[CAUT] Position Announcement, SIU, Carbondale, IL

[Ron Poire]

Hi Avery,
The School of Music had been running in the red for several years.
It finally came to a point, where the dean said that the School of Music would have to balance its budget.
They eliminated a total of four positions, mine included.  We had a property manager, who had a degree in stringed instrument repair.  His job also included tracking instrument inventory.  A receptionist and someone else is also gone.
Now, all of the instrument repair and piano repair work is contracted out.  At least, I get in on some of that.

Ron


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Avery Todd 
  To: College and University Technicians 
  Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 4:53 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Position Announcement, SIU, Carbondale, IL


  Ron, 

  I can't help but ask. How were they able to "lay you off" after that long there? I'd have to have gotten caught/arrested for doing drugs or something worse for them to lay me off after even 6 months on the job! 

  Just wondering. 

  Avery Todd

  On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Ron Poire <rpoire at comcast.net> wrote:

    Hey Richard, Right on.

    Some of us should follow Richard's example and apply for the job, then turn it down, unless they want to anty up.

    With myself having been laid off at the University of Minnesota, I would use that job as a springboard to something else.
    One catch though, I am 59 years old, and wonder how much I have left in me.
    It's a great job for some young guy to take, then walk away when you'be completed all or most of your experiments on the pianos.

    Use the university's pianos as a laboratory for experiment, so you can learn what works, and what doesn't.

    regards,

    Ron Poire

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