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Trudie Walters :tinoflag:
@Trudie Walters :tinoflag:

Eat, pray, love, laugh, read, cycle, garden, reno, sleep, repeat. Staff of a cat called Rabbit. Envious wife of a semi-retired person. Lover of Ōtepoti/Dunedin currently living in Waitaha/Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. She/her.
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So I opted for voluntary redundancy in the current round of staff cuts at Lincoln Uni - final day of work will be next Thursday 11 June. Then we are escaping for two nights to mark the occasion and consider our new reality. Our house will be up for sale next week as we want to move back to Ōtepoti. If anyone has any remote short term research assistant work (or similar), no matter how small, I’d be very grateful! I am a social scientist/academic with over a decade of experience with qualitative methods. Also, if anyone hears of a job going in Ōtepoti that would be most excellent!! I am open to anything kind of university/polytech and/or research related… just gonna put it out there… Thanks #FediFriends! #GetFediHired #AcademicJobs #SocSci #Research (edited to add more hashtags)
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Jon Sullivan · 3w
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Jon Sullivan · 3w
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Jon Sullivan · 13w
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Jon Sullivan · 13w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqd4wywmkfcegmw55el4g66ha4rrffxrp4rrs8uke38rzqca9gft2qfx6g3g I wonder if instead there's some ulterior motive here. Perhaps senior management wants...
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@nprofile1q... yes I think you’re right Jon - who is ‘approved’ to leave in this round of redundancies will be very telling for those who remain. And on a side note, is it legal for them to make up a new term for what does actually amount to voluntary redundancy? A rose by any other name… Like you, I don’t like it either way.
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Trudie Walters :tinoflag: · 13w
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Jon Sullivan · 13w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqd4wywmkfcegmw55el4g66ha4rrffxrp4rrs8uke38rzqca9gft2qfx6g3g Hear hear. Losing 5% of our staff will definitely have consequences. Surely there's a ...
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@nprofile1q... I think SLT is just too incompetent and can’t identify where in the system the ‘unnecessary’ expenditure is. As a result, they default to staff costs (again, without identifying areas where duplication exists or efficiencies achieved). Then, because they are spineless, they put the onus on staff to leave ‘voluntarily’. The end result will be experienced staff going, from areas they are needed in. Will they allow any profs with research funding in ag disciplines to leave? Unlikely. Faculties like mine will be seen as superfluous to requirements so they will use any who ‘choose’ to leave to push their narrative and it will be the thin end of the wedge, enabling them to justify course cuts and dept closures…
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Jon Sullivan · 13w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqd4wywmkfcegmw55el4g66ha4rrffxrp4rrs8uke38rzqca9gft2qfx6g3g I wonder if instead there's some ulterior motive here. Perhaps senior management wants to re-focus the university as well as save money, which makes voluntary redundancies a way to achie...