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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 371694" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Andy, I think you've got it! With the State, the term "Acting" can mean temporary, or it could become very permanent. With the system the state uses, it can take years to permanently fill a position when someone leaves or retires. Some of those retiring have 30-35 years in and have thousands of hours of unused sick leave that they lose if they don't use it. So nobody retires without 'burning' that sick leave first! We have one man who hasn't been at work for a year and still has enough leave left to be out another two years before he officially retires! But they have to have someone doing that job, so they put someone in a lower position into that job as "Acting" and after three months they get part of the pay of the higher position but not all of it. Anything to save a buck! Then when the person finally officially retires or officially quits, they have to get permission from the State to fill the job, and that could take months too. Or the State might 'freeze' the position and they can't fill it at all. Where I was working, the whole place is being run by "Actings". With this particular guy, I do think he is just temporary. He was in a completely different area, working in the main office in Nashville, and was put here to give him experience in the 'field'. He's second in command. But what he's doing is approved by the one on the top too. They say there's more switch-ups coming in the future. We were just the beginning. I find the whole thing very insulting! What they're really saying is that what we do is so generic and so insignificant that we can teach someone else everything we do in a few hours!</p><p> </p><p>And I did help the girl taking over my job, what little I could do in such a short time. Anything I can do to help bring her up to speed will help out my immediate supervisor, who is new in that position too, and a great guy. He's the first good one we've had in years and he hates this as much as I do, but it was out of his control. This came from HIS boss! Darn! We just finally got everything up and running smoothly, everything just clicking right along and everybody happy ... and then THIS happens! This is going to make it very difficult for him, but even if I stayed, it wouldn't make any difference because I'd be in a different department. And I have a feeling that it's just going to get worse and worse as time goes by, and all because the ones in charge don't have a clue about what's really going on! But I guess that the way of the world now, isn't it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 371694, member: 1883"] Andy, I think you've got it! With the State, the term "Acting" can mean temporary, or it could become very permanent. With the system the state uses, it can take years to permanently fill a position when someone leaves or retires. Some of those retiring have 30-35 years in and have thousands of hours of unused sick leave that they lose if they don't use it. So nobody retires without 'burning' that sick leave first! We have one man who hasn't been at work for a year and still has enough leave left to be out another two years before he officially retires! But they have to have someone doing that job, so they put someone in a lower position into that job as "Acting" and after three months they get part of the pay of the higher position but not all of it. Anything to save a buck! Then when the person finally officially retires or officially quits, they have to get permission from the State to fill the job, and that could take months too. Or the State might 'freeze' the position and they can't fill it at all. Where I was working, the whole place is being run by "Actings". With this particular guy, I do think he is just temporary. He was in a completely different area, working in the main office in Nashville, and was put here to give him experience in the 'field'. He's second in command. But what he's doing is approved by the one on the top too. They say there's more switch-ups coming in the future. We were just the beginning. I find the whole thing very insulting! What they're really saying is that what we do is so generic and so insignificant that we can teach someone else everything we do in a few hours! And I did help the girl taking over my job, what little I could do in such a short time. Anything I can do to help bring her up to speed will help out my immediate supervisor, who is new in that position too, and a great guy. He's the first good one we've had in years and he hates this as much as I do, but it was out of his control. This came from HIS boss! Darn! We just finally got everything up and running smoothly, everything just clicking right along and everybody happy ... and then THIS happens! This is going to make it very difficult for him, but even if I stayed, it wouldn't make any difference because I'd be in a different department. And I have a feeling that it's just going to get worse and worse as time goes by, and all because the ones in charge don't have a clue about what's really going on! But I guess that the way of the world now, isn't it! [/QUOTE]
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