In which it is proposed that her position *not* be disestablished

[zeborah]

15 flaming weeks after we were told our two branch libraries are to merge, today we were finally shown a staffing change proposal. We now have three weeks to make submissions on it (it was going to be two, but we're asking for another one for various good reasons but also out of spite. 15 flaming weeks!) and then they finalise it.

The proposal is that 3 positions be disestablished outright; and that two groups of people (based on job banding) go into "selection pools", which is like a game of Survivor but without the million dollar prize. Basically everyone gets ranked on various criteria and the people with the highest scores get the jobs and the other people get a severance package. This is mildly preferable to firing everyone and making them all reapply for their old jobs.

Anyway, my position isn't one that goes into a selection pool, so that's nice for me. But they're proposing to just disestablish a half-timer at my same banding, and she has every right to ask why they don't have a selection pool in our banding too, so that could still happen. OTOH I've heard a rumour that she's planning to take the bullet for the rest of us. So...

(Seriously. I know so many women who'd slit their own throat if it'd make someone else feel a bit better.)

So. Nice for me but obviously most of my colleagues still have the axe hanging above them. Insert survivor guilt here. Also we still have to move another bazillion books and convince the chemical engineering department that this merger isn't just an "empire-building" exercise. I shall Have Words with the man who allegedly uttered that phrase (I have to talk with him about some next-year stuff anyway).

Comments

[hairmonger.livejournal.com]

"One of the assistant librarians ended up as the chief cataloguer."

Dear merciful Cataloguing Gods!

Mary Anne in Kentucky (reference, thank you, reference)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Luckily she was very good at it. She was qualified - but she'd only been out of Library school a year! When I left she eventually got my job - as Children's librarian - which was even more of a surprise because she'd never shown any interest in Children or their books before.