LAYOFFS AGAIN

[mburbank]

The economy? Getting better. Slowly.

Job growth? Just about zero.

Economy and job growth in my state? Nonexistant.

As far as cultural institutions in the greater Boston area go, my Museum and the MFA are the most solid, but we're all doing shit attendance. We're in the middle of a strategic campaign to realign ourselves for reaseacrh and technology and engineering education so we're way less reliant of attendance. The question is how far we've gotten with that as opposed to how much of a hit we took.

I honestly don't think my job is in danger at all, but I'd say the chances of my getting an assitant this year just went out the window. That's bad because my administrative load goes up with every grant speciffic researcher we hire, plus I really want to expand into professional developement training. We got lots of smart folks but they don't always know how to play well together in teams, which is a big skill set for me. As recently as a week or so ago they were looking at throwing a lot of that work my way. If we have big layoffs, I doubt we'll be doing any teambuilding stuff. Plus the tension is very thick.