Sentences with phrase «skeleton staff»

A volunteer skeleton staff remains on duty in case a client needs help, but everyone else gets to kick back in relax.

Record numbers of consumers drive out to malls, big boxes and smaller retailers only to be ignored by skeleton staffs and made to feel like they are troubling the staff when asking for help.

However, requiring the service to operate through the charitable goodwill of its already overworked skeleton staff is an unreasonable and untenable demand.

We had already tied up most of our capital in buying inventory, hiring a skeleton staff and building new locations.

Amazingly, only a skeleton staff needed to be present to oversee the high - profile launch.

With Castro scheduled to step down from the presidency in April, Washington is represented in Havana by only a skeleton staff at a potentially critical moment of transition.

Restaurants must maintain a skeleton staff to be ready to serve walk - in customers even on days when there aren't enough customers to justify the base payroll costs.

Rather, CDL has acted like a startup itself, driven by ingenuity and purpose and managed by a skeleton staff on a shoestring budget mostly financed by the private sector and individuals.

Bases handling flights to and from Afghanistan will function on a skeleton staff next week, when Ministry of Defence (MoD) firefighters join strikes against pension changes.

The situation has grown so dire for Trump, who is working with a skeleton staff of relatives and business associates based out of Trump Towers in Manhattan, that he suggested he might tap his personal fortune to keep the campaign afloat.

The union leader predicted that the skeleton staff of remaining workers may wind up having to rove between locks to provide necessary coverage, racking up large amounts of overtime and offsetting anticipated cost savings.

The department is already operating with a skeleton staff and is required by contract to maintain certain staffing levels.

We're down to a skeleton staff.

If the deepest cuts happen, Fort Drum could be mothballed and left with a skeleton staff.

With a possible government shutdown only a few days away, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to be ready to send in a skeleton staff to care for patients and maintain animals and experiments at the agency's Bethesda, Maryland, campus.

Most government scientists have been ordered to stay at home, their offices and labs closed or run by a skeleton staff of «essential» workers.

Reportedly, the customer support center now has a skeleton staff of about 5 or 6 persons, as a source told the Tribune «around half - a-dozen employees remain, to keep things ticking over, but things have been wound down there.

A recent report by his department blames «successive governments» for their failure to fund more than a «skeleton staff» at small schools, and says it is time to «reimagine» education in small schools and isolated villages.

Convinced that many accomplished recent college graduates seek work that offers significant responsibility and makes a real difference in the world, the 21 - year - old Kopp raised $ 2.5 million of start - up funding, hired a skeleton staff, and launched a grassroots recruiting campaign.

Bartram's new principal left a few days into the school year after her cellphone was stolen, staff members say (her replacement was herself replaced for the current year), and the school, operating with a skeleton staff, slipped into total disarray.

Several resorts close for the May to October rainy season, and those that stay open operate with limited room options and skeleton staffs.

At the end of 2012, Disney cancelled Star Wars 1313 along with all other internal developments at LucasArts, after wholly acquiring the Star Wars franchise, letting go of most of the staff at LucasArts and essentially shutting the game studio down, keeping it just alive enough (with a skeleton staff of roughly 10 employees) to function as a video game licensor.

Whilst the majority of our staff will be attending the protest rallies in Washington D.C. and New York City on January 21, we will remain open with a skeleton staff for the last day of the exhibition Hugo McCloud: Veiled.

TreeHugger was on skeleton staff this week, but those not traipsing around Las Vegas used their MacGyver - like skills to cobble posts together out of old yarn, coconut oil, squished light bulbs and a bit of canvas.

The administrator thought he would be more likely to sell the club as a going concern with a skeleton staff in place.