http://morganonscience.com/politics-of-science/when-facilities-and-administration-means-neither/ Helping You Get Recognized For The Great Science That You Do Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:26:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://morganonscience.com/politics-of-science/when-facilities-and-administration-means-neither/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Brian Risk Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:29:09 +0000 http://morganonscience.com/?p=310#comment-330 I suggest you incorporate a printer as a legal entity. Individual printing agreements can then be drawn up between the printer an each grant. Non-grant-related print jobs could fall under a "pro bono" clause in the printer's incorporation charter. I suggest you incorporate a printer as a legal entity. Individual printing agreements can then be drawn up between the printer an each grant. Non-grant-related print jobs could fall under a “pro bono” clause in the printer’s incorporation charter.

]]> http://morganonscience.com/politics-of-science/when-facilities-and-administration-means-neither/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Daniel Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:55:47 +0000 http://morganonscience.com/?p=310#comment-328 I completely agree. I'm at a DOE lab and it's the same story. Some time ago one of the big managers made a big point about how unethical it was to use the printers (free or not) for private use, like printing pictures of your family (which of course, is true). The same day I was invited to sit on a review committee that would require about four weeks of time from each of us(!)I asked how we would pay for this. (You have to understand that all scientists are on "soft" [grant] money all the time.) The answer came back that we were supposed to charge our grants. (Only managers get hard salary money; the higher the manager, more hard salary s/he gets.) Lecture employees about the ethics of a few dollars of printing, then instruct them to bilk a funding agency (whoever it would happen to be) for thousands.... I completely agree. I’m at a DOE lab and it’s the same story. Some time ago one of the big managers made a big point about how unethical it was to use the printers (free or not) for private use, like printing pictures of your family (which of course, is true). The same day I was invited to sit on a review committee that would require about four weeks of time from each of us(!)I asked how we would pay for this. (You have to understand that all scientists are on “soft” [grant] money all the time.) The answer came back that we were supposed to charge our grants. (Only managers get hard salary money; the higher the manager, more hard salary s/he gets.) Lecture employees about the ethics of a few dollars of printing, then instruct them to bilk a funding agency (whoever it would happen to be) for thousands….

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