Monday, April 24, 2006

VITA Update: Still Full of Poop

The Virginia Information Technologies Agency has backed down from its commitment to make sure agency employees get credit with Northrop Grumman for all their state retirement system service.

So a state employee for VITA who, for instance, applied his military service toward state retirement won't be able to do so when his job is switched to Northrop Grumman.

At least 111 workers at VITA could see their retirement dates pushed into the future as a result, officials said.

Makes me comfortable in thinking my tax dollars are being well-spent...

[entire article]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Backs down." Great way to say "Got caught lying."

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of a Monty Python skit: "This bird is dead." "No, it's not. It's just sleeping."

Student of Chaos said...

nothing like the bait and switch. i wonder if any of the less healthy state employees are looking at suing the state. i think a good argument for discrimination or breach of contract could be held.

Anonymous said...

i think a good case of discrimination could be justified. i know in one agency they only "seemed" to take the older and unhealthy workers and move them to VITA, while younger - age wise and employment wise -stayed with the agency. were they "deadheading" employees by their "natural selection" process? it it looks like poop, smells like poop, then it must be vita-speak poop.