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I work for one of the worlds largest IT Outsourcing shops... You guys don't know how good you have it! I wish I had it so good, I wouldn't know what to do with myself.. In my line of work, offshore doesn't mean, the place you take your boat!



I got a 2.5% Cost Of Living Decrease last week via email.... Nice huh? Screw it, I am buying a new boat....

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Brett DiMichele

We took a 5% decrease in our school district do to cutting days off the year. Looks like we are going to lose at least another 5% before the year is out and thats the good news. We have 200 teachers in our district and being new means I am one of the first to go depending on how deep next years cuts go. Praying for a job at this point.

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Todd
1988 Four Winns Horizon 200
AKA "Summer School"

Its the thought that counts....

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Current Boat:
2004 Sea Ray 320 Sundancer "Nauti Luvin'"

Previous Boats:
1999 298 Vista "Seas The Day"
2008 H200SS "Nauti Luv"
2006 Tahoe Q4

Our district has to cut $2.2 million this year, and they're expecting to have to cut 10 TIMES that amount next year. Only partially due to the current economy, however. I'm glad my kids are on the downhill side of their pre-college education. Of course if they all played football I wouldn't be worried.

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

We had some serious mis-management and were in trouble before the economy tanked. We have a $25 million budget and had to cut 2 million from it. Next year is going to be ugly. Time to trim the fat in schools and keep the highly motivated and productive teachers. We tend to have a few to many hang on at the end that should have retired already.

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Todd
1988 Four Winns Horizon 200
AKA "Summer School"

I think that's one of the big problems with education nationwide. That, and teachers who only got into the field so they could have summers off. Not that that wouldn't be a nice benefit! But more than anything, it's administrators who make the same dumb decisions as administrators in other fields. Funny, when academic and music programs are cut, you almost never hear of layoffs or even cutbacks in expenditures at the district administration offices. I once asked a teacher during parent-teacher conferences why she didn't have any maps in her classroom. She replied that her "allowance" wasn't enough to buy them and that as a 1st-year teacher her salary wasn't high enough for her to buy them herself (which she would have done otherwise - how crazy is that!?). Yet, that very afternoon they had approved the purchase of 24 new laptops for use by district administration personnel. This in a district with over 27K students and a $220 million budget. But no maps unless the teachers buy them on their own.

Sorry for the hijack, this is a hot button for me. I believe administrative negligence and waste in public education is one of the biggest dirty secrets in the U.S. And if you say anything about it, then "...you must not be in favor of the children."

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Mike
2005 Four Winns 230/240
VP 5.7GXi/DP
1998 F-150 XLT
Boat Pic

Like Brett, I too work in the IT Services business for a large global provider. They are pushing all sales people to a lower "base" higher commission plan. Go figure...

Optimus

You are correct. The issue is a lack of leadership and an unwillingness to make the hard decisions. At least as I see it in our district. Our school board is looking to clean house at the administration level though so that should be interesting. I am currently working on my masters in education leadership and administrator license. I hope to make change from the inside. Just like any job there are a lot of great people, but the morons seem to pull everyone down. In the private sector you can get rid of the moron. In the schools the unions step in.

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Todd
1988 Four Winns Horizon 200
AKA "Summer School"