Looking at possible layoffs. Well we got the word today that the University has to cut the budget 18% this yr. So the first step is they are going to offer a 1 yr buy out for retirement purposes and see how many people take them up on the offer. Then they are freezing pay raises….of course the President just got a $400,000 pay raise in December while the rest of us got nothing. I would think that $400,000 would do a good job towards letting all of us keep our jobs or giving us a small raise.

And of course then the layoffs start. I have almost 13 yrs but that may not be enough to keep me at the University. I hope and pray it is, I take some very expensive meds for my Rheumatoid Arthritis and to be honest I’m not sure who would hire me in this day and age with the medical problems I have. Even though they aren’t allowed to discriminate with as many layoffs as the University has done in the last year and the fact that our economy in Appalachia is cruddy! I doubt I would find a job very easily! Damn Damn Damn is how I feel.

The stress of this I know will start my RA flaring, it already has been with just all of the weather changes. I spent most of yesterday in bed or on the couch because I hurt so bad.
And I know that I’ll have to deal with depression with all of this!

Oh well lets think happy thoughts, I might be able to talk my Doc into signing for disability if I see they are going to boot me that would mean my insurance would continue and I’d make a little bit every month. I would still probably have to declare bankruptcy but at least I would have a small bit of money!