prepared letter will pop up addressed to a local Representative, Just hit send!!

Please send as many letters as you can by December 18th!

This is the date the Governor has set for the special session..

Connecitcut Zipcodes!

Go Here!!

http://capwiz.com/cfepe/issues/alert/?alertid=922501&type=ST

[Kewlhand`tek]

unfortunately other states arent doing this.......and you know the irony is .....they probably are firing effective employees if any exist lol. and keeping the dead wood

[null and void]

Yes, It "proves" they really need all those tax dollars...

[Texas Eagle]

A faux paus on my part. How embarrassing.

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[stylin19a]

In Illinos, the Gov. offered incentives for long-term employees to retire.
10,000 took 'em up on it. 3500 more than expected.
Half of the positions will be re-filled with entry level salaries, saving the state 165 million by 7/01/03.

Has your Gov. offered anything like this ? If not, suggest it.

[The Electrician]

I am a LE officer, if you lay off all of us who do you suppose will transport all of your states prisoners, protect you when you come into Courthouses, arrest dangerous criminals, monitor parolees?

Now, isn't that statement just a teeny, tiny, little bit overstated? I live in Connecticut, and unless I missed it, nobody has proposed to lay off all LE officers working for the state. In fact, nobody even proposed laying off half of the LE officers working for the state. Overblown rhetoric will get you exactly nowhere on FR. Too many Freepers have their critical thinking skills intact.

[dasboot]

Sorry:

Re-read your post....you're not gettin' laid-off. And yer probably a trooper. But you might want to mention to all your buddies that Massachusetts has the biggest, bloatedest, wastefullest, money-is-no-object state police force in the nation. Maybe they could latterally transfer right in to the spend-fest?

My buddy in the MSP rides a horse for a cool $100,000+/year! They got helicopters and planes and lots of detail time at Logan and the Big Dig! Heck, a lot of these guys are making more than the Guvnah!

I once saw a major in the MSP land in a helecopter at a local grammar school to review and address the graduates of the DARE program. That's a sweet gig!

[fight_truth_decay]

That's more like it! ROFLMAO

[syank]

72 State Marshals, 192 Corrections Officers, 35 State Probation Officers, 12 Parole Officers... Sorry he left the State Police alone this round...

[MrNeutron1962]

Cry me a river. Why not just go work at a casino, you know, with your pre-european American buddies. After all, they are just so wonderful.

Time to get a real job and stop sucking my life blood.

Connecticut, the death by a 1000 taxes state.

[Adder]

"Contact your state representative and state senator today and ask them to pass solutions that don't balance the budget on the backs of state employees."

Where else will the state budget be balanced except from the area of the largest resource: Labor? The state produces nothing, has no real material costs. I suppose one could defer that purchase of a few dump trucks and motor graders. Maybe the state could close a few parks or sell them to raise cash, making them income-producing[taxable]properties again.
If programs are cut, as should be the case, then state employees should be cut.
My suspicion is that your legislature increased spending exponentially during the "boom" times and now is expecting the slaves...er..taxpayers to make up the shortfalls.
So tell us, state worker, where does the money come from except by reducing the size of the labor pool? Nothing personal, state worker, but too bad.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Actually, us pre-european americans ARE wonderful, thank you very much ;0) (and we are modest, too)

[pageonetoo]

guess its time to get a job, huh?

[metesky]

Someone told me to try this site for help, sorry I took up your time.. Thank you.

Someone was pulling your leg. Sorry you wasted your time. You're welcome. Goodbye.

[metesky]

syank signed up 2002-12-17

Hey, you didn't sign up until today! How can you be posting yesterday? Very strange.

[metesky]

Back in the '70s and '80s I used to drink with a MSP captain and Der Commandant of the Academy in Framingham.

Biggest trouble maker and whackjob I ever met in my life and I've met a lot.

[null and void]

guess its time to get a job, huh?

You might say that.

Since June when I took a 50% pay cut to keep the job alive a few months longer, I've sent out hundreds of resumes, signed up on a few web sites, had the guy that runs the Bay Area MEMS (Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems) Journal Club add my resume to his announcement. I've been pounding the pavement, have had companies REFUSE to even accept a copy of my resume.

I go to seminars and lectures with a sign that says "Will do Nanotech/MEMS for Food" or "Will Micromachine for Food". I get a few laughs, and pasted out a few more resumes.

I have managed to get a grand total of three interviews.

I'm hoping for a job offer today.

[The Electrician]

Thank you for correcting your statement. Facts and their implications can be discussed rationally. Emotional overstatements can not.

[johnny7]

syank must be one of the college girly-men from DU.

There have been a lot of them here over the past month.

At least he made up a story... HA!