Money Not So Well Spent - Granite Grok

Money Not So Well Spent

Dr. Edward Larkin gave a pair of women at the Milford Market Basket More for their Dollar last November when he approached them in the Supermarket parking lot with his “franks and beans” exposed.   It turned out to be an unadvertised special, but one that New Hampshire taxpayers continue to pay for.   The UNH professor, placed on leave after the incident, is still on the University payroll, collecting $87,375 per year while we wait for the bureaucracy to remember how it is exactly that you fire a State university professor doing nothing on the taxpayer dole.

What I actually find almost as fascinating as that is why it took until September of 2010, a good ten months and almost $73,000.00 dollars in payroll after the 2009 autumn surprise to notify him that the university planned to terminate his employment?  What was left to the imagination?  What extenuating circumstances might they need to consider?   A grown man took his junk out for a nice November walk in a public parking lot then introduced it to some passers-by.  

Were they waiting for the results from the line up?

Was there a credible chance of a wardrobe malfunction? 

Perhaps it was an innocent but poorly timed manscaping inspection gone horribly wrong.

Or maybe he was planning on a career change and knew he could get a lengthy severance while he milked the bureaucracy for almost twice the average Granite State residents income while sitting at home making shadow puppets with the “little professor?”  It would certainly give him a leg up if he wanted to run for State Chairman of the New Hampshire Democrat party.

Whatever the deal is, it’s just another example of how inefficient government is, and demonstrates the layers and levels of waste they tolerate within their own system; the kind of waste that makes the cost of tuition go up while disturbed individuals disguised as professors collect administrative pay for introducing total strangers to Herr Johnson.

 

 

H/T-Union Leader

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