head above water

 I had a meeting of the Whispers just now… and not much was really explained.

But once again, I’m going to trust that I can come up for air in this terrible drama that is surrounding my job right now. I really think that all the positive vibes and prayers and love that is coming my way is having a huge impact on everything.

So for now… it’s looking like I’m safe. A list of the projected lay offs was released and throughout the entire city, my position isn’t targeted ONCE. Now that doesn’t mean someone didn’t promote out of my position and can come back and bump me, but that is probably not likely as I’m really at the top of my class and most people either stay in this spot or leave the class entirely and move up in others, so I’m just HOPING that allows me a bit of a buffer.

Anyway, with that said, the list that they approved isn’t even finalized yet because the stupid City Council has to meet again and agree that is what they are going to do. There are some other options, like shifting a huge chunk of our work force over to DWP to do some work which would mean we wouldn’t have to lay off as many people, but we’ll see.

It’s really dramatic.

They want to eliminate and ENTIRE SECTION. Just hack it off and contract it out.

it’s scary as hell and it makes me really sad because that’s a lot of people losing their jobs… 100 of them, just GONE. thwack.

It’s terrible.

I’m hoping the alternative pans out.

Anyway, regardless, since I am fairly certain I’m safe in THIS wave of lay offs, I should be safe until June. After that, the shit really hits the fan. My boss estimates that at that time, they are going to see that there needs to be 4,000 more lay offs.

Yeah, that’s a huge chunk of people just booted out on their asses.

And nothing can really be done about it except for to just eat it.

I am not sure I’ll be safe if that happens.

What I’m hoping is that by June I’ll have 9.5 years of service.

That should count for something.

And I’m hoping to just get bumped ONCE and still retain some sort of job, even if there is a huge cut in pay.

And maybe by that time, Baboo’s parents will have something else lined up and they’ll just want to move out of the entire house and we can just take it over…

Ya know, something has to work out in the end.

We talked last night about the whole move and it sucked because I could see that he just wants me to go along with it, but … honestly… it’s a last resort.

So we’ll see.

I wouldn’t say I’m feeling comfortable.

If anything, I’m juat feeling sad.

It’s a really grim place to be right now.

I’m gonna go do my work.

My boss told us we need to be really important right now. We have to make ourselves invaluable.

So that’s what I’m going to do.

Sorry if my notes are a bit late or short.

I’m trying to focus… gotta keep my head above water.