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This comment from the journal editor is particularly telling: "Certainly people, say in businness [sic], behave more brutally than in academia." I don't know
by WkndTriathlete 9y ago
This comment from the journal editor is particularly telling:
"Certainly people, say in businness [sic], behave more brutally than in academia."
I don't know what businesses and academics the editor knows, but my observations across business and academics have repeatedly been than professors behave far more brutally than businesspeople do.
- tome 9y agoBecause the stakes are so low.
- leemailll 9y agoIt isn't in academia one usually has a year to land another job after been told fired?
- arethuza 9y agoNever heard of that one in the UK - even heard of people who weren't even told they were fired, they just didn't get paid and were expected to take the hint. Imagine my horror one month when the university I worked for "forgot" to pay me one month - due to an administrative error apparently....
- chriskanan 9y agoThis is true if you are in a tenure track job, and denied tenure. That's not true for postdocs, in general. If the sponsor pulled funding from the project that funded my postdoc, it would be challenging to keep him.
- hprotagonist 9y agoSayre's Law: "academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small."
- blablabla123 9y agoIn business, no matter how ruthless or cold the people are, you can complain or even yell at the people - been there. I guess this is not an option in academics. Fwiw my mother died during my thesis. I didn't get a 6 week extension period - my professor said that's probably not gonna work.