Babson To Get Dirty on July 1
Posted on June 25, 2007 by Crapmaster
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Rumor has it that the burden on facilities has gone too far and they will be going on strike come July 1. After constructing a dorm yet decreasing facilities staff (leaving students to clean their own dorms,) Babson has gone as far as leaving them without a contract for next year.
Surprise? Not really.
Let’s hear your opinions in the comments. How do you feel Babson treats the facilities staff?
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Wow. I’m not at all surprised. Babson treats its facilities staff like they’re all lepers. It’s pathetic.
Sadly, the facilities people are the only ones with level heads around campus. If you ever talk to them, you will notice they are real people that have a working concept of the “real world” outside of the Babson trust-fund bubble. And despite what the rich pricks and pampered, over-paid, utterly useless administrators think, the facilities people are some of the best we have on this campus, bar none.
I’m glad they’re going on strike. Maybe Babson will finally wake up. The school would not exist without the facilities staff, and the admins are apparently going to learn that the hard way. How can the school keep cutting costs the way they are? Eventually they will have 1 guy doing all the landscaping, 1 guy serving food in Trim, and 1 guy doing maintenance work…and they’ll decide to not renew the Trim guy’s contract because students can make their own damn food, right? Plus, they could never cut the landscaping guy’s job because then people outside Babson would see how shitty the place is, and we wouldn’t want that.
Why don’t they try cutting jobs out of the administration? There are easily 40 jobs in OCL, career services, various useless secretarial workers, class deans, etc. that can all be cut right out today. At probably an average of $40k salary per worker, you’re looking at a $1.6 million savings. Hmmm…seems like a much more useful way of getting $1.6 million dollars, which could be used to make a real pub or refurbish some of the disgusting dorms like Putney or Pietz. Maybe our next president should be an orangutan because I think a primate would figure these kinds of things out before the current mongoloids we have.
Hey, just exactly what is the proticol for a strike. Aren’t they supposed to picket the entrances? and aren’t any other union employees supposed ot not cross that line?
Of course this poses a problem for the average Babson Employee who is not union (but needs to be to get protection from crap managers) who want to support the strike, but can’t afford to piss off management as they know it will be used against them at some future point.
Of course what most folks don;t know is the average raise Babson employees have gotten for the past few years is about 2%. Except for the “important faculty” who get more becasue their subject field is too important ( i.e not anyone in the humanities) , and as the place does suck for most people they’d probably lose some of those faculty to schools where everyone (including students) are treated with respect.
Yes, I know- it is lower than the rate of inflation, which means the average Babson employee is paid less and less each year. Unless they either suck up to someone important, or have a manager that will fight to try and max out their raise. And let’s face it, who wants to argue with the big bosses about stuff like money for employees…. It might impact their own bottom line.
I think, that since the administartion has casued the financial issues, anyone making over a certain amount say 100K, or 150K or whatever, should get no raise, and that money added tot he lowest paid employees at Babson to which an extra $20 a month will actually mean something.
Oh Krap, by going to Babson I seem to have become a communist instead of the capital;ist I had planned on being.
thanks for those comments Picket non-crosser. i didn’t know that the administration treated the staff that badly (though, it doesn’t surprise me – at all.) it reminds me of this comment made by ‘roger babson’:
“Ask any honest staff member and they will tell you Babson is very class conscious. Lower employees dare not talk to (nor raise their gaze to meet the eyes) of the higher level staff. Most “important” staff and faculty will not lower themselves to talk to a lesser employee- they have a secretary do it (al la Devil wears Prada). Which is why staff morale is at an all time low (according to people that have been here for over 15 years).”
it’s no surprise (sadly) that the people that help keep this college running on a day to day basis are treated like crap. it’s just another reason why i feel like babson has truly crossed the line from a respectable institution of higher education into something that only masquerades as one. how truly sad and disappointing.
granted, harvard also faces the same problems. but when this happened at harvard – kids went on a hunger strike.
at babson? apathetic silence.
is there something that the students can do to show their support of the staff? granted, most of the people here in their audis and bmws don’t give half a damn, but there are some of us with a socially conscious mindset. how can we help?