I was going to say, we do it here! But I also work for an institutional nonprofit. I had to pay the design department to put some logos on a piece of paper.

Hurrah for EnZed: [link]

I exercised this morning, and then walked the little-less-than-a-mile to the train to get to work (two armed, bullet proof vest wearing transit police on the platform, post Boston). Then you all posted about food and I ate the main course of my lunch. Oops.

I am wondering- in places other than Universities/Colleges, do departments charge other departments for things?

Yes. There are legal reasons behind it, but it's still kind of dumb.

What is really dumb here is that we try to save money on those things. So we have a design department to put logos on a piece of paper, and they would charge us. But I can put logos on a piece of paper, so I don't use them! Or, we have a training department for computer classes, but they charge more than an outside vendor, so we use the outside vendor, which is stupid because then the university is losing that money. Drives me nutty!

So we have a design department to put logos on a piece of paper, and they would charge us. But I can put logos on a piece of paper, so I don't use them!

I wish I hadn't used them, in that case!

in places other than Universities/Colleges, do departments charge other departments for things?

I do so in my NGO (non-governmental organization). We have a number of different project contracts, and I charge my time among several of them and to "overhead". Each project needs a little bit of website or eLearning support, but none of them need or can afford an employee dedicated to those roles. So they each get a bit of me. It keeps things interesting.

Jesse - is this good enough for GoodStuffHappenedToday? [link]

There's a place on the lower east side that does French onion soup dumplings. Best fusion cuisine EVER. (They're served in an escargot plate with the cheese melted over the top, and you pick them up with a fondue fork. The dough is thicker than what you'd get in a traditional Shanghai soup dumpling so they're not as awkward to eat.)

Those sound AMAZING

In other news, I want noodles for lunch. However I'm more likely to make my splurge of the day a mani/pedi.

I guess I'm going to have to try out the dumpling place around the corner now.

There's a place on the lower east side that does French onion soup dumplings

Oh! I've been there! I was in NYC for a long weekend several years ago, and I went there with Nutty because our friend's sister is the pastry chef there. Social Cafe? Something like that?

ION, I had a nice bitching session & dinner last night with my predecessor in this job, and she admitted that she too hated My Nemesis, and we shared horror stories about her for a while. It was very nice to catch up and get sympathy from someone who understands perfectly how difficult it is to get anything done here, and how dysfunctional the management is.

I think, however, in the absence of a firm offer in hand (I haven't heard anything from anyone since last week), I'm going to take advantage of the opportunity to stay a little longer. I can always give notice and go anyway, but sticking around for another month is (sigh) the sensible thing to do.

And next week I'm going to have an open chat with a fairly senior guy back east about how the program is being run. We'll see if it makes any difference, although it probably won't.