Resource Abuse

A professor just sent out an email to the entire law school informing us that his daughter's school was having a "Penny Harvest" and encouraging us to bring our pennies to his office to "contribute to the well-being of NYC."

Can I say, "I don't give two *****!!"?

Seriously. There are dozens of kids who are involved in hundreds of worthy activities. All of these activities have fundraisers. And I want to hear about NONE of them.

This just exhibits the supreme arrogance of law professors. They are so profoundly convinced of their own importance that they think they can spam every email account in the law school with pleas that we bring pennies to their assistant so that their daughter can be the fundraising super-star of her class.

Oh yeah, and I'd like to get a tuition refund for the portion of that secretary's time that is being wasted collecting pennies for this dude's daughter.

Two notes:
1. Starting your email with "Please excuse the institution-wide intrusion" does not solve the problem, and is a rather insincere apology since you are intruding anyway.

2. In the interest of full disclosure, I applied for a summer research assistant position with this professor following my first year of law school. He rejected me in favor of some undergrad who was a family friend.