List, Although I do enjoy my job here at ASU, and appreciate the public vote of confidence offered by Brent, I would like to state for the record that one can never have too much vacation time! Rick - I'd rather be at the lake - Florence on 10/29/00 9:58 AM, Brent.Fischer@asu.edu at Brent.Fischer@asu.edu wrote: > Dear List: > > Just a quick note on the situation at Arizona State University in > Tempe. We are staffed , budgeted, and reasonably paid. Excellent > benefits, more vacation time than we can use and the national holidays > are just starting to kick in. Dr. Wanye Bailey totally supports all > maintenance requests that help facilitate his mission to make this school > reach the top five list of public schools in the U.S. The environment > and culture built by a strong administrator is probably the key in > making the faculty and staff enthusiastic about working together > to achieve his or her goals. The facility, the national reputation of the > ASU faculty, the economic growth of the region, the perfect winter > weather, all go hand in hand to raise the level of expectation of > of each support unit, those expectations cannot be reached unless they > are funded at a comparable level, simple as that, and they know it. > > Rick Florence and Brent Fischer are "Monster Technicians" and if perhaps > qualification of such a balantly egotistical statement would be helpful for > any official documentation, those of you interested are more than welcome > to write or call Mr. Jim Coleman of Tempe, or more accurately, Dr.Coleman. > Equally important here is that if the senior technician crashed and > burned on his moutain bike the second tech in charge here, Mr. Florence > would be able to take the reins with the full confidence of the faculty > and carry on. I operate mostly with a shared goverance mindset so we can > share our different points of view without threat, the synergetic approach. > > Facts that they maybe useful for comparisons: > > 1. School of Music enrollment, about 750, 65 faculty, and 24 staff > 2. tech 1 salary about $44,000.00 > 3. tech 11 salary about $ 41,000.00 > 4. student worker budget, based on work study $1500. really means $3500. > 5. live inventory about 170 instruments > a. 34 Steinway grand (4 years old) > b. another dozen or so older Steinways > c. eight Mason grands nine years old > d. about 23 U1 uprights and a few older ones > e. assorted older Kawai uprights > f. loan program with Kawai and Baldwin/ eleven GE 1 grands > Baldwin uprights/ about 34 total loaned pianos > 6. budget: only $5000 per year but have been funded well above that > with one-time funds thru the nine years I have been here > 7. staff development: good travel support to conventions, etc. > 8. work schedules: flexible > 9. job satisfaction: excellent > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------- > Brent Fischer > Senior Piano Technician > Arizona State University > > > _____________ Rick Florence Piano Technician Arizona State University, School of Music
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