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December 10, 2008 at 6:14 PM #314404December 10, 2008 at 7:39 PM #313971kewpParticipant
[quote=meadandale]kewp you need to practice what you preach…
Didn’t you just get hired at UCSD? The UC system is a poster child for government largess and excess. Apparently you don’t follow the news about the institution you work for.[/quote]
Everyone I know in the UC system work their butts off. The starting salaries for many of the faculty are under 50k a year. And these are all Phd’s of course. None of them are here to make bank or slack off. They want to teach.
And trust me, nobody hates public sector dead wood more than the staff that have to cover for them. Hence my enthusiasm for budget cuts; as it might give some departments the leverage with HR to get rid of the poor performers.
For myself personally, I know that replacing me with a private sector consultant would cost the Uni at least 3-5 times my salary on an annual basis. And that is a conservative estimate.
So apparently either I am grossly underpaid or the public sector is much more efficient than the private sector in my case. Take your pick.
December 10, 2008 at 7:39 PM #314330kewpParticipant[quote=meadandale]kewp you need to practice what you preach…
Didn’t you just get hired at UCSD? The UC system is a poster child for government largess and excess. Apparently you don’t follow the news about the institution you work for.[/quote]
Everyone I know in the UC system work their butts off. The starting salaries for many of the faculty are under 50k a year. And these are all Phd’s of course. None of them are here to make bank or slack off. They want to teach.
And trust me, nobody hates public sector dead wood more than the staff that have to cover for them. Hence my enthusiasm for budget cuts; as it might give some departments the leverage with HR to get rid of the poor performers.
For myself personally, I know that replacing me with a private sector consultant would cost the Uni at least 3-5 times my salary on an annual basis. And that is a conservative estimate.
So apparently either I am grossly underpaid or the public sector is much more efficient than the private sector in my case. Take your pick.
December 10, 2008 at 7:39 PM #314362kewpParticipant[quote=meadandale]kewp you need to practice what you preach…
Didn’t you just get hired at UCSD? The UC system is a poster child for government largess and excess. Apparently you don’t follow the news about the institution you work for.[/quote]
Everyone I know in the UC system work their butts off. The starting salaries for many of the faculty are under 50k a year. And these are all Phd’s of course. None of them are here to make bank or slack off. They want to teach.
And trust me, nobody hates public sector dead wood more than the staff that have to cover for them. Hence my enthusiasm for budget cuts; as it might give some departments the leverage with HR to get rid of the poor performers.
For myself personally, I know that replacing me with a private sector consultant would cost the Uni at least 3-5 times my salary on an annual basis. And that is a conservative estimate.
So apparently either I am grossly underpaid or the public sector is much more efficient than the private sector in my case. Take your pick.
December 10, 2008 at 7:39 PM #314383kewpParticipant[quote=meadandale]kewp you need to practice what you preach…
Didn’t you just get hired at UCSD? The UC system is a poster child for government largess and excess. Apparently you don’t follow the news about the institution you work for.[/quote]
Everyone I know in the UC system work their butts off. The starting salaries for many of the faculty are under 50k a year. And these are all Phd’s of course. None of them are here to make bank or slack off. They want to teach.
And trust me, nobody hates public sector dead wood more than the staff that have to cover for them. Hence my enthusiasm for budget cuts; as it might give some departments the leverage with HR to get rid of the poor performers.
For myself personally, I know that replacing me with a private sector consultant would cost the Uni at least 3-5 times my salary on an annual basis. And that is a conservative estimate.
So apparently either I am grossly underpaid or the public sector is much more efficient than the private sector in my case. Take your pick.
December 10, 2008 at 7:39 PM #314454kewpParticipant[quote=meadandale]kewp you need to practice what you preach…
Didn’t you just get hired at UCSD? The UC system is a poster child for government largess and excess. Apparently you don’t follow the news about the institution you work for.[/quote]
Everyone I know in the UC system work their butts off. The starting salaries for many of the faculty are under 50k a year. And these are all Phd’s of course. None of them are here to make bank or slack off. They want to teach.
And trust me, nobody hates public sector dead wood more than the staff that have to cover for them. Hence my enthusiasm for budget cuts; as it might give some departments the leverage with HR to get rid of the poor performers.
For myself personally, I know that replacing me with a private sector consultant would cost the Uni at least 3-5 times my salary on an annual basis. And that is a conservative estimate.
So apparently either I am grossly underpaid or the public sector is much more efficient than the private sector in my case. Take your pick.
December 10, 2008 at 8:00 PM #313982sdduuuudeParticipantWell, at least we can agree on that.
December 10, 2008 at 8:00 PM #314340sdduuuudeParticipantWell, at least we can agree on that.
December 10, 2008 at 8:00 PM #314372sdduuuudeParticipantWell, at least we can agree on that.
December 10, 2008 at 8:00 PM #314393sdduuuudeParticipantWell, at least we can agree on that.
December 10, 2008 at 8:00 PM #314464sdduuuudeParticipantWell, at least we can agree on that.
December 10, 2008 at 8:16 PM #313997paramountParticipantIn general, if the private sector chooses to be inefficient that’s up to the company -but the market will eventually eat them alive and they’ll be gone.
That’s the way the system should work.
I value gov’t workers, but the state has made deals with unions that are simply not affordable – and on the backs of private sector workers (who can only dream of such benefits).
That is largely what is taking the state broke.
December 10, 2008 at 8:16 PM #314355paramountParticipantIn general, if the private sector chooses to be inefficient that’s up to the company -but the market will eventually eat them alive and they’ll be gone.
That’s the way the system should work.
I value gov’t workers, but the state has made deals with unions that are simply not affordable – and on the backs of private sector workers (who can only dream of such benefits).
That is largely what is taking the state broke.
December 10, 2008 at 8:16 PM #314387paramountParticipantIn general, if the private sector chooses to be inefficient that’s up to the company -but the market will eventually eat them alive and they’ll be gone.
That’s the way the system should work.
I value gov’t workers, but the state has made deals with unions that are simply not affordable – and on the backs of private sector workers (who can only dream of such benefits).
That is largely what is taking the state broke.
December 10, 2008 at 8:16 PM #314408paramountParticipantIn general, if the private sector chooses to be inefficient that’s up to the company -but the market will eventually eat them alive and they’ll be gone.
That’s the way the system should work.
I value gov’t workers, but the state has made deals with unions that are simply not affordable – and on the backs of private sector workers (who can only dream of such benefits).
That is largely what is taking the state broke.
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