---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On Sep 22, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Wimblees@aol.com wrote: > Procuring equipment is the responsibility of the department chair. Well, here, final approvals of purchase requisitions are made by the dean (or department chair in the case of schools with more than one department). But for the most part, all the dean is doing is approving the use of departmental funds - not making the purchase, or making the choice of equipment. But even his hands are tied if the item costs more than $1500 (a figure which hasn't been adjusted for inflation in at least 20 years). It then has to go to bid or you must provide evidence of "sole supplier" before central purchasing will allow it. I would be all for moving our job descriptions to the place where we have more managerial responsibility - i.e., hiring subcontract techs, procuring equipment - or at least being more involved in procurement decisions for anything with piano shaped keys, etc. As long as our job descriptions limit us to tuning and repairing pianos and imply that we answer to someone else who knows more about what we do than we do we will never get the respect we deserve. We are, according to most current job descriptions, just hired hands. Jeff Jeff Tanner, RPT University of South Carolina ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/d8/81/10/29/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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