The Florida Retirement System doesn't seem all that bad. I think my FRS check plus Social Security plus personal investments should get me by okay when retirement comes.
But it'll be another 20 years before I qualify! :) From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 3:48 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Reduction in hours, forced to use PTO I agree with John. I had to take 3 days at Christmas because the University I work at decided to close for the best part of 2 weeks. Thank God that the rest of the days were covered by holidays. I am most definitely looking forward to retirement in less than 18 months. Then I just need to find another job and start earning my second retirement. I could never live on my retirement the state will give me. Jon On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:23 PM, John Hornbuckle <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: One of the reasons I've been willing to live with the lower salary one makes in the public sector is that in return, one has great job stability. Normally. These days, that has been turned on its head; public sector jobs are providing neither stability nor good pay. I'm just thankful that my job is such that literally no one else in our organization can do it, and the things I do absolutely *must* be done. Getting rid of me wouldn't save any money, unless they replaced me with someone less expensive. And considering how modest my salary is, that's not very likely even in the current economic climate. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us<http://www.taylor.k12.fl.us/> From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 3:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Reduction in hours, forced to use PTO I work for the state of California, and just narrowly dodged layoffs. My union has agreed to a 4.62% paycut (one day salary), from now through June 2010. I still fear that Ahnold will come back and say it's not enough, and layoffs are still needed, but I do have some protection from that now. Also in the Tentative Agreement with the union is that our members cannot be laid off unless the agency we work for is eliminated, or the facilities we work at are closed. Even then, because of the agreement, they will give me another job... within 10% of my current salary, and within 50 miles of my home. So, theoretically, I could end up taking another 10% cut and increasing my drive to work from 6.5 miles to 50... Joy, oh Joy...hanging on by my fingertips. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
