Every day around lunchtime, this is the scene on the East edge of my campus; employees from all over campus have driven golf carts to lunch at one of the several restaurants adjacent to the campus. It is a pain for them, I am sure, that they have to get out of the motorized conveyances and shuffle the rest of the way across the street on their own two feet.
It is a small thing, I know. Yet all day, every day, I see people zooming around this little campus (and it is little—at least the classroom and administrative building area of it) on golf carts and Gators and what-not. The housing office. Admissions. The print shop. Housekeeping. Athletics. Computer services. The campus cops…I think even the key guy has one. Every office, it seems like, has a golf cart or something similar, and they appear to be constantly in use.
We are told, repeatedly, that money is tight, that we are in a period of financial crisis and need to make sacrifices. Yet people ride their little golf carts to lunch—to save themselves the time and effort of a ten minute walking round-trip. Seems that if Those That Make Decisions were serious about saving money, they would cut glaringly obvious costs like this.
One of many reasons I’m pretty sure they’re not serious.
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