Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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*adjusts chair under Brooklyn Bridge*
Me, a senior lecturer: how do I double authenticate my log in. What’s that weird smell. Is that loud creaking noise a sign death is imminent
Try maggots cascading out of the ceiling - forced us to abandon the "old" Annenberg building on the USC campus for a while
Yes, it was gross beyond words.
“I see you’re familiar with the pay scale for professors,“I said
Adjuncts are truly the coolies of academe
I conclude that the quality of hte building is way way way less imp then the quality of the people
YMMV
This totally makes academics’ training and expertise feel valued by the university industrial complex. Where’s the dean and AI committee work?
• babysitting (oops! teaching/advising) entitled snowflakes who've never had to accept responsibility for ANYTHING
• doing clerical work the department secretary once did (before they were eliminated)
• living on flat-lined salaries and lost benefits
• navigating academy politics.
Professor Emeritus since 2012 after 40 years in the cage.
livin that CC life, y'all
#academicsky
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048733317300422
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
I still vacuum my own office ofc, staff don't do that, don't be silly.
As of 2 weeks ago, I still saw the fencing and work trucks around that building.
this was also not great for ceiling tiles, esp on the top floor
Possum poo was falling through the cracks
"The egos in academia are so large because the stakes are so small."
Yes another of his wrong conclusions.
https://theappalachianonline.com/breaking-wey-hall-closed-for-classes-after-reported-safety-concerns/
I was jealous.
In theory I work at one of the best universities in the world. In practice one of the rooms I work in is frequently 15 degrees and I have to surround myself with space heaters and a colleague works somewhere where sewage sometimes just leaks into the room....