There I was, hoping for yet another Oxford-based comedy on R4 involving the Devil, my fellow-countrytmen and women from America, and the VC, but no. Alas.
Nobody seems to have pointed out to our glorious academic mother, or perhaps I should say our enclosed garden, that building new buildings at the expense of personnel is the inevitable precursor of a major business failure, a little-known further Law laid down by the prescient Mr. Parkinson...
Not *that* Andy Hamilton, then
Date: 2009-10-08 08:39 am (UTC)Nobody seems to have pointed out to our glorious academic mother, or perhaps I should say our enclosed garden, that building new buildings at the expense of personnel is the inevitable precursor of a major business failure, a little-known further Law laid down by the prescient Mr. Parkinson...