Weekly Outrage: Coast Janitors to be Laid Off - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Apr 26, 2005

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Weekly Outrage: Coast Janitors to be Laid Off

Date: Apr 26, 2005

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Originally posted by: A tribute to our co- workers
"I recall the days when Staff Service Awards were presented at USM convocations. USM non- faculty personnel would proudly amble down the aisles to receive their 5, 10, 15, and 20 year service pins or other tangible signs of appreciation. They felt as if they were "part of the university." And indeed they were. A very meaningful part. They didn't work for Barnes and Noble, or Aramark, or Ajex Janitorial Service. They worked for USM. They were proud of USM and we too took pride as they received those awards. We clapped and cheered. Just as enthusiastically as when the Faculty Service Awards were presented. They were very much like "family." They imparted this sense of being a part of the USM family into the community-at-large. A loyal group. The move toward "outsourcing" those and other services is going to be a tremendous loss to USM. Not in terms of money, perhaps, but in terms spirit. Money can't buy the kind of loyalty displayed by our non- faculty co- workers. "

Unfortunately, those days at USM may be gone forever.

Date: Apr 26, 2005

I'd like to know who is likely to get the contract if secretarial services are farmed out. I'd like to keep the one I have now.

Date: Apr 26, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: A tribute to our co- workers
"I recall the days when Staff Service Awards were presented at USM convocations. USM non- faculty personnel would proudly amble down the aisles to receive their 5, 10, 15, and 20 year service pins or other tangible signs of appreciation. They felt as if they were "part of the university."

Presenting staff (or faculty, ftm) awards in the middle of golden eagle revelry or whatever the heck it was called last fall when they quizzed the administrators about football trivia just doesn't conjure up the same sense of university.