Strikes

On Tuesday the 22nd and Thursday the 24th of March the UCU is having a general strike of lecturers in 47 universities to protest against...something that doesn't concern me in the slightest. However, the fact that they are striking is affecting my education as my lecturer is sodding off for the day. I pay £20.56 for every contact hour at uni (according to some rough, Andy-maths), so I would quite like that money back seeing as I am not getting the service that I paid for.

I do not, as a rule, agree with striking, I see it as akin to blackmail and think that that should only be done when people have done just plain stupid things (if you get caught having an affair and allow pictures to be taken, for example, you deserve it). But the lecturers are in no situation like this, they're just being whiny bitches.

And so, to the lecturers I say this: Shut up, do your job and stop stealing my bloody money. If you can't afford to survive off the pay that you are getting you shouldn't have gone into academia, should you?