Hat tip to Joanne Jacobs for this–and you’d better be sitting down, with your smelling salts and heart medication nearby. A school principal says:
“The more you fail, the more money they throw at you,” he said. “We’re filthy rich; I don’t want any more of your money. Send me quality teachers.”
I need to lie down for a minute. I can feel the blood rushing to my head.
dragonlady474 says:
Dang! Is this guy running for President? He’d sure get my vote.
May 7, 2007, 2:50 pmMitch H. says:
This is not a phenomenon exclusive to public schools. My workplace can be described in much the same fashion. We’re suddenly awash in money, and yet we’re losing programmers left and right. I’ve cried bitterly that “money can’t code”, but all of our new hires for the last *nine months* have been everything *other* than new programmers. We’ve lost a half-dozen programmers in the last year, and the only replacement we’ve successfully hired hasn’t written a single line of working code in over nine months.
I’m counting time until my project gets canceled for lack of performance & I hit the unemployment line. You can’t do quality control on a nonfunctional system…
And still! Lots of money! We’ve pulled in more this year than in the last four combined. It’s all going to creating the administrative overhead of a company three times our size.
It’s all been remarkably sickening, to be honest.
May 9, 2007, 2:10 pm