08-29-2010, 04:51 PM
WilliamW Wrote:Gollin took a sabbatical--with full pay--from his job as a physics teacher at taxpayer financed University of Illinois to work on a "book" he already has been paid to write by the Crazy Guggenheim organization.
The physics department probably figured it was worth it to pay Gollum not to teach. That way they get a real teacher in the classroom for a change, and nobody pukes watching him scratch and sniff his foul bodily crevices.
It's a win/win for everyone but the taxpayers, and since when did government employees worry about them?
After all, the physics department recently closed the Physics Library and converted it into...a faculty lounge. Shows you where their priorities are.
You can't really expect people who are paid >$100,000 to teach physics to spend more than 16 weeks a school year actually teaching physics. Anything more would cut into their leisure time, hobbies, personal interests, rest, relaxation and pursuit of pleasure. And isn't that what government jobs are really all about?