Obscene waste of money

I'm still on the grad student email list. the other day, I got a request for people to staff the engineering drop in center. This is essentially a room for people to go and study and ask a tutor person questions about their course, kindof like a tutorial/lab session for everyone. I had a couple friends do it when I was in fourth year, and in general they just did their own homework since noone was coming by to ask questions, except for a few weeks around exam times. Anyways, this email described the position as being for 16 weeks, each person would be around for 4 hours per week. The pay for this position is $2365... Do some quick calculations, that works out to $37/hour!!! Holy crap! When I was in 4th year it was $25/hour and we thought it was a stupidly high amount of money. I mean, someone can sit around on their ass doing nothing for most of the time, and be earning 150% of what I'm making with my MSc in engineering working at a real job.

This is so stupid I'm even considering writing a letter about it! Dear Mr. Schulich, do you know where your $25 million donation is going? Dear Alumni Society, stop asking me for money, you clearly have money to burn.