Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Interesting discovery at a recent academic conference:

In a post-conference casual beers-and-chat session, it turned out that the one (now tenured) conference organizer wrote up a complaint and submitted it to her Ph.D.-granting institution about a professor there who pressured at least one advisee into an inappropriate work situation, since they wanted there to be a paper trail of it.

It seems to me that these complaints must be getting more common; there's less social tolerance overall for abuses like that, and since jobs are less certain than ever, although some people might shy away from that kind of thing even more than previously, others are like, "What do I really have to lose?", and go ahead and put into writing the secrets that everyone knows.

It seems also that that professor had expected their also-in-academia spouse to get the job, whereas they were the one that somehow found traction, and so maybe that's why they went ahead and did that.

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