Load sixteen tons, and what do you get?

If I had medical benefits of my own -- and if I made enough money of my own -- I wouldn't have to think about this crap. But I don't, and I don't, and so I do.

It's apparently up the office of the president (of the University) to determine whether I get the really nice bundle or the not so nice bundle. The nice fellow's 5-year anniversary with the University was September first, adn he died on August nineteenth. However, he had over three hundred hours of sick pay accumulated, and if they add that it, which I think they would do if he had retired instead of dying, I'm in clover. Otherwise, I'm in something far less pleasant.

He fed the University for thirty-four years. The University contracted out the kitchens for most of that time, though, and they apparently didn't translate his service to "University Service Credit" when they took the kitchens over.

This is not even why he was on strike last month: it's just another random manifestation of unfairness.