Last week, a Professor of mine found himself in a situation that provoked an interesting rant, I think the irony of said rant is fantastic, so here’s the story. It was the beginning of class, and the Professor in question wanted to erase the dry erase board, a simple enough thing. But lo and behold, the classroom contained not a single ounce of spritz solution, a four dollar liquidy substance needed in order to easily clean the dry erase board. So, while he was in the middle of trying to eradicate last hours teaching points, he turns to the class, and in a serious/crotchety tone says, “This is what budget cuts do.” Here’s the irony; it just so happens, that immediately to the right of the Professor, and the budget cut induced hard to erase dry erase board, is a brand new, installed that semester, SMARTboard which cost between 3,000-5,000 buckeroos. Oh the irony…
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Wow, that is priceless!!
I always thought budget cuts were interesting because they always make it sound like such a big deal and a hard thing to do, but then they go and waste money on un-needed or unused things when needed stuff isn’t around… Ahhh, the irony..