Well, I finally pinned down the folks who know what’s happening, and got them to tell me what they had planned for me. The Cliff Notes summary? I’m being set up and screwed.
For the last six months, the Powers That Be have been beating the drums to have the applications of foreign nationals reviewed centrally and their licenses or id cards mailed to them if their documentation checks out. Now, aside from the fact that this is just asking for id theft, it’s against years of federal statutes and case law about discrimination on the basis of national origin. I have not been restrained about stating my opinion of this enterprise, either. But generally, I just give advice. It’s up to the Powers themselves whether they take it.
The kicker? They intend to put me in charge of that monstrosity, at – get this – a 50% cut in pay. I literally haven’t made that little since the mid-eighties. I have the strong feeling I’m being set up to take the fall for something ill advised that they know is going to generate lots and lots of law suits that the state is going to lose. It beats unemployment in that we still have things like insurance which we desperately need, but only barely. I wish to heaven I could simply quit. For some odd reason, my heart is no longer in my work.