[DrCaleb]

Yikes! I thought learning to appreciate a man's body as I do a womans' was hard core!. Fran Dresser ups the ante a couple notches.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

It's a bloodbath here. Redford put in place a hiring freeze such that if a position wasn't deemed 'critical' then the position wasn't backfilled when the person left. So a lot of responsibilities fell on the subordinates. But because of the freeze, their job titles weren't upgraded to reflect the new responsibility, and they didn't get any pay bump.

Fast forward to Notley. She continued the freeze, and instead of hiring people, she sough to collapse the top hierarchy so that a Director, instead of being responsible for one group in a Ministry, they are responsible for similar groups in up to 5 ministries. Also with no bump in pay.

Exactly - when I worked with Transportation back in 2014, when someone retired their duties just got divvied out to other people and staff was told to deal with it. That's why so many projects and programs take much longer to implement than they used to - because one person does the work of two or three people and there is only so much time in the day (and OT is verboten). Back then, Transportation was legislated to have about 850 positions, but was running on just over 700.

I can't even imagine what it will look like after this UCP term.

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

To back fill needed resources, contractor were brought in to fill in the critical spots. Now the UCP has given the mandate that no contracts are to be renewed for the forseeable future. The chaos of losing all that knowledge along with the people who actually keep the lights on will be beautiful. It is already beautiful, as people who manage things like Unclaimed Property or the app companies use to submit taxes online are gone. So are the people who run the Student Finance website, at the perfect time of the year - when Students need it most!

My company has a contract till 2022, but I might get out ahead of the game and ask for a transfer to Victoria to take over the new contract we have there. Maybe I can sell my hovel and move there before winter.

And once again, we get the government we deserve!

The government is already cutting back on IT contractors, so I'd suggest getting out while you can:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.5260547

[DrCaleb]

bootlegga bootlegga:

The government is already cutting back on IT contractors, so I'd suggest getting out while you can:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.5260547

$1:

The first big impact Albertans noticed was to scholarship delivery, the contractors said.

At the beginning of August, parents and students noticed work was underway on a technology upgrade on the website, which would delay access to scholarship applications for months.

The government worked to reopen its most popular scholarship, the Rutherford, but dozens of others remain on hold.

A contractor with knowledge of that project said approximately 30 per cent of the team behind the scholarship upgrade didn't have their contracts renewed over the past few months.

I know all too well. And I mentioned earlier (in a different thread) that the reason they give for the Student Finance website being down was bullshit. It's being re-worked, that is true. But functionality remains, just no one is there to administer it. So they shut that part off.

But I can request transfers to most places in the US, Canada, Europe and parts of Scandinavia and Asia. Our company is always growing, even if the Alberta market is shrinking.