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I just worked 10 years at a public state University. The inefficiency, cronyism, and often blatant corruption is staggering. At least with respect to universiti
by snomad 9y ago
I just worked 10 years at a public state University. The inefficiency, cronyism, and often blatant corruption is staggering. At least with respect to universities, there is some magic bank of "misused" money waiting to be tapped. But it is in no one's interests - not the high paid administrators, not the powerful local real estate developers and other businesses, and not the state and national politicians who generally work out a way to personally benefit from those big expensive projects.
Fun example of inefficiency,
- 2 units at university using same enterprise software package
- I propose consolidating to one license, 1 server, both departments split cost.
- Both department heads agree, both IT depts agree, campus IT agrees
- cancelled last minute
- that was 7 years ago, by now both departments combined (not each) would have saved $250k