And so, the hachet shall swing...

...and land where it shall.

The latest rumor that is a bit more than rumor: all City departments that use overtime have been called to the carpet, and told to "make do with what you have"--politico-speak for "your overtime is gone". This includes Custodians, which means that circumstance must be dire; the SEIU can rally thousands for protests, and shut down Government Center a few years ago in one such demonstration. If Menino is willing to alienate SEIU...

As to my own department, it's a bit more iffy; assuming that the 10 lucky souls currently undergoing SPO training will be hired by the City, then the OT is gone. If not, we'll have enough OT to keep most of our heads above water (in this kind of work, you don't live off the milk, you live off the cream). My worry is what kind of pressure the disappearance of OT will have on the other members of our unit, and how management will exploit it.

So it goes.