A small update on Big Government Rauner, the Republican governor of the state of Illinois. Rauner, as you might remember, refuses to sign the state’s budget. At the same time, the number of insane and ridiculous regulations the state imposes on our university (and every other institution) has mushroomed during his short tenure.
Today, for instance, yet another mandatory training seminar was imposed on us. We are supposed to watch a training video that teaches us to use passwords to access our email accounts. We’ve been using these passwords for as long as we have been working at our university, but the Governor decided that it’s crucial to waste time and money teaching us to do what we already do every day.
The seminar is followed with a mandatory survey that allows a fresh flock of bureaucrats to generate paperwork as to how many people have taken the seminar and who still needs to be badgered into taking it.
Can anybody explain to me how creating a bureaucratic structure to teach people with PhDs to use their email accounts can be justified in a broke state? Especially given that to access the training seminar people have to enter their email accounts. Meaning that the training is entirely superfluous.
In the meanwhile, a crowd of wide-eyed fanatics cheer the fellow who keeps introducing these bizarre and unhinged governmental regulations as a proponent of. . . a small government.
This is Alice in Wonderland type of absurdity.
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