something made me think of the private college i used to work in .......
there was something just not right with the vastu of the college .....it used to attract and retain horrid profs ...... the good ones left the fastest ...no one stayed beyond two to three years ......
when i joined this college in june 2007 ...i was a visiting faculty and i used to be amazed, at how poorly the visiting faculty were treated at times ..... i would always wonder why the conditions were so warped, as the college was dependent on visiting faculty to a very large extent .... in six months i decided to become a full time faculty....
once i became a full time faculty i had my own work station with an L shaped desk and drawers underneath ..... a computer with internet connectivity and access to a printer (which had a very weird mind of its own ... lol) .... i decided that, since i knew what the visiting faculty go through ...i will be nice to them .....
every time a new person joined or a visiting faculty needed help or just a place to keep their stuff, i would oblige or help...as the case may be ..... however, if someone new joined ....it used to amaze me, as to how rudely.... some of the full time faculty would behave towards a new person ...... i would gently nudge them towards the people and the way the system worked .... in the end i would tell them ...... see i am persona non grata in this organisation, coz i have been fighting with the management for quite some time about changing systems, that exist ....that are detrimental to the growth of a prof ... at the same time ..i would also tell them, who the management pets were and suggest they be in their good books.....
after all the help they would get from me ..... a reminder that i belong to a category that is anti management .....the new ones who joined, would gravitate towards the management pets ...... except for two ladies who continued to talk to me, despite my warning them about my status in the organisation ...invariably i would smile when the new ones would show their true colours .....all it took was a minimum of 10 days.... sometimes even less .....to know how a new faculty would behave .....
99% of the time... new people would gravitate towards the management stooges... even though they had endured rude arrogant behaviour from those women ..... and i would always think ....wow such practical people these are ......they all knew how to go after butter in life ....pun intended !!!
there was something just not right with the vastu of the college .....it used to attract and retain horrid profs ...... the good ones left the fastest ...no one stayed beyond two to three years ......
when i joined this college in june 2007 ...i was a visiting faculty and i used to be amazed, at how poorly the visiting faculty were treated at times ..... i would always wonder why the conditions were so warped, as the college was dependent on visiting faculty to a very large extent .... in six months i decided to become a full time faculty....
once i became a full time faculty i had my own work station with an L shaped desk and drawers underneath ..... a computer with internet connectivity and access to a printer (which had a very weird mind of its own ... lol) .... i decided that, since i knew what the visiting faculty go through ...i will be nice to them .....
every time a new person joined or a visiting faculty needed help or just a place to keep their stuff, i would oblige or help...as the case may be ..... however, if someone new joined ....it used to amaze me, as to how rudely.... some of the full time faculty would behave towards a new person ...... i would gently nudge them towards the people and the way the system worked .... in the end i would tell them ...... see i am persona non grata in this organisation, coz i have been fighting with the management for quite some time about changing systems, that exist ....that are detrimental to the growth of a prof ... at the same time ..i would also tell them, who the management pets were and suggest they be in their good books.....
after all the help they would get from me ..... a reminder that i belong to a category that is anti management .....the new ones who joined, would gravitate towards the management pets ...... except for two ladies who continued to talk to me, despite my warning them about my status in the organisation ...invariably i would smile when the new ones would show their true colours .....all it took was a minimum of 10 days.... sometimes even less .....to know how a new faculty would behave .....
99% of the time... new people would gravitate towards the management stooges... even though they had endured rude arrogant behaviour from those women ..... and i would always think ....wow such practical people these are ......they all knew how to go after butter in life ....pun intended !!!
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