My job along with many others around the nation has been affected by budget cuts. I am so thankful to still have a job, but it is hard to continually have more and more things taken away. The most recent being a work car. I didn't have one just for myself, but I did generally have one available for my nice long drives around the state. (Basically workers realized that if they used their own cars and got reimbursed they would end up with a nice fat check (traveling to St George and back at 52 cents a gallon gets you a $300 reimbursement.... nice huh?! - and I only did this once, don't judge me!) All those fat checks amounted to over 6 million dollars last year(and I know this sounds bad, but seriously, we get paid crap so we might as well use the resources we can - again, don't judge me!))
Now to get a car, there is planning involved, time constraints, rental cars to obtain, and paperwork - all things I like to avoid.
So my maintenance friends and I joked the other day that the next step will be to take away all the cars and provide bikes. And since my co-worker had to go to Spanish Fork we had some good laughs over her riding a bike all that way. Oh, and since they're too cheap to give us cars, she would have to sleep in a tent on the side of the road. I can't wait for the legislative session to be over and see what further cuts will be made....
I still think if the administration allowed the regular workers to "suggest" changes the state may end up saving thousands (if not millions) of dollars.
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