It’s time for the vocal minority of tree-hugging, narrowminded naysayers who live in fantasy land to put up or shut up. Come up with a cure for cancer or step back and let Fox Chase Cancer Center do its job unfettered.
The editorial is stupid, wrong-headed, badly written, possibly teratogenic, etc, but as a former employee of FCCC I will say that the ongoing attempts to block the Center’s expansion are baffling, to say the least.
The place DESPERATELY needs more space - I spent almost a month working, I swear to God, at an end table in someone else’s office because there wasn’t a single available desk anywhere - and the part of the park they’re talking about expanding into - the PART of it, not the whole thing, you lying Burholme Committee sacks of shit - the PART of it they want to expand onto currently has on it…
Oh, wait. Nothing. Not a soccer field, not a nature trail. Nothing. NOTHING MOTHERFUCKERS. Just trees, and not even very nice ones at that.
The demand for space at Fox Chase is ridiculous. The placeis bursting at the seams, and if you’re FCCC and you’re trying to hire a postdoc or a researcher or, hell, anyone and you tell them that yes, we’d love to have you work here, but do you mind working at a table in the break room until we can find you a desk, which may be never? That makes it hard to attract quality people. Two people turned down offers in my department not because we couldn’t find them offices or even cubes, but we couldn’t find them anyhting other than desks in rooms that already had more people than the room was rated for.
The argument against the expansion seems to boil down to “ZOMG ALL TREES ARE SACRED!” Guess what, dickface? People are more important.
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The editorial is stupid, wrong-headed, badly written, possibly teratogenic, etc, but as a former employee of FCCC I will say that the ongoing attempts to block the Center’s expansion are baffling, to say the least.
The place DESPERATELY needs more space - I spent almost a month working, I swear to God, at an end table in someone else’s office because there wasn’t a single available desk anywhere - and the part of the park they’re talking about expanding into - the PART of it, not the whole thing, you lying Burholme Committee sacks of shit - the PART of it they want to expand onto currently has on it…
Oh, wait. Nothing. Not a soccer field, not a nature trail. Nothing. NOTHING MOTHERFUCKERS. Just trees, and not even very nice ones at that.
The demand for space at Fox Chase is ridiculous. The placeis bursting at the seams, and if you’re FCCC and you’re trying to hire a postdoc or a researcher or, hell, anyone and you tell them that yes, we’d love to have you work here, but do you mind working at a table in the break room until we can find you a desk, which may be never? That makes it hard to attract quality people. Two people turned down offers in my department not because we couldn’t find them offices or even cubes, but we couldn’t find them anyhting other than desks in rooms that already had more people than the room was rated for.
The argument against the expansion seems to boil down to “ZOMG ALL TREES ARE SACRED!” Guess what, dickface? People are more important.