[Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI, and AlliedBarton

[Tom Hansen]

In my opinion, there are two primary reasons why businesses hire internally:

1)  Employee's familiarization with corporate infrastructure/culture.

2)  Management's familiarization with employee's productivity.

Such an employee can move internally from one job to the next absent any
necessity of a "learning curve".

I feel safe in assuming that corporations prefer the necessity of a
learning curve to be at the lowest level possible.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

On Fri, April 1, 2011 12:52 pm, Ron Force wrote:
> ? Inside hires don't really save money. The person moving up gets the
> salary of
> the new position, and then their department has to hire a replacement.
>
>  Ron Force
> Moscow Idaho USA
>
>
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> ________________________________
> From: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
> To: Saundra Lund <v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm>; vision2020 at moscow.com; lfalen
> <lfalen at turbonet.com>
> Sent: Fri, April 1, 2011 12:09:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES  :-(  Plumber's Butt, the UI, and
> AlliedBarton
>
>
> Roger,
>
> If there is a way to waste more money, UI will find it even if they have
> to hire
> an administrator to contract a firm to outsource a private company to
> select
> a board to appoint an exploratory committee to discover it.
>
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
> --- On Fri, 4/1/11, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
>
>
>>From: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
>>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES :-( Plumber's Butt, the UI, and
>>AlliedBarton
>>To: "Saundra Lund" <v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm>, vision2020 at moscow.com
>>Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 11:24 AM
>>
>>
>>The UI is real good at wasting money. They used hired a new Dean of the
>> Graduate
>>School from outside. the interim Dean was just fine.
>>Roger
>>-----Original message-----
>>From: "Saundra Lund" v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm
>>Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:50:52 -0700
>>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>>Subject: [Vision2020] Oh, My EYES  :-(  Plumber's Butt, the UI,and
>> AlliedBarton
>>
>>> Perhaps someone at the UI should PLEASE let whoever is hiring those
>>> fine
>>> hard-working AlliedBarton security professionals (!) know that Moscow
>>> actually has an ordinance prohibiting plumber's butt.  Ordinance
>>> 2002-13.
>>>
>>> In all fairness, I didn't actually see the dude's  "cleft of the
>>> buttocks" on
>>> the weekend, for which I'll be eternally grateful.  But, it was
>>> horrifyingly
>>> close & *very* unprofessional.  And it ***definitely*** wasn't a
>>> positive
>>> reflection on the UI.
>>>
>>> OTOH, I've seen MPD officers on campus many times over the years, and
>>> they
>>> always looked professional & behaved professionally as well, which
>>> apparently isn't always the case with the AB employees.
>>>
>>> I've heard through the grapevine that the brilliant <sarcasm> decision
>>> to
>>> hire AB to save money is actually costing more than anticipated.  I
>>> can't
>>> say as I'm surprised because that often seems to be the case at the UI:
>>> things that are supposed to save money wind up costing more, especially
>>> when
>>> it comes to contracts with the private sector.  In the past, I found it
>>> very
>>> easy to deal with the UI with respect to public  records requests, but
>>> that's
>>> unfortunately not been the case since Kent Nelson was hired as General
>>> Counsel.  Other than finding creative ways to thwart public records
>>> requests, I'm not exactly sure what it is he does since the UI
>>> contracts out
>>> so much of its legal work, but making access to public records
>>> difficult if
>>> not impossible certainly has the bonus of making sure we-the-taxpayers
>>> remain ignorant about whether all these cost-savings measures are
>>> actually
>>> saving money or losing it.
>>>
>>> So much for the UI's pledge for transparency & accountability following
>>> the
>>> deplorable history of serious financial mismanagement.  Seriously,
>>> though,
>>> Pollyanna me thought that "pledge" was going to last longer than a New
>>> York
>>> minute.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Saundra Lund
>>> Moscow, ID
>>>
>>> The only thing necessary for the triumph of  evil is for good people to
>>> do
>>> nothing.
>>> ~ Edmund Burke
>>>
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