The Papal Conclave
Just returned from another excruciatingly tedious committee meeting. I serve on a policy and curriculum committee that is currently charged with developing a new curriculum for a proposed new program. Easy, huh? You get to build the thing from scratch...so, it should be like, anything you ever wanted, put it on the table. Let's see how we can make it happen. Open season. World's your oyster.Of course, that's not how it works. The committee consists of:
a) Three faculty members: one who is new and got elected to the committee because no one else wanted to be on it, and he thought it was some kind of honour; one who can only think about how this will affect her one particular course and has no concept of what other courses make up an MBA program; and a guy who is so dead against the development of this new program that he spends the entire meeting bitching about it instead of offering any productive suggestions.
b) Two student members: one who is pissed that we're considering a program that might make the one she's completing obsolete, and one who barely speaks English and really has no idea what's going on.
c) My direct boss, who has just now decided we should probably meet every week instead of every other week to drive this thing off the cliff even faster.
d) Me, who mostly ducks while the bile shoots through the air and occasionally tries to corral everyone back to the job at hand while watching the grey hair on my boss cover ever greater real estate on his head.
One of the faculty members - the third, bitching one - has a distant relative from his hometown in Belgium who is a Roman Catholic cardinal and has been brought up as a possible successor for the papacy. This gave me an idea. I am going to lock all these people into a room with decreasing rations for a week and not let them out until I see the white smoke come out of the chimney - and a curriculum slid under the door.
I can't wait until my deskjob days are behind me. Can't you tell?
posted by Maquinna @ 5:04 p.m.
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