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Offline Mr. Rainman

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Re: President Obama Threatening to cut NWS budgets
« Reply #30 on: November 16, 2012, 06:28:39 PM »
BUMP.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/help-wanted-national-weather-service-seeks-financial-chief-to-institute-employee-reductions/2012/11/16/89280c82-3029-11e2-9f50-0308e1e75445_blog.html

This is stunning news. The NWS is looking for a CFO - to trim down the workforce. This comes only a few weeks after Sandy rolled through the Northeast. This is NOAA's proposal, by the way - as far as I can tell, neither Congress or Obama had anything to do with this.

I've already ranted enough about this topic but I thought I'd pass this along.
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Re: President Obama Threatening to cut NWS budgets
« Reply #31 on: November 18, 2012, 10:09:35 PM »
There are a lot of employees at the NWS who are only a couple of years away from retirement. I am sure early retirement will be offered just like other companies have done. They're gonna go younger.
See also #23622, Ch. 31, Hammond, La.