All academic institutions screw their non-academic staff down as far as they can in all respects. I used to work for Otago University as a programmer/analyst, and I used Arpanet (pre-Internet Internet for those who don't know) to communicate with people doing similar work in varsities all over the shop. Discussions inevitably got around to employment terms and conditions. Allum same everywhere, I'm afraid. Poor money. Bad conditions. Benefits, hah!

The only consolation was that the senior students acting as tutors got screwed worse than us!

It's probably only in Zild that we've extended the concept to nailing the academic staff as well. Probably a reflection of our "egalitarian" background ...


The idiot also known as Capfka ...