Do I look like a senator to you?

[clevermanka]

I was just approached by someone who works in the college about serving on KU's University Support Staff Senate. She thinks I would be especially good in the legislative affairs subcommittee which lobbies state reps and senators for state-wide classified support staff interests.

The only reason I'm even considering accepting her nomination for the position is there've been rumors for a couple years about moving support staff from Classified (basically, hourly pay rate) to Unclassified (salaried). Those rumors are looking more and more likely to become reality in the next three to five years, and that makes me nervous. I know there are perks to being salaried, but I am quite fond of the simple in-and-out exchange of being an hourly employee. That and I don't trust the system not to fuck us over with any sort of classification change. If it's going to happen anyway (and it looks like it might) it would be kind of nice to scream pointlessly into the wind have my voice heard during the transition.

But do I want to add this to my already-significantly-increased workload now?

Magic 8 Ball says Answer Hazy. Try Again Later.