Short stories of memorable incidences taking place on college campuses.
The state of California campus systems have job position guidelines. HR units on each campus will use those to set campus standards for hiring and for job evaluations, called desk audits. One staff member thought he qualified for being a TV Engineer. He currently held the position of Equipment Technician III. He was told by HR that only one TV Engineer was allowed on any state campus. That is in the state documents. The bad: after he retired, he found…
The bad: allegedly a staff member was brought up on charges of assaulting another staff member. The good: During the legal proceedings, allegedly, the attorney for the university discovered that the work unit administrator was so allegedly deficient that the campus had to pay a very large settlement to the very employee that they wanted to punish. That employee, it is rumored, took that money and became a very successful day trader.
Two new TV studios had to be built on the same campus where a very large TV studio practically sat empty, only occasionally used for acting classes. The cost to the taxpayers for this duplication allegedly was in the millions.
The bad: A professor applied for a teaching position at another campus but was not hired. He found out from a friend working at the university where he applied for the job that the department chair allegedly hired a personal friend. The good: The other faculty members in the department found this out and had the department chairman fired.
High level managers can determine how university money is spent. The bad: Some times managers can use state funding to pay to make up for management errors which can result in state funds unnecessarily being drained. One example of this is poorly planned construction which often times comes from rushed jobs. College campuses must continue to function and the best times for construction is during semester breaks, which in most cases is way too short. If administrators fail to do…
