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Even if it's including all support staff that seems like kind of an insane ratio to me.
by TulliusCicero 4y ago
Even if it's including all support staff that seems like kind of an insane ratio to me.
- Beltalowda 4y ago"Seems like", sure. But a lot of thing "seem" this or that until you actually look at the details and context. Without that, it's essentially meaningless information.
- brewdad 4y agoSure. How many businesses have more employees than "customers"? It's not a perfect analog but it's not unreasonable to ask "what are we really doing here?" either.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> How many businesses have more employees than "customers"? Um, lots.
- brewdad 4y agoHow many of those have customers who generate less than the average employee's salary in revenues?
- malandrew 4y agoOther than some niche tiny firms catering to the stupidly wealthy (the 0.1% and above) like a dynastic family investment fund, I can’t think of any. Can you elaborate on some examples?
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Other than some niche tiny firms catering to the stupidly wealthy (the 0.1% and above) like a dynastic family investment fund, I can’t think of any. Very much not niche, not tiny firms catering to the even more stupidly wealthy than any individual human: customers aren’t always natural persons.
- astrange 4y agoThe reason it makes sense is the common view of “administrators are useless” is backwards. It’s the faculty that are replaceable. Students go to a university because they like the administration. It’s like a resort. (The faculty may be adding value by being in academia at all, but it doesn’t matter for students which particular ones you meet. It could if you wanted to enter academia yourself, but you definitely don’t want to do that.)