Wednesday, August 24, 2016

academic institutions are, quote, workplaces

“The sweep of this decision is so broad that it’s really likely to transform many, many academic institutions into, quote, workplaces.”

Um, yes, Mr. Lawyer Dude, of course academic institutions are workplaces. How on earth could this be new information? What is an academic institution if it's not a workplace? A studyplace? A thoughtplace? A place where people walk around in monk's robes, eating only berries and reading Kant 16 hours a day?

I so love when people assume that professors and teaching assistants do their work purely for the love of it. If people get paid to work someplace, then it's a workplace.