Delawder,
I remember back in a former life....being a supervisor in a factory. All my floor personnel was union....and I wasn't of course. While I could go on and on about what I know of that experience, I'll just say that I was less than happy several times when I would go to do some labor because a person was sick. The politics of that whole situation superimposed onto the politics already manifested for a Director who DOESN'T have to deal with union subordinates, screams Rolaids. Does the benefit package have some sort of comprehensive care/life insurance for stress related illnesses, mental or physical, that is sure to take the Director down? I guess if that budget is all the district can do for their technology, the new courageous soul taking on that load of a position should be allowed to enlist the most diligent and creative grant writer that would find some tech funds for that budget to upgrade that heaping pile of a collision domain. While I believe that throwing money at something doesn't necessarily always fix it....$300,000 a year for a tech budget of a school that size with the problems it has.............- WOW! Isn't that like an early/mid 90's budget? On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Mike Oliveri < mike.oliv...@student.rb60.com> wrote: > I'm wondering if they're talking to Cat. State Farm gives out old equipment > in Bloomington, so I'm wondering if Cat does the same. They've got their big > offices downtown and facilities all over the area. > > Mike > > > > On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Richard Kasson wrote: > > > Let me get this straight. The techs are all union so the tech director > > can't touch the equipment? That's the scariest part. Does that budget > > figure include the salaries or are salaries separate. If salaries are > > separate, you can get creative and make it work. I manage on $25,000 a > year > > or less depending on what my REAP grant is and whether Congress continues > to > > fund it. You just have to find and use available resources that provide > > things for free. There is absolutely no reason that those techs > shouldn't > > be visiting Rock Island arsenal on a regular basis to take advantage of > what > > the Army is rotating out of service. There's some pretty nice two and > > three-year-old equipment available. All it takes is someone to fill out > the > > paperwork and watch the website. > > > > That login thing is a bit worrisome. I had 9 year old Celeron 600s with > 64 > > MB RAM that didn't take 20 minutes to login, even when we were a Novell > > Network. Something definitely ain't correct there. > > > > It does sound like a challenge and it would be a blast to give it a shot > - > > if I lived closer. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org > > [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Mike Oliveri > > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 7:08 PM > > To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Job Opening - Dir of Tech > > > > That's what I'm thinking. > > > > Mike > > > > > > On Oct 20, 2010, at 6:28 PM, Heath Henderson wrote: > > > >> Yes, failure, but from the creative standpoint, it sure would be fun to > > try. From the technical side (outside of the tech plan etc) it sure would > be > > challenging to try and get that system fixed back up right. Sounds like > the > > infrastructure is there though. > >> > >> -Heath Henderson > >> > >> On Oct 20, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Jason Livezey <jlive...@nlsd122.org> > wrote: > >> > >>> It is going to be really hard for a Director if he or she can't touch > > anything. I have to manage things on a daily basis just so I can make an > > educated decision about what I need and who is going to manage it. > > Obviously something is seriously wrong with their setup if they have > login > > times of 20+ minutes. That basically means those machines are useless... > >>> > >>> You would have to go backwards before you could go forward. With that > > current budget you could only spend about $7500K a building if you > divided > > equally. With a district that big a budget like that for tech is just > bad. > >>> > >>> Talk about setting up for failure... > >>> > >>> JL > >>> > >>> On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Delawder, Scott wrote: > >>> > >>>> Union District means no Hands on for the Director > >>> > >>> Jason Livezey > >>> Director of Technology > >>> New Lenox School District #122 > >>> Cell: 815.693.9338 > >>> > >>> ACMT Certified > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >
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