We've been having a staffing issue here at work since October/November. My cleaning guy turned 62 and started drawing his SS. He had to cut his hours back to near half. The part time guy {who was going to move up to full time cleaning and maintenance} is a contractor, and what he planned on as a small income on the side has turned into the goose that laid the golden egg since the hurricane. {and you can't expect him to walk away from that kind of money} He is not only not full time, he is not putting in any hours, so the cleaning and maintenance hasn't been getting done like it should. My boss's thinking is the budget kept her from getting anyone new. But I figured the portion budgeted to the part time guy was not being used, so that much was in play, in addition to the difference in what the cleaning guy was budgeted and what he was actually drawing. And it's been like that for six months.
Anyway, three of my board members were here yesterday for something else, so I took the chance to talk to them about it. We walked around and looked at the building and grounds. Many things they pointed out that needed doing that I wasn't seeing, and I was seeing plenty. {some of the shortcomings were mine. The lobby plants look like hell for example} They said the budget didn't matter. They wrote it, so they could change it. Short term we are going to hire the cleaning guy's lady friend for 20 hours a week for cleaning. That will clear up more of his hours for maintenance. Long term plan is to hire a part time maintenance guy for around 20 hours a week. Will be full time for a month or two, just to get caught up. Right now finding people is really hard. Lots of money to be made working the hurricane.
I hope the boss is not too pissed at me for going over her head. But now we can get started on fixing our problems.