Our office is cutting at the moment - we don't have the money! BS - they do, they just think it won't last all year, then towards the end of the financial year (June 30 here) they will say, ooops, we've got money left, we'd better spend it.

In the mean time, voluntary reduncies are being offered, vacancies are not being filled & my poor interstate colleague was told by his bosses to work 25% harder. He sounded exhausted the day I called him - what with lack of staff & stuffed technology life is hard.

Since the office changed to Windows XP his system takes 14 minutes to search for a record & as you could imagine they have a huge backlog. The IT folks say it will get better. If you manage to survive, I said.

sandra