Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Three APS Employees have been vanished

"Vanished" as in an illusion; magic, smoke and mirrors, link,
not that they have actually vanished in a physical sense.

APS has a Communications Department. It used to have eight
staff members, now it has five, link.

The employees have been vanished.
Though they likely still occupy the
same seats at the same desks in
the same offices, and one of them
recently accompanied the Executive
Director of Communications Monica
Armenta when she went to accept
adoration at the Albuquerque Press
Women's luncheon, link, they are
no longer listed as employees of
Armenta's Department.

They were vanished to make Armenta's Department look smaller
when Governor Susana Martinez points to administrative bloat
in the APS.

Never mind that with three fewer people under her, Armenta's
salary, nearly four times as much as a teacher makes, and more
than eight times as much as educational assistants make,
becomes that much less justifiable.

They will probably move the vanished employees in and out of
their virtual seats and offices, according to Armenta's alternating
need to look powerful and important with a large staff, or
to look relatively inexpensive with nearly 40% fewer staff.

This is all quite dishonest of course. Under normal circumstances
the legacy press would investigate and report upon the deception.

Your APS website challenge;

Using nothing but the award winning website, link,
figure out where the folks who run the website, work.
(We know they still work in Armenta's Office Suite;
we just don't know under whose budget.)


Bonus points for finding out who they are and
their job descriptions.



photo Mark Bralley

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