If only we knew the truth.
If you are a senior APS administrator, your chair rolls around an office with an unobstructed view of Mount Taylor, or the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Perhaps you have been stuck with the relatively mundane view of the Sandias. If your seat is at the bottom of the food chain, at the top of the building; you can see Los Lunas and Belen; on a clear day, maybe Socorro.
If you settle down in your chair just a little, the window sill will block from your view; 123 schools, 10,000 employees, 99,000 students, and all of the bothersome bitching about how hard their lives are.
My bet, is that you would be rolling around on brand new wheels.
A whole bunch of really nice, nearly new executive desk chairs just showed up in the Martin/DeLayo "community" room. They appear to be cast offs; to be squabbled over by the less privileged occupants of the Uptown Complex. By my estimation; they probably cost two or three hundred dollars a piece; (and were probably purchased from some APS vendor who chipped in a few hundred or a few thousand dollars to the APS Foundation, and ultimately the Inn of the Mountain Gods). (link)
Did APS stakeholders just pay for a whole bunch of even more expensive executive chairs for the overworked asses in senior administration?
At least they were kind enough to let the great unwashed roll around in their cast offs.
As always, I will bow to (and report honestly upon)
any controverting fact.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
APS' Uptown Administrative Complex
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2 comments:
I can not even get the books I ordered last year. The total was $134.00. The excuse this year? We're saving up to buy a cop. Next we'll save up to buy him a gun, and then bullets. There is such a disconnect between what they say at the top and what they do, and, as usual, no one cares. It has been going on for the last 27 years that I've been here.
I worked at 725 University for about fifteen years. I got some great handmedown furniture for my office at Risk Management when Marsha Selzter, fellow safety specialist, spotted the booty, arrr! We pounced upon the metal desks, HUGE and sturdy, and wrangled them to our portable building. We were HAPPY. Marsha was hailed as a Goddess for months. Just becasue someone else was sick of these old desks. We moved them to Stronghurst when APS moved Risk to Stronghurst; DAMN nice desks.
Why did APS spend money on new desks that day? We had desks already, which we sent to salvage for sale or furhter re-distribution, but got the handmedown desks for our offices from computer services.
I loved that desk, but I had a (less cool) desk before that day. I gota great desk out of the deal, but did computer services really need new desks or did they just have money allocated for "furniture" and were gonna lose it back to the general fund if they did not spend it?
Mnagers always want to spend to the last penny so they are not asked to give up funds in lean years. They really don't need new desks and chairs, or whole office buildings and vehicles, as often as they would have the relpacement schedule say, BECAUSE of this effect.
When compared to what some schools that house actual students need, the need for a new chair for some fat overpaid ass is less than nil. Buy the classroom EA and teacher new chairs, or better yet, get the kids some good desks with a surface that is not gonna cause them chronic ass pain. Would some light cushioning, like office chairs be too much to ask for kid to sit on all day when he or she is trying to learn?
J. Lopez
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