Brace yourself, layoffs will start before end of October.
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Can someone help? I wanted to send Thanksgiving greetings to Val Senatore, but my email to her bounced. Is there someone who might know how to find her? Did she change departments?
Regardless of who owns us...good luck to all of us this coming session!
acwn ...I've always wondered where VS gets her marching orders from?
acwn--thank you for the heads-up...might have been fooled otherwise. Still trying to get out of there asap in any case
Exclude VS from the hazardous to your health list? No. She makes the list big time, though I do hear through the grapevine that she is currently in sweet mode. But her true nature is to carry out her orders no. matter. what.
Historically, October hasn’t been a big month for DVU faculty sh*tcanning. Much seems to happen leading up to the close of the Fiscal Year (June 31) though one time it was delayed into September because of an accreditation issue. Other suspect times include Week 6 of whatever 8-Week session you’re in, and right after they give an Employee Satisfaction Survey. They should offer yearly contracts so that employees can do their jobs more effectively without constant fear and anxiety getting in the way
@7rpp, not VS. One step up, though, and you hit paydirt
Speaking of bullying tactics...how about that CBC201 training they forced us to do? The threatening emails to those who did not start it early enough sounded like bullying to me. I wasted two whole weekends on that c-ap and for what purpose? So I could get future adjunct teaching contracts at this miserable place. That does not seem like a fair payoff for the time and effort wasted on the 30-something assignments we had to turn in. To a visiting prof like me, it was a lot of work for no extra compensation.
I teach at two other, much better colleges. One gives training in short workshops paced steadily throughout the year. The other gives a short list of very easy micro-courses to do at our own pace, but with a deadline that is several months away. Only DeVry forces us to do this much work under such a tight deadline and then hassles us about it. Different on purpose I guess. Good example of what the culture has become.
@VFBTRmF-7gai So...I'm assuming the list includes Tim Zorek, Lenore Goldberg, and Val Senatore?
the "greedy, morally bankrupt managers" were hatchet wo/men, carrying out their orders with no regard for those who found ourselves in their cross hairs. Bullying tactics, fear, and ultimately, mere expediency ruled who kept and who lost a job. Some left after the boot, some before. But the boot on the neck was always felt. In the end, I expect that managers were desperate to keep their jobs to the end of the line and eff the rest of us.
and just who are these greedy, morally bankrupt managers we're talking about. After all, if I'm going to blame someone for my ruin, I'd like to know who I'm talking about...
DeVry will manipulate the layoffs during the remainder of 2018 and all through 2019 such that fewer than 50 people or less than 1/3 of the remaining employees will be let go at any one time, so the WARN Act requirements will not be triggered. Remember, the managers are morally bankrupt and will do everything they can to line their own pockets while treating employees as pieces of dirt to be brushed off at will.
To the latest poster: Well said! Thank you for this follow-on response invoking some reason and adding value to this discussion.
Poster and Class: Everyone should read the latest poster’s comment carefully as it explains the likely process we face. As DoE continues to delay final approval of the “transfer” (classic government behavior lacking any sense of urgency), you are being given the gift of some additional time to get your house in order and prepare for the eventual purge that will serve to dress up the DVU cash flow statement. Also, note how the latest posting further explained that, following the transfer, you can expect several months of additional lag time prior to the big layoff, specifically owing to WARN requirements. Can anyone follow up with a subsequent post explaining any of the details of WARN to our class? We still have a couple of days before this discussion closes on Sunday night.
Unlikely. Without evidence or reasoning, this just seems like trolling. In fact, as a trend, threads on this board that start with "brace yourselves" seem to be trolling.
Layoffs will continue quietly in the background, subtle, intermittent, invisible, like carbon monoxide. They will commence en masse 6 months after the transfer to Dear Old Brad, when WARN expires.
Figure it out, people.
Source?
Heard that before...but still curious...staff? faculty? management?