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It's sad but true in my experience. My thesis advisor makes this a sport, apparently. I learned this after I graduated. One friend explained that my advisor wou
by xhkkffbf 5y ago
It's sad but true in my experience. My thesis advisor makes this a sport, apparently. I learned this after I graduated. One friend explained that my advisor would often call up colleagues at other universities and tell them not to hire particular people. He's apparently known for this habit. It's one thing to provide a recommendation when requested. It's another to routinely campaign against others and provide anti-recommendations.
But he's thrived himself. He's got a swish appointment just outside of Boston.
- mistrial9 5y agoyes, I got one like this too.. and, he wants stock in the companies of his "students" .. which he self-invites
- raincom 5y agoDoes he do it for those who haven’t asked for his recommendation letter? Or he does it for those who asks for his recommendation letter?
- xhkkffbf 5y agoBoth. Of course the letters are full of bogus, positive statements that he can defend if ever caught. But he badmouths people left and right because he thinks that anti-recommendations are just as important as positive ones.
- raincom 5y agoWow, unbelievably vicious. Usually, a generic recommendation letter without any specifics is negative enough. Many professors don't want to write such recommendation letters.
- a9h74j 5y agoI once read that the academic social contract before the 1970s was that an advisor would not accept a graduate student unless they were sure they had a "place" for them lined up, i.e., in another institution. I don't know how that could have worked, but it speaks to the difference in social contract prior to when graduate students were treated as exploitable labor with no actual academic prospects.