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| A Word to the Wise |
| How many of you check your leave and earnings statement when you receive them? Verify the state and federal exemptions, to ensure your leave balances are accurate? |
| Now is a good time to start. The Cincinnati TPC is closing. We have serviced many business units throughout the years, most recently AWSS, CI, LMSB and TEGE. |
| We have been ranked number one for a lot of those years. We have taken pride in the service that we have given to our customers. Simply, we cared. |
| The “one stop shop” no longer exists. The work has been divided into 4 Payroll Centers, Austin, Memphis, Ogden, and Philadelphia. The Austin TPC will handle debt management and records, Memphis TPC - timekeeping, Ogden - employee services, and Philadelphia – administrative payroll. If you are confused by all this join the club. Basically, what this means is you can not go to one TPC to resolve a problem that you are having. It could take as many as three TPCs to completely resolve a issue. And that means time. Possibly, money. |
| For those of you that have been serviced by Cincinnati in the past, may already be feeling the change that has occurred. Others may experience the change later. So, a word to the wise, watch your leave and earnings statement. I know as a TPC employee I will. The Cincinnati TPC would like to wish you good luck. |
| -- Wilma |
| 8/21/2005 |
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| President’s note: |
| I would like to offer my sincere thanks to all of the conscientious, dedicated employees of the soon-to-be defunct Cincinnati TPC. |
| For reasons unknown (and most certainly unjustified) to any of us here in Cincinnati, some executive decision was made to centralize Transactional Processing Centers. Cincinnati was not an executively-chosen site. Consequently, 30+ hard-working employees – many of whom have experience in nothing but personnel or payroll arenas – were told that their award-winning services were no longer needed. I hope, and I sincerely believe, that every affected employee will be able to find a job here in the Cincinnati area, without having their life uprooted by an involuntary relocation to a far-away TPC site…..Memphis, Philadelphia, or Ogden. |
| However, that being said, many of these fine, multi-year employees are going to be forced to take downgraded positions…..hopefully, these will provide opportunities, and not future obstacles to their careers. |
| In closing, I was going to throw in a quote from Petronius Arbiter maligning change and reorganization, but research indicates it wasn’t really his, so I’ll use one that is probably more appropriate in a base sort of way: |
| “Alas! Worse every day! This colony grows backward, like the tail of a calf.” |
| Guess they had the same problems with bureaucratic BS 2000 years ago! |
| -- Laura L. Banks, NTEU Chapter 9 President |
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