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This is very very common. As long as professors publish, they can get away with a lot of things, bonus points of the students are indentured to their H1B. I've
by xiaolingxiao 6y ago
This is very very common. As long as professors publish, they can get away with a lot of things, bonus points of the students are indentured to their H1B. I've seen Ph.D students in their 30s, mother of children, cry in front of me because of the abusive and neglectful actions of their advisors. They essentially run their lab as a personal fiefdom, and HR is powerless in this situation. Sexual harrassment cases are moth-balled, meanwhile the school prints tons of material talking about gender-equality, etc.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoNot H1B. Some Education visa.
- chasd00 6y agoI've been on a number of conference calls where people (both male and female) break down in tears from pressure or bad coworkers. Tears aren't all that rare or a big deal.
- DanBC 6y agoWTF yes they are. Only an utterly dysfunctional corporate culture would tolerate putting people under that amount of stress. Ignoring "be a decent human being" for a moment, and only looking at the money (because this is one way to communicate with dysfunctional corps): companies have a duty of care to protect their staff from harm, and this includes mental distress. By not addressing the abuse the company is leaving itself open to costly legal action.
- belval 6y agoTo be clear, I 200% agree with you (if there is such a thing), but it is still a normal state of affairs in multiple fields. I never personally lived it, but a few people close to me worked in healthcare and that kind of "brings you to tear" workplace abuse is downright common. Demeaning comments and forced overtime are a weekly if not daily occurrence. Should they accept it? I guess not, but once it's normalized they partake as well and it doesn't change.
- pcstl 6y agoYou probably mean an F1 visa. H1Bs are for non-immigrant workers, F1s for non-immigrant students.