Chapter 1477 Crazy Pleasures In The Dark:>Ep15

• "Yeah, about that... The thing is, he can't read the journals you publish in, and he knows it. THAT hurts like a knife in the guts."
• In academia budget games are played with silly, made-up bendable rules. In order to pay me a salary I would consider, the Provost, with her Dad's approval, had to bend some of the silly rules well beyond the point where anyone thought they could be bent.
• Each college is alloted a budget based on "positions." There is a formula for that. Each position is allocated so many dollars. The big sin was that my Dean sacrificed a faculty position slot, one of a half dozen he would never fill, so he could pay me more than twice the usual baseline salary for a Liberal Arts position. In effect, I was so special I counted as two people for salary. It was a simple and terrible message about my value relative to hoi polloi.