New Jersey public school administrators spent $12,000 on a table

[iamwhatiseem]

My God...these people need to be brought up in front of the entire country on national TV and explain this shit. Can you believe this?? $12,000 for a conference table when the NJ school system has major budgetary problems??

New Jersey college blasted over 219G conference table Fox News

Pretty nice table. And a college can waste whatever it likes. Not like this was a public grade school or anything.

It is a PUBLIC university Delta, same thing.

 

[Iceweasel]

The school said it obtained three quotes for the conference center, the first from a company in its town of Union, and was told the table would cost $1 million. That price was revised to $386,000, the school said, but a company in China, Shanghai Rongma Office Furniture, agreed to produce the center for $151,000.

...built to their specs. The assholes aren't exactly launching and maintaining deep space probes.

 

[Roadrunner]

I carry Amex black, so I can.

Here's one for $2,610.00, but it only seats eight.

X Dining Table - Hand Rubbed Black - FURNITURE - Tables - Dining Tables

They'll probably order one for the break room.

Just another attempt from faux to bash public education to promote corporate America education.

Oh, STFU, silly child, and get a fucking job.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

More than you can afford but it was made in China, they could have found a fairly local carpenter to put something together for much less.

They probably want to raise property taxes to cover budget shortfalls as well. For the children.

I carry Amex black, so I can.

Here's one for $2,610.00, but it only seats eight.

X Dining Table - Hand Rubbed Black - FURNITURE - Tables - Dining Tables

LOL sure you do sonny

 

[hipeter924]

Coupla things -- on the one hand it's disingenuous to call it "a table" in view of this from a sub-link in the article:

>> The table is oak with a cherry veneer and seats 23. It has a motorized, two-tiered glass turntable and an illuminated map of the world in the centerr, and it can connect up to 60 units for conferencing. It also has built-in gooseneck and wireless microphones, Bose conference speakers and a variety of other features. <<​

-- including an entire A/V system and possibly buit-in computers and matching chairs from the looks of it:

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-- which is still overkill, certainly for a university, but really doesn't fit the description, quote, "a table".

And on the other hand, from the same sublink:

>> The university didn’t put the project out to bid, and it picked a company in Shanghai to strengthen its ties with the Chinese government. Kean recently opened a branch campus in China. Kean officials claim they didn’t need to get other price quotes because the “acquisition of artifacts or other items of unique intrinsic, artistic or historic character” don’t require bidding. We don’t buy it. Neither does Cryan, who is asking the state Attorney General’s Office to review the waivers Kean used to buy the table without soliciting bids. <<​

IOW apparently the university was not buying a table but a bribe.

One thing we can all agree on; that's a pretty bitchin table!

Its an ugly color that doesn't really match the room.

They should have picked a neutral color for the table (or black or silver), to go with the windows. Possibly might work if you had black chairs or white ones, but it would still look ugly.

The university obviously sucks at interior design, but good to know that university administrators are wasting all their students money on tables though.