{"id":1116,"date":"2019-12-13T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2019-12-16T18:50:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:50:36","slug":"are-you-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/12\/13\/are-you-still-here\/","title":{"rendered":"ARE YOU STILL HERE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\">Our last issue recounted the University&#8217;s decision to remove the email accounts of hundreds of retired staff on a cost-benefit analysis that determined that they were no longer worth the expense. Since then, we&#8217;ve heard from a further six readers: all retired members of staff; all dedicated supporters of the university; and all cheesed-off at having been told to Foxtrot Oscar by the organisation to which many of them have dedicated over half of their lives. In a letter to subtext, Gerry Cotter observes that, even as it tells its former members to go away, the University manages to add an extra helping of unpleasantness. Another reader notes that &#8216;the excuse this time seems to be a change of Microsoft site licensing, when it was only last year that we were all forced to move to Microsoft!&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\">The most frustrating aspect of this, of course, is the lack of any serious recourse. When, in 2015, University Council discussed removing privileges from retired members (see subtext 128), at least the matter was being discussed at senior committee level. This decision seems to have just happened, as a way to balance the books, with no approval needed. How many of today&#8217;s Council members are even aware of the issue?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our last issue recounted the University&#8217;s decision to remove the email accounts of hundreds of retired staff on a cost-benefit analysis that determined that they were no longer worth the expense. Since then, we&#8217;ve heard from a further six readers: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/12\/13\/are-you-still-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[205],"tags":[532,30,537,512],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsflash","tag-emeriti","tag-iss","tag-issue-191","tag-staff-alumni"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-i0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1086,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/11\/01\/goodbye-emeriti\/","url_meta":{"origin":1116,"position":0},"title":"GOODBYE EMERITI!","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"November 1 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Sad news reaches subtext from a retired member of staff. The University has decided to delete his email account, along with the email accounts of many other retired and honorary staff, with effect from the beginning of November. A curtly-worded email from ISS informs those about to lose their accounts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1179,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/02\/19\/letters-27\/","url_meta":{"origin":1116,"position":1},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 19 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, Claire Geddes, the former CEO of LUSU, was seconded to work on 'strategic projects' for barely a week before her name appeared on the LU website in another capacity: she is now the University's Head of Governance Services, overseeing Information Governance (e.g. FoI) and the University's own internal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;letters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1246,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/03\/27\/subtext-193-stay-home-and-read-subtext\/","url_meta":{"origin":1116,"position":2},"title":"subtext 193 &#8211; &#8216;stay home and read subtext&#8217;","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"March 27 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Every so often during term time (and sometimes slightly later). 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