I do web development and he does enterprise systems management for dbas, student, hr, and financials. Our shops were pretty small in comparison to other universities our size. My group lost 2 web developers, a associate director, and 1 programmer. We now are down to 2 web developers and 1 manager (a webdev promoted to manager and given the assoc director's duties) and 7 various level programmers. Hubby's groups went down to 2 programmers supporting each group (down from 3 or 4). They are not planning on posting any of those jobs. Our VP (ex-military) and new director believe we can always do more with less and plan on only promoting from within if at all possible.
It's frustrating because they don't want users to wait, but with only 2 of us (one working mainly payment forms creation and support and the other doing systems work and support) there is not a lot of wiggle room. Our manager needs to cover for us if we're out. They did add a QA position, but that person can't code or program or provide customer support to help with coverage, so the are just doing testing.
My daughter is in retail, not IT, and they have the same problem. Her store is able to be open and function with only 2 full-time workers and a manager. They share 1 part-time person with another store. Their store is open 7am-6pm M-Sat, and 9am-5pm on Sunday. And they get reprimanded if they work over 40hrs. To say they are spread very thin is an understatement. She lost the remainder of the vacation she had scheduled, not due to her fault, but because her co-worker's mother passed away last week. To allow her to take the time off for funeral planning, dealing with the estate issues, etc., our daughter's vacation was cancelled and lost because they don't allow roll-over. Since they're functional, they've been told that they won't be hiring another full time person.
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