Rubber room

A teacher gets in trouble in New York City. Whether its valid/fair or not, the teacher is told to go to a place and wait until their case is heard.

They can wait for months, even years before anyone will talk to them about their case. They get their salary so it would sound like a mini-vacation, right? People have gone nuts waiting and the place has called the rubber room.

Today Mayor Bloomberg announced he's closing the rubber room.

(Ironically, I first heard the rubber room story from This American Life the same weekend that I waited for Susan to fire me. I thought then, "A rubber room would be preferable to working for her.")