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What organization do you work for?: Florida Department of Corrections

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What questions would you ask your elected officials and who would you like interviewed?

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Which would you prefer: Layoffs, Furloughs, or Pay Cuts?
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Why so Silo?

Posted on June 1, 2009 at 7:30pm —

What Are State Workers Willing To Give Up For Job Security?

Posted on May 18, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Government Scrambles to Fix an Unfixable Issue.

Posted on March 31, 2009 at 9:36pm —

One Way Web 2.0 Social Media Could Help Federal, State, and Local Government

Posted on February 10, 2009 at 3:04pm —

New College Graduate Desperately Seeking Progressive IT Environment.

Posted on October 3, 2008 at 7:49am — 2 Comments

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Duke Province replied to VerticalGambit's discussion 'Which would you prefer: Layoffs, Furloughs, or Pay Cuts?'

Layoffs.

October 10

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August 9

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July 11

VerticalGambit added 2 events

80th Annual FCCD Training Institute Golf Tournament on August 24, 2009 from 7am to 12pm
FCCD “Dusty Blitch” Annual Pool Tournament on July 24, 2010 all day

July 6

Patrick Greene replied to VerticalGambit's discussion 'Which would you prefer: Layoffs, Furloughs, or Pay Cuts?'

I say furloughs and here is my reasoning... With a layoff you close out empty positions or run cross-the-board staff reductions; the impact of this is that the workload is piled onto the remaining workers. If the workers can't meet the demand it ...

July 1

VerticalGambit added a blog post

Why so Silo?

Last year Heath Ledger’s Joker character from the summer blockbuster movie Batman had a very notable line, “Why so Serious?” In a recent frustrating development that had me pulling my hair out, I want to know, “Why so Silo?” There are many things...

June 1

VerticalGambit commented on VerticalGambit's blog post 'What Are State Workers Willing To Give Up For Job Security?'

What you are seeing in Maine, is happening all over. Most states even ones with strong unions and Democratic majority representation are still feeling the sting of this recession. The sad thing is that the governments response is to cut money from...

May 31

NarsBars commented on VerticalGambit's blog post 'What Are State Workers Willing To Give Up For Job Security?'

I live in Maine. We were never given the choice to accept cuts. The legislature passed the laws, cut our health care, took away longevity pay, froze merit steps, and froze wages. They plan on coming back in January to start cutting more jobs and t...

May 31