Why oh why... University administration, do you feel it necessary to have people work around the calendar year when clearly so little is going on during the summer?
No no, I get it, there are summer classes and maintenance and programming and preparing for fall and all of that.
We can't close business, I'm not saying we should, just that it makes no sense to push for all 12-month contracts when it would save the university money and increase people's life quality if some people could be on 10 and 11 month contracts.
Is it really that hard for pay roll to figure out?
Is that why?
This reminds me of China when teachers were encouraged to bring sleeping mats to work so they could take a nap during meaninglessly long workdays.
You can't go home, we might need you, but you don't have to work the whole time you're here either.
A secretary I know brings books and magazines to the office to keep entertained during the long summer days. That's what her boss told her to do when she asked what all she should be doing during the summer, since there are no students in their departments.
Read magazines.
On the university dollar.
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