Let's Get These Guys to Run Health Care
From the New York Post via Carpe Diem and TJIC:
For
seven hours a day, five days a week, hundreds of Department of
Education employees - who've been accused of wrongdoing ranging from
buying a plant for a school against the principal's wishes to
inappropriately touching a student - do absolutely no work.The
Post has learned that the number of salaried teachers sitting idly
waiting for their cases to be heard has exploded to 757 this year -
more than twice the number just two years ago - at a cost of about $40
million a year, based on the median teacher salary.The city pays millions more for substitute teachers and employees to replace them and to lease rubber-room space.
Meanwhile,
the 757 - paid from $42,500 to $93,400 a year - bring in lounge chairs
to recline, talk on their cellphones and watch movies on portable DVD
players, according to interviews with more than 50 employees.
somebody:
Why don't I just become a government employee? Oh, right. I'd have to kill myself for being so useless.
October 11, 2007, 9:50 amsomebody:
Why don't I just become a government employee? Oh, right. I'd have to kill myself for being so useless.
October 11, 2007, 9:50 amsomebody:
Why don't I just become a government employee? Oh, right. I'd have to kill myself for being so useless.
October 11, 2007, 9:50 amLarry Sheldon:
Seems to me like there is a good idea here.
Why not put _all_ of the teachers in the program.
Reduce immeasurably the damage being done to our youngsters.
October 11, 2007, 10:54 amwhitie1979:
I wonder if this type of practice is different for law enforcement or other "admin" leaves.
October 15, 2007, 8:46 am