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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @09:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2020, @09:00AM (#1000102)

    Depends on your Chair/Director. Thankfully both of mine are wonderful at my current position. Bend over backwards to protect us from the bullshit raining down from above. In return, we help them by boosting their numbers and not creating unnecessary problems. It is amazing how much more work we get done without having to deal with that additional headache as well as how much smoother it is to deal with the administration when the academic leadership does more than the minimum and doesn't pawn their work onto others.

    Now at the place I was at before, the chair would probably be the first to stab you in the back. And that is on top of the lack of tenure, budget squeezes, impossible mandates, ruthless competition, and dealing with the five layers of bureaucracy, vocal donors, vocal taxpayers, the students, and their helicopters at the same time for seemingly every minor decision.