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University and assumptions

As almost everyone knows, a university can recruit only if its current staff costs are below 90% of the Ordinary Financing Fund, which will vary (downwards) each year.

For example, the University of Trieste could not hire anybody until 2017 (I think) if he had chosen to reject the postponement of retirement the teaching staff.

But we are sure that all staff is really weighing on the budget of the university unnecessarily? In eight years of personal attendance at the university I would say NO.

Some examples, drawn only from my old department and its vicinity. I will not name to avoid problems, but if you want to know who the numbers will most likely ask me in private and I'll tell you.

Abbreviations: T = technical staff, administrative staff A = D = teacher (including researchers)

1. T - sitting all day with his feet on the table doing crossword puzzles, comes out of his room only to feed the cats.
2. T - sitting all day in front of the computer or the phone, task ... I am not clear, but it's everybody's friend and seems to have a good social life at university.
3. T - I discovered its existence only a few months, she lives in an underground university, Trieste, speaks with a strong southern accent and is the custodian of a precious asset: the only vacuum cleaner in the department. That can not be used because it has no bags, and ask for it in his eyes is equivalent to asking to be able to mate with her daughter. I tried to borrow a compressor to clean the dirt from the server works: impossible, the answer was that each "group" must buy her things.
4. T - very nice but not very productive. Never works on his initiative, but when asked something is available on average.
5. T - it seems to be very lazy. As a direct experience I can say that once the Sun has sent orders to Dell, or that we lost in waiting for a week in order not actually left because he had not checked the outcome of fax communication mandate.
6. A - no more. It is not a regret for anyone.
7. A - seems to have taken many fascinating features of A6, we take time to make a final decision, maybe it detoxifies.
8. A - tells one anecdote: I had found a way to buy printers with low cost (200 € 800 € against the normal price), but to do it was to be bought by another department. We went (I, a professor of the old DEEI and one of another department) to speak with A8 to know how to do it formally, and this person, peeling his apple indefatigable, has responded with a terse "But you know what I have to work do ?"...
9. D - I do not know which side has, but they say that he writes good books.
10. D - has retired, but will still receive a contribution of € 30k to do "research." In my laboratory we were convinced he was dead, I'm curious to see how they will bring in pennies (which is equivalent two years' salary for a graduate student)

Then there are an infinite number of positive examples, not carry them because they are not discussed. The fact remains that, always humble opinion, I see many more positive examples in D and A than in T.

In fact, I can say that T I can think of only two ...

followed by another post here: bribery within the tax departments, namely the world of "outsourcing."