In terms of my neck of the woods, this is not all bad. It is REALLY hard to cut dead weight around here. Gimme five years and lets reassess.
Are you going to be allowed to cut the dead weight, or will you just have to pay everybody less money, effectively pushing your good employees to find better jobs?
The latter. The shitty people can't get another job and don't want to leave anyway. The good people don't like working with shitty people and don't like 20% pay cuts.
Answer your own rough ridin' questions. I'm cutting dead weight and eff anyone who wants to object. Maybe I'll regret it, but you gotta make hay when the sun shines, right?
That's good to hear. Are the people who are going the 20% cut route only doing that because they don't want to lay anybody off? Are some agencies allowed to turn cuts into layoffs while others are not? I don't completely understand how this works, so it's always good to hear from somebody who does.
It's really vague and really rushed, which always leads to good decisions. I'm young, mobile and have highly marketable job skills, so I'm doing what I think is best and am not really worried. That said, my office is more sheltered than the fish guy. I'm using the opportunity to cut more than I have to by cutting what I need to but couldn't before. Do you know how hard it is to get rid of a mediocre govt employee? I'm not wasting an opportunity. When crap settles down in a month or two, we can bring on better talent.
