FL: 'Surplusing' process starts for school employees (new word for layoff)

[UpInArms]

http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/052106/tp7ew3.htm?date=052106&story=tp7ew3.htm

Most will find new jobs within the district. Some won't. But they'll all get the proverbial 'pink slip.'

Some Sarasota County School District employees learned recently they've been "surplused."

Officials say it's too early to call them "layoffs," but the reality is after June 30 their jobs no longer exist. The district hopes to find jobs elsewhere for surplused staff.

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It doesn't make sense to employees who have been notified they were surplused, partly because school funding is up. And they're perturbed at what they thought was a promise by the district that no one would lose their job over the budget realignment.

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Now people are "surplus" :eyes:

[MadMaddie]

1. More Repbulican newly defined terms....

When are the people going to get sick of this shit?....especially in Florida

[napi21]

2. Who the heck thought up THAT word?

Did Shrub help them out? That sounds like a word he might have coined!

[Rex]

3. So that means they are additional benefits to the district

which must be slashed and terminated as soon as their viability becomes zero. Surplus sounds like a double-plus-good word. :eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

4. Surplusing?

According to the rules of the English language that would mean "taking on more than is needed".

This is the opposite process.

[SoCalDem]

5. In the UK..they are "made redundant"

euphemisms for bad things are not a good thing :(

[lovuian]

6. they try to take the word and corrupt it thats the REAL

Mortal sin here...

[la la]

7. somewhat off the subject,

but reminds me of the 'new' govmt term - 'catch and release'--same difference- human beings mean nothing.

[oscar111]

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[ConcernedCanuk]

9. "surplused" - fits in with that "collateral damage" sorta thing

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Killing peoples' jobs

Killing people

Got it?

It's the PNACers vocabulary to keep the sheeples mute and ignorant

Makes sense to me!

OH

by the way

a proper spelling would be "surplussed" or "surplussing"

yeah - I ain't surprised they can't even spell it right

ya know

"military intelligence" is an oxymoron of the biggest proportion.

At least when it is used in reference to the USA

(sigh)

[Godhumor]

10. They did the same thing in DC

3 years ago every school laid off 10% of their staff. Many simply went to Virginia and Maryland. The union here did very little to stop it.

[hotforteacher]

11. Here in Minneapolis

it is called "repurposing".

Join me in a collective technicolor yawn! *vomits just a little*

I was "repurposed" three times in a row.