View single post by steve of oxford
 Posted: Sat Jun 2nd, 2012 15:31
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Being an ex-employee of the publicly funded scientific sector, let me give you an example of the typical publicly funded scientist's day;

1) Arrive at work some time after 9 am.
2) Get coffee sit on bum in coffee lounge.
3) Waffle to someone for half an hour.
4) Wander to office.
5) Sit down at desk with another coffee.
6) Turn on PC.
7) 10 am...time to go to the coffee lounge.
8) 10.45 am...wander back to office.
9) 11 am...time for mid morning coffee, go to coffee lounge.
10) 11.45 am....go back to office.
11) Oh bugger, it's lunch time, go to staff restaurant.
12) Eat artsy-fartsy lunch, waffle a lot to colleagues.
13) 13.45...go back to office.
14) Note from internal e-mail the afternoon's lecture theater invite.
15) Go to lecture theater, waffle and drink coffee in foyer.
16) Sit in back row, go to sleep when lights dimmed.
17) After lecture drink more coffee in foyer and waffle lots.
18) 1500...wander back to office.
19) Damn it's afternoon tea break.
20) Waffle & coffee.
21) Go back to office, damn there's only half an hour left, may as well turn PC off.
22) May as well go to pigeon hole and collect the £50K payslip.
23) Go home, put feet up, read paper, skipping over the bit where it say's non-academia people are losing their jobs by their thousands.

And folk wonder where tax money goes ! The above is ABSOLUTELY TRUE! I should know for eleven years I watched the monkies getting away with it.

So, don't go believing what these over paid doom mongers tell you, they're doing nothing more than smoke & mirrors in trying to convince people they know what they're talking about, just to stay in that cushy number and preserve a cushy pension and a cushy post retirement consultancy on 500 quid a day.

They come out with any old crap just to make you think we need them. Fact is most of 'em get paid vast sums of our money for doing nothing of any benefit to the country. It'd be better to trade these money wasters for better NHS, more police on the streets etc.

Last edited on Sat Jun 2nd, 2012 15:48 by steve of oxford