Bureaucrats at my university are forcing the faculty members (and when I say forcing, I mean they threaten all faculty members with being fired on the spot in spite of our contracts and tenure) to sign a document in which we promise that from now on we will report all acts of child molestation and abuse that come to our attention. To ensure that we do report child abuse, we are given the official title of “Mandatory Reporter.”
I guess the implication is that idiots like us would just sit by and let pedophiles molest children in peace unless the authorities inform us that raping kids is wrong. We are probably supposed to read this document and exclaim, “Ah! Finally I know that something needs to be done about my neighbor brutalizing little Billy! Thank you, dear Big Brother and Sister, for letting me know that child rape is not a cool thing to do!”
The State of Illinois where I live and work is drowning in debt. Essential public services are being cut. Yet there is money enough to keep on the state payroll a bunch of idiot bureaucrats who come up with hugely important initiatives to inform college professors that child abuse is wrong.
I have a feeling we will soon have a bureaucrat placed in every bathroom on campus who well get us to sign paperwork confirming that we did wash our hands every time after using the facilities.
Seriously, people, I understand that the state has to find jobs for this bunch of brainless idiots and bureaucratic positions are the only place where they can practice their extreme idiocy freely, but does this have to be done at the expense of insulting a big group of employees who actually do important and useful work?
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