Totally unexpected development: my employer is responding to a financial crisis by implementing new bureaucratic measures that not only waste a ton of faculty time but serve to increase, rather than decrease, administrative staffing needs.
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[UW SOM admin] Oh, they started adding plenty of time-wasting red tape to admin finance processing to address the crisis before it rolled up to faculty.
We tried to run around to intercept and shield our faculty from the attention drain, but on some things we've been told point-blank to stop.
The worst thing about this is the way that our already dreadfully overburdened staff are going to be asked to do substantially more—amidst a hiring freeze.
Nothing is certain, except death and taxes and increasing faculty service expectations and report requirements for things the university administration will never look at in the name of increasing enrollment and saving money.
Oh. This summarizes all this. That's how it works.
I remember sending on slack questions to our PM (a pretty competent person, but too lazy maybe). No answer. But then we spent many minutes discussing all this orally, during the "15 minutes standup". My solution was: running a summarizing bot.
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We tried to run around to intercept and shield our faculty from the attention drain, but on some things we've been told point-blank to stop.
The worst thing about this is the way that our already dreadfully overburdened staff are going to be asked to do substantially more—amidst a hiring freeze.
We really should be increasing funding for education: K thru higher ed.
How do we address the disinformation crises? education
We should also create seats for students trying to leave other states.
Just like 2008.
Just like 2020.
1. Writing reports for a boss who can't be bothered to look up the information themselves even though they also have access to it.
2. Mandatory meetings where I'm constantly asked about all the information that was contained in the report they didn't read.
I remember sending on slack questions to our PM (a pretty competent person, but too lazy maybe). No answer. But then we spent many minutes discussing all this orally, during the "15 minutes standup". My solution was: running a summarizing bot.