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somehow in September they decided to cancel the EEP program once he started complaining The EEP program was not cancelled...Brain was simply removed from the p

somehow in September they decided to cancel the EEP program once he started complaining The EEP program was not cancelled...Brain was simply removed from the program. It is borderline gaslighting for him to claim that the EEP program was cancelled simply because he was no longer a part of it. If he had filed an unmerited ethical complaint like this at a UC school like Cal or UCLA, he'd have been terminated for cause without the option of retiring gracefully (this actually happened to a professor at Berkeley while I was there). Notably: it's been over a week since his death and none of his colleagues are defending him. There's no drama on campus from students despite the supposed injustice. The only people keeping this alive are a handful of people who liked his website. And that's because...there's more to the story than just the one-sided version of it people are parroting on the internet.

mrguyorama 2y ago
His response to everything is insane. "Hey Brain, we want to use this space for <Thing>" His response is to insist that they do not "need" the space, that "need" is a LIE, and that LIE requires an ethics inquiry! What the shit? He then does the exact same thing for the email about them not recommending students for his program. "ABET says we aren't good enough, and your program is part of that, so we are going to go in a different direction" and again his reaction is insane! "“Marshall - my colleague, my confidant, my advisor, my friend - you are over the line." He calls this retaliation! Imagine going to your boss's boss, and nitpicking every single word of their communication to you, and then when he says "Hey uh you're a little out of your lane here" doubling down! Now imagine believing it is unethical for your boss's boss to tell you that you are out of line! Imagine keeping your job after being such an unmitigated ass to an entire department and insisting you cannot possibly be wrong like human communication is some sort of logic system! Sure is funny how much context has been removed from that email too! Marshall Brain killed himself because he couldn't deal with perfectly valid college/educator administrative interaction! Poor guy must have lost his marbles.

mrguyorama 2y ago

His response to everything is insane. "Hey Brain, we want to use this space for <Thing>" His response is to insist that they do not "need" the space, that "need" is a LIE, and that LIE requires an ethics inquiry! What the shit? He then does the exact same thing for the email about them not recommending students for his program. "ABET says we aren't good enough, and your program is part of that, so we are going to go in a different direction" and again his reaction is insane! "“Marshall - my colleague, my confidant, my advisor, my friend - you are over the line." He calls this retaliation! Imagine going to your boss's boss, and nitpicking every single word of their communication to you, and then when he says "Hey uh you're a little out of your lane here" doubling down! Now imagine believing it is unethical for your boss's boss to tell you that you are out of line! Imagine keeping your job after being such an unmitigated ass to an entire department and insisting you cannot possibly be wrong like human communication is some sort of logic system! Sure is funny how much context has been removed from that email too! Marshall Brain killed himself because he couldn't deal with perfectly valid college/educator administrative interaction! Poor guy must have lost his marbles.