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Old quote, can't rememeber where I first heard it: "At universities, the employees get better parking than the customers". Although it wasn't true at my alma
by andyv 7y ago
Old quote, can't rememeber where I first heard it:
"At universities, the employees get better parking than the customers".
Although it wasn't true at my alma mater, where the only difference was that for staff and faculty the university would deduct the parking fees from your paycheck. For your convenience.
- cloudmanic 7y agoInteresting. Never thought about that. So true.
- richdougherty 7y agoMy parents owned a business, which I worked in sometimes. Working elsewhere I do really notice that employees capture a lot of benefits which perhaps should go to customers...
- benj111 7y agoAre students customers or product?
- pkaye 7y agoThe students pay so they are the customers. The product is the degree.
- benj111 7y agoI feel you could make an equal case for the government/lenders being the customer. I think you're probably right about students not being the product, they're more of a raw material? I'm being slightly cheeky, but I don't think the relationship is best viewed as the student being the customer, certainly not if the degree is the product.
- novok 7y agoYou could say the real customers are corporations, that students pay as a supplier.
- statusquoantefa 7y agoin most cases these days, the degree doesn't pay, so you're right, it must be the product.
- lonelappde 7y agoFaculty aren't employees at a good university. They are patronees. As are the students The customers who pay the bills have long since graduated.