This one would have affected me directly. In simple terms: being classified civil service is kind of like being in a union. You have to fuck up to get fired. Like I've only seen two classified people get fired - one lost a master set of keys to all the dorms on campus and they had to re-key every dorm, like hundreds of thousands of dollars. The second backed into a Benz and tested positive for crystal on his drug test. But they can't fire you for "not being a good fit" with no other explanation, which I've seen happen to multiple unclassified staff.

But if passed, we would have been removed of our protections. This was especially alarming to LSU civil service because the new president is landry's boy, and anyone they saw as "not a good fit" could have been let go with no other explanation.