Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Just Wanna See His Face

The head of the English program called a three-hour meeting of all the teachers. "We have to decide if we want to continue with the new executive program," he said. The teachers met and everyone agreed to tell the university administration that the program should be cancelled. Two days later and one day before the all-university faculty meeting the English program head called another meeting. He said he wasn't sure what had been decided at the last meeting. The program director and his teachers got together again and everyone agreed that the new program should be cancelled. The next day at the all-faculty meeting the English program director reported to the university president and secretary general that there was no question but that the new program should continue and that the English program was happy to be involved. The head of the language programs, the boss of the English program director, took a large marker from her purse and wrote "IDIOT" on the back of a page from the previous meeting's minutes. She added an arrow and held the paper up for everyone to see, the arrow pointing at the English program director, who sat and grinned at the management like a dog challenged by persimmons.

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