Hah, in some fields things are much worse. My wife was actually (seriously!) offered two postdoc positions in her field. One was unpaid (!) and the other was ev

Hah, in some fields things are much worse. My wife was actually (seriously!) offered two postdoc positions in her field. One was unpaid (!) and the other was even worse: the university wanted her to pay a fee for the honour of a postdoc position. Needless to say, she did not accept.