librarianmer.bsky.social
😷 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 Community college librarian in Portland, OR. Solidarity, unions, slow librarianship, spoonie, autoimmune, still masking, disability justice. Blogging at Information Wants to be Free since 2004. Subscribe: http://meredithfarkas.substack.com
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It was in an email from the Orbis Cascade Alliance ED (who is on the Advisory Board) to all of the members on the announce list. Not sure that's publicly available.
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Yes, if "partner" means, we give them money and they treat us like they own us. A partnership would suggest give and take. They are very, very good at taking our money and not giving a shit about our needs. The giving part needs work.
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I'm so sorry. I hope you can find something better very soon!!!
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I'm so sorry you've been there too. I've expected things like this in other workplaces, but it was truly a surprise here because I earnestly believed we were a team that cared about each other's well-being. I've always supported my colleagues in doing what they needed to to take care of themselves.
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That sucks Danielle! It seems like in every workplace there is this unspoken assumption that some people will always be asked to take on more. That is, until they totally burn out or quit.
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It was two sections of a writing class, not something specialized, so any librarian could have taught it. Next time, I will just take a sick day and let everyone else figure it out. I was under the impression that we were a team and I won't make the mistake of ever believing that again.
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On another note, I don't usually have any problem wearing a mask and the ones I have are so comfortable and light, but teaching two classes with a migraine, while extremely nauseated, with a mask on was nightmarish.
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Maybe this is an unreasonable expectation for me to have? Maybe people think that because I'm basically in pain all the time from my autoimmune disease that a migraine is no big deal? I got into my car after teaching two classes while feeling like death and cried b/c I felt invisible.
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I've taught last minute for sick people. If I knew a colleague was sick & I couldn't teach for them, I would at least have checked in on them and asked how they were and if I could get them anything. Multiple other colleagues were there who knew I had a migraine and no one asked me if I was ok.
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As much as I find his hoots charming, he'd better stay the fuck away from the resident bunny in our yard or my son will absolutely lose his mind.
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It is too late as it's in all of the virtual marketing we sent out and physical fliers all over four campuses. It's also for our Spanish-speaking students, which would make going to an intermediate page with ads even more confusing. I'll just pay the $10 for a month to keep it ad-free.
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Obviously they did it with so little notice that they knew they could wring money out of people who relied on it for mission-critical stuff, but it's not a long-term solution and that's of course the private equity way. They'll wring what $ they can and let it die. Enshittification all the way down.
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The current model seems to be make something free, sell (often to private equity), & move on to the next scheme. I'm certainly cognizant of the cost given that I host my own blog & RSS reader, but pulling the rug out from under users with so little notice ensures users will abandon their product.
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Will this extort $10 out of me to make sure our students don't end up on some random page seeing some random ad? Yes. Will I cancel after that month, never use their product again, and curse their name? Also yes. Fuck off bitly!
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My son is 15, so I could be honest about it (he said they were horrible too), but he totally threw his father under the bus and blamed him for the whole thing. 🙃
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I've been wondering about this too. I don't want to have to pay for a platform when I'm giving my words away for free, but I'd like to find an alternative. Let me know what you find out!
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I teach a session to biology students focused on data literacy where I have them critique existing graphs (and create data visualizations of their own) and this is a great one to add to my slides!
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That neighborhood was lovely, walkable to food, stores, and the beach, and reasonably affordable, but since we left, most of the strip malls, homes, and apartment complexes were replaced with unaffordable slick luxury high-rises and it lost its run-down, old Florida charm. Very depressing.