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- From: egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Oh, and one more ...
- Message-ID: <24130@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 13:19:00 GMT
- References: <14imtkINNboq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <39544@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <39821@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- In article <39821@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) writes:
- =>
- =>The reason why the new buildings in this place do not have basements
- =>is due to the perennial, pandemic problem of short-termism. Because
- =>it's cheaper to just build them above ground, in the long run everyone
- =>suffers more. You'd have thought that a bit of long-term planning and
- =>foresight would be prevalent in a university, but apparently not.
-
- Why on earth would you have thought that? Is there any precedent for such
- planning? Having just netted a contract worth over 40,000 smackers in
- overheads to the university, I have discovered that there is no room in
- the brand-new building for me to site my brand new sooper-dooper
- workstation. Maybe I should get a job as a secretary - then I could do
- what I do best - bugger up everybody else's work, and get paid for it,
- and get my own office!
-
- --
- -Jeremy Henderson egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk
-
- (or am I?)
-