Posted by Spanky on May 30, 2019, 9:55 pm, in reply to "Overtime"
The strategy was to overstaff the units people WANT to work at and send staff from those units to the units NOBODY wants to work out as needed (daily) in an effort to retain staff because they were supposed to be happy they were assigned to a primo unit and not a shithole. It's a horrible idea but it worked for a short term. We'll be on to the next scheme here shortly. It's all just shuffling numbers in the end. The legislature is never going to pay top dollar, so the fix is in making prison a desirable place to work again. Unfortunately the prevailing strategy has been oil field boom and bust. Starve when it's rigs up and be satisfactory when rigs down. Problem is... Anybody in the patch can tell you it ain't slowing down anytime soon...