I should clarify......I wasn't mad because I HAD to do the work. It was because I had several grievances filed against me because I WANTED to do the work...and did.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:46 AM, T Suter <suterscomput...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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