Good for The Famuan staffers who went on strike this week.They weren't staging a protest about war or global warming; they weren't trying to get the attention of the mighty on behalf of a cause such as mistreatment in boot camps. The newspaper staffers had simply had it because their university hadn't paid them the roughly $196 most of the students earn every two weeks. It may not be much for working 30 hours a week, but it's important to a student's budget.
The students were also dramatically pointing attention to the fact that more than two-thirds of Florida A&M University's more than 400 employees received their paychecks just last Friday after waiting since the semester began on Jan. 8 to be paid.
Continue reading: FAMUAN staffers drive point home
Castell, pay them folks!
ReplyDeleteCastell claims she doesn't know why the people haven't gotten their money, but she's the one who fired all the people who knew how to get things done and hired folks who in didn't know how to get things done. Then, she wants to be quoted as saying that she simply doesn't know how this happened, that it isn't a computer glitch. Well, duh...that only leaves one other cause: a people glitch. And the glitched people are ones that she hired. So she can't continue to claim that she doesn't know Jack, because not only doesn't she know Jack, she knows Glitch as well.
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ReplyDeleteCastell knows full well why these folks ain't been paid. It's her phony surplus!
ReplyDeleteThat damn $10.4M deficit is a mugg!
ReplyDeleteIf the problem isn't a computer glitch, then this is a little scary. How can you have no idea why people aren't getting paid. That just doesn't make sense. This situation could signal bigger financial problems at the university than we know about. And according to the article this isn't the first time that this has happened. I think that the administration needs to let everyone know what is really going on at our beloved FAM.
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ReplyDeleteCastell claims she doesn't know why the people haven't gotten their money, but she's the one who fired all the people who knew how to get things done and hired folks who in didn't know how to get things done.
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Well said. That's the bottom line. The problem is the people she hired start doing ths same thing. Disrespecting, firing and in some cases demoting the people who understood how things worked.
So there are a number of issues here and I believe we are sweeping it under the rug because the students are going striking and stuff. Student OPS budgets are out of control. They should be paid but if the deparment facing a deficit they need to lay these students off or identify a source of funding. Otherwise we digging ourselves in deeper and just delaying the inevitable.
My concern is that we sweep this under the rug, create these deficts, Dr. Ammons comes on and lay students off to balance the budget, now he ends up looking like the bad guy.
Don't rob Petter to pay Paul.
Castell & Corbin have pulled off a Damascus Road hijacking of FAMU resources. This is robbery and a cover up folks.
ReplyDeleteThe problems are bigger than we know.
And larger than we can imagine...
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