OK, we'll keep this brief.
The staff here received an e-mail last night directly from the President and CEO -- it's so rare that we hear from him it's a shanda. He directs us to keep on trucking even though our jobs are now at risk. And, why are they at risk? Because those mean old Large City Executives are demanding a big budget cut -- yeah, it's their fault. This is no Harry Truman writing us.
So, maybe the President and CEO will also consider cutting his compensation first. Yeah, sure.
8 comments:
I do not believe that HowardRieger would ever write an iternal memo that 'Large City Executives are demanding a big budget cut" and then reference a direct relation to anyone's employee status!
Lets see the memo or I and others will see this post as just GOSSIP and inuendo.
Again let's see the memo....I know alot of people that would be fuming if this is actually down in writng like you present it to be.
Thanks, Fran/Richard for acknowledging the few past comments i've made in your post below.
And you claim that I am the one who is bothered?! HA!
It's too bad, although hardly surpring, that you chose not to respond to the central question I posed to you:
what data do you use to substantiate your claim that the departed UJC "professionals" were an asset to the system?
Did Agron do a great job growing the donor base? Does ANYONE at ujc mourn her departure? Did you really add any value to ujc's (woefully incompetent) marketing efforts, Fran?
Or should I address this to Richard Wexler?
As I commented previously, the real scandal here is not that you were both finally pushed out the door, but, rather, that you were each enabled by and promoted through the system in the first place.
and finally a bit of advice: now that you have much more time on your hands, perhaps you can spend it doing something more constructive than pretending to be a disgruntled, junior UJC staffer.
and thanks for the editing provided below, fran/richard. some of us are too busy to proof-read.
The historic inability of UJC to make the necessary changes has resulted in the disaffection of the major federations. They all were aware of the ineptitude of the senior staff in the FRD department. Unfortunately the job of reforming UJC has fallen on Rieger's shoulders after Hoffman and Solender were either unwilling or unable to bite the bullet. It is widely known that the FRD professional leadership was totally ineffective and brought us such stellar leaders Selig (how about another glass of water as you choke up...great theatrics).
We should also be looking closely at the supplemetary overseas giving program headed by Shavit. No one has ever been able to get a real accounting of his efforts. Wexler used to raise this question constantly until he got the UIA chair. Something rotten in Denmark?
fromwhereisat,
Your continued wild, unfounded and so wrong speculation gets stranger and stranger by the Comment.
We still hope you will get the professional help you seem to need. Others here, who think they know who you are, concur.
ujc boys/girls,
i hope you are satisfied with the direction your "wonderful" blog has now taken us. Name calling is very productive, huh. And nameless accusations are very helpful also, huh. Seems to me that if you were really driven by a concern for the well being of our Federation system you would engage in an open dialogue in which you don't hide behind the guise of being someone who you are clearly not (you as much as admitted previously that you were not the low level staff you pretend to be).
your efforts have not raised the level of discourse. In fact, any legitimate concerns that you might have raised (been raising) have been lost in your apparent efforts to simply bring down the current administration. The focus on what ails us (and it is far more than just the personality conflict between a few people) has been lost and has been replaced with a back and forth of personal attacks. Not very productive in my mind.
For the sake of our system (if you really care about it) I would urge you to focus on the challenges that we are all struggling with and not the nasty continual tearing down of an organization that is trying to head in teh right direction despite many years of neglect.
While we view "committed to community's" Comment to be a serious one, in the end, it proved to be no mre than accusations of the same variety that "committeed to community" condemns. The suggestion that we aren't who we claim to be is made up out of whole cloth, the suggestion that we are trying to do no more than "...bring down the current administration" just plain wrong. When this administration accomplishes something...we'll applaud as we have for Katrina, as we do for Peer Yardstick...but, come on, everyone who reads this Blog and in involved in federation and UJC, knows that this administration, through some of your Comments, continues to defend the inmdefensible, and continues to look for scapegoats for its failures.
Instead of attacking us for this Blog, we urge you to ask one two questions: What did you do with the $40.5 million Budget in 2007-08; and what have been the measurable accomplishments of the Reorganization Strategy (which you promised us, the staff, and federation leaders around the country would be self-evident) over the same time frame? Ask, and listen to the "answers."
Or, just keep reading and writing us. It's all our fault, for sure.
Bury the corpse and start over. Call a Jewish Constitutional Convention and create a new union.
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