Alex is right about salaries being fodder for "jokes" though I think they're starting to wear a bit thin by now...I've been trying to move towards the "flying scissors" genre lately, just to mix it up a bit.
As for facilities, it would be nice not to have water leaking onto and destroying papers in my office and while we're at it it would have been nice for Uni to have provided me with a computer when I arrived so I didn't have to run down the street twice a day to use my old accounts at Loomis (the Science Department informed me that such provisions were impossible) but for me at least these are minor issues.
For me, the most serious issue as a Uni employee has been the nearly-complete lack of transparency in administration. In recent years people at all levels of authority seem to have parceled out and/or withheld information as it suited their needs. So we ended up with rumors: of favored employees getting massive salary increases, of obscured lines of authority, of ghost-workers and professional negligence, of suspicious last-minute schedule changes, etc.
I don't know anybody at Uni expecting a multi-billion dollar Defense Department-kind of cash infusion. Instead, we have the best thing for which we could ever realistically hope: a leader with a ton of administrative experience who knows and respects our best traditions. It's one more great reason to shake off the water, breathe the chalk dust, kick the computer, and let those scissors fly.
I got my shades on...that's how bright the future looks
Alex is right about salaries being fodder for "jokes" though I think they're starting to wear a bit thin by now...I've been trying to move towards the "flying scissors" genre lately, just to mix it up a bit.
As for facilities, it would be nice not to have water leaking onto and destroying papers in my office and while we're at it it would have been nice for Uni to have provided me with a computer when I arrived so I didn't have to run down the street twice a day to use my old accounts at Loomis (the Science Department informed me that such provisions were impossible) but for me at least these are minor issues.
For me, the most serious issue as a Uni employee has been the nearly-complete lack of transparency in administration. In recent years people at all levels of authority seem to have parceled out and/or withheld information as it suited their needs. So we ended up with rumors: of favored employees getting massive salary increases, of obscured lines of authority, of ghost-workers and professional negligence, of suspicious last-minute schedule changes, etc.
I don't know anybody at Uni expecting a multi-billion dollar Defense Department-kind of cash infusion. Instead, we have the best thing for which we could ever realistically hope: a leader with a ton of administrative experience who knows and respects our best traditions. It's one more great reason to shake off the water, breathe the chalk dust, kick the computer, and let those scissors fly.