Canada is very very small and other tales from Spork U.

[lolaraincoat]

So I was talking with a friend who teaches in another department at The University with the Name That Rhymes with Spork. She said, "I'm worried about this new Associate Dean

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[la_sonnambula]

Oh wow, the world really can be too small sometimes.

I'm a few months into my first office job and one of the things I've learned is that more paperwork is rarely the solution. Though in yours case it appears that the added red tape is working for someone.

LOL at the "canadiana" tag.

I'm sorry you're still ill. :(

[amelia_eve]

And no note was attached explaining why. If our department secretary didn't have a sister working in the dean's office we would never have known.

This has an uncanny resemblance to our new electronic accounting system. If there is something wrong with an invoice and you reject it, instead of sending a message to the vendor, it just cancels the whole thing out of the system. You have to print out a hard copy of the electronic invoice (because electronic accounting does not allow you to save or print to a PDF, so it ends up creating new paper files) to return to the original vendor BEFORE you reject it. I'm so glad computers are making our lives easier.

As for the copyright stuff, it's only going to get worse before it gets better. I am now spending about a third of my work time on securing permissions lately. Even for reuse of materials we have already published.