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Nope, and I'm not tellin'.
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Shit! How did you guess?
'Cos that's where the muffins wind up when they fall off the plate
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'Cos that's where the muffins wind up when they fall off the plate
I have yet to let that happen.
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Ugh, here I am awake at 5 am. Recently, although there were difficulties in my new life (boiler breaking down, car needing its MOT therefore either very expensive work done or even more expensive new car have to be bought), I had started to sleep better and enjoy life. I was working very hard and felt under pressure (I don't quite understand how that can happen on the tiny contracts I'm on but I'm sure it's all my fault really ). Then this situation blew up at work.
I suddenly felt exhausted. I couldn't keep going in the day. I didn't want to look at my work email. I just lay down in the afternoon and fell asleep. So I woke up this morning at 5 am At least I can suddenly see clearly how the work problems cause me this bother, not other things in my life.
My new line manager has proved to be a disappointingly useless lazy b!tch. Comments in emails from her include "I know you think I am totally incompetent" and "I don't care" about which of us delivers some teaching, when we have had to get together and email her to show there is a problem with the way she set it up. Ie - you sort it out, I'm far too busy doing VIP stuff to actually manage you.
A few weeks ago the other (basturd - except now he has suddenly discovered I am a really good teacher and thinks the sun shines out of my a***) line manager told me Line Manager 1 is going on research leave. I wrote to her and she was very upset and said she didn't want to announce it yet as she wanted to sort out her cover properly first. I therefore said I would not talk about it to the others.
I wrote a couple of times as the date for her study leave approached asking, What gives? and also whether there would be an opportunity for us proletariat lecturers to apply to deliver the cover. (Answer Not Likely, prole - get back behind the barricades.) I asked at least for transparency in the appointment process.
Suddenly the other day, just as I returned from a very long tiring journey to help a student, I had a text from a colleague to say she had sent a confusing email to announce she was leaving pronto - but not to me. I was very angry and fired off an email asking What the Hell ...? I got a reply saying: "Oh dear me, sorry, I am such a bad girl for leaving you off the list. Yes I am off on study leave now, tralala. Somebody else has been appointed to cover while they sort out proper cover."
It's completely unclear how it has come about that the lecturer who been appointed to cover while they are actually putting in place proper cover has been appointed to this. (She will not do any actual work of course - just collect a fat salary for making us all get on with it ourselves.)
I have been mulling this over for a day or so. At first I thought: Fuck it, I am just going to let it go. As a union official once said to me, unfortunately it's not illegal to manage very badly in a way that sabotages delivery of the work. Now I have decided to email the top head manager and complain. I did it before and although it was very stressful and unpleasant, it did result in changes in the way we were all managed. Things became a lot better. I'm going to leave it for a day and try to just get on with my normal work. Well, now I'm going to try to go back to bed! or just watch the rugby and do some ironing. Then tomorrow, if I still feel it's the best idea, I'm going to get on my email.
). Then this situation blew up at work. I suddenly felt exhausted. I couldn't keep going in the day. I didn't want to look at my work email. I just lay down in the afternoon and fell asleep. So I woke up this morning at 5 am
At least I can suddenly see clearly how the work problems cause me this bother, not other things in my life. My new line manager has proved to be a disappointingly useless lazy b!tch. Comments in emails from her include "I know you think I am totally incompetent" and "I don't care" about which of us delivers some teaching, when we have had to get together and email her to show there is a problem with the way she set it up. Ie - you sort it out, I'm far too busy doing VIP stuff to actually manage you.
A few weeks ago the other (basturd - except now he has suddenly discovered I am a really good teacher and thinks the sun shines out of my a***) line manager told me Line Manager 1 is going on research leave. I wrote to her and she was very upset and said she didn't want to announce it yet as she wanted to sort out her cover properly first. I therefore said I would not talk about it to the others.
I wrote a couple of times as the date for her study leave approached asking, What gives? and also whether there would be an opportunity for us proletariat lecturers to apply to deliver the cover. (Answer Not Likely, prole - get back behind the barricades.) I asked at least for transparency in the appointment process.
Suddenly the other day, just as I returned from a very long tiring journey to help a student, I had a text from a colleague to say she had sent a confusing email to announce she was leaving pronto - but not to me. I was very angry and fired off an email asking What the Hell ...? I got a reply saying: "Oh dear me, sorry, I am such a bad girl for leaving you off the list. Yes I am off on study leave now, tralala. Somebody else has been appointed to cover while they sort out proper cover."
It's completely unclear how it has come about that the lecturer who been appointed to cover while they are actually putting in place proper cover has been appointed to this. (She will not do any actual work of course - just collect a fat salary for making us all get on with it ourselves.)
I have been mulling this over for a day or so. At first I thought: Fuck it, I am just going to let it go. As a union official once said to me, unfortunately it's not illegal to manage very badly in a way that sabotages delivery of the work. Now I have decided to email the top head manager and complain. I did it before and although it was very stressful and unpleasant, it did result in changes in the way we were all managed. Things became a lot better. I'm going to leave it for a day and try to just get on with my normal work. Well, now I'm going to try to go back to bed! or just watch the rugby and do some ironing. Then tomorrow, if I still feel it's the best idea, I'm going to get on my email.
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It makes me wonder if Really Senior Management actually knows what's going on.
Sympathy, my dear.
Sympathy, my dear.
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It makes me wonder if Really Senior Management actually knows what's going on.
Sympathy, my dear.
Naoko's Really Senior Management sees her role and the work she and her colleagues do as a distraction from the real business of fighting for academic status and research funding. They're in it to boost their egos, not to manage.
Even the middle management sees 'research' as sexier than teaching.
Competence in their roles? Why would they need that?
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News:
Lori the Hosier is improving in health.
Lori the Hosier is improving in health.
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I've just received my first vote on my newly posted poem.
A 3.
And a second vote. Another 3.
Are they trying to tell me something?
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And a second vote. Another 3.
Are they trying to tell me something?
Anything is possible round here!
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Yep, I definitely got a defective brain. Either that, or I need an upgrade.
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Yep, I definitely got a defective brain. Either that, or I need an upgrade.
You CAN get an upgrade; if the office is open. . .
oggbashan
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I've just received my first vote on my newly posted poem.
A 3.
And a second vote. Another 3.
Are they trying to tell me something?
Laurel is telling me something. That poem now has a Green E.
And two positive comments admittedly from the same person. Thank you, Angeline.
It climbed to a massive 3.75 rating, and dropped within minutes to 3.33.
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Damn. Why wasn't I keeping a journal then? I would love to be able to accurately say what I was thinking.
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Of course we were (and are).
The advertisers (sponsors) would not have it any other way!
Of course we were (and are).
The advertisers (sponsors) would not have it any other way!
Damnit.
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Damnit.
Amen to that
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