The Kern Community College District is only going to lay off five people. That is five people too many and that is ludicrous. These people need their jobs like the rest of us.
Classified people did not cause the financial problem, the district did. Therefore, the district should bear the brunt of the layoffs.
Why are there no administrators being asked to leave or cut back their hours? Why are not assistant chancellors being asked to take a pay cut or leave?
Why are there no presidents (of the three colleges) or deans being asked to take pay cuts? How about department and/or division chairs taking pay cuts? How about anybody who is not classified or faculty?
Why is it that every time there is a reorganization the low person on the totem pole loses their job or gets hours cut back, however, the people in the penthouse don’t lose a thing, not even sleep.
I noticed in the article by Rachel Cribbs that key people who could answer these questions did not return phone calls.
Why should they, they aren’t losing their jobs.
Merry Christmas to Cerro Coso, you no longer have a job.
Answers anybody?
Elizabeth Moore
Classified staffer