Even though I’m on sabbatical, I’m still helping the sorority I curate with their paperwork, budgets, etc. I don’t have to do it but I like them and don’t mind doing it, especially since they understand that I will have to do everything from home until September.
The women in the sorority work very hard to be as self-sufficient as possible, and I have no complaints about them. But the campus bureaucracy is driving us all nuts. Today, for instance, we’ve had to redo the entire bunch of paperwork for an event the sorority is organizing because Student Services cut our budget by $4 (FOUR) dollars. I would maybe even somewhat understand the need to redo the whole thing if we were getting extra $4. But I see no reason to waste the time of 5 people (one of whom is a tenured professor) to redo the paperwork over the four bucks we are not getting.
Often, it seems like Student Services are buggering around with these senseless subtractions and additions of four bucks to create semblance of working. And a bunch of busy, hard-working people is humoring them.
Clarissa's Blog 
There are few things worse than the ways in which university bureaucracies respond to tiny discrepancies. Giant fuck-ups and huge wastes of money can be hand-waved away, but a $4 discrepancy can require that all budget forms be redone and mission statements be rewritten.
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