I work with a tenured faculty member who is completely dead weight. Now I'm not one of those tenure-haters. But the dead weight is just impossible. Outside of brief book reviews and one well-received article, he hasn't published since 1994. 1994!!! He doesn't apply for funding for his grad students, so they come here and soak up as much funds as they can from the general pool but mostly just go really broke.
And last Spring, he got in trouble for playing video games on his blackberry during faculty meetings. The Chair had a word with him. But the following week he did it while listening to qualifying exam defenses. He leaves the sound on. In one case, he didn't ask a single question to his grad student. Talk about dead weight!
It's almost like he wants to flaunt that they were stupid enough to give him tenure. And this is a R1 institution.
Wish there were some middle ground between tenure and adjuncting.
If there was that middle ground, the f&$kin' colleges would push most of the tenured people into that limbo and things would be far worse. You just need to yell at these people louder, piss in their coffee, do whatever it takes to get them productive again.
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Looking forward to a cartoon about the switch-a-roo students, too.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I can't find the post about the switch-a-roo students anymore! Was it removed by the author?
ReplyDeleteI work with a tenured faculty member who is completely dead weight. Now I'm not one of those tenure-haters. But the dead weight is just impossible. Outside of brief book reviews and one well-received article, he hasn't published since 1994. 1994!!! He doesn't apply for funding for his grad students, so they come here and soak up as much funds as they can from the general pool but mostly just go really broke.
ReplyDeleteAnd last Spring, he got in trouble for playing video games on his blackberry during faculty meetings. The Chair had a word with him. But the following week he did it while listening to qualifying exam defenses. He leaves the sound on. In one case, he didn't ask a single question to his grad student. Talk about dead weight!
It's almost like he wants to flaunt that they were stupid enough to give him tenure. And this is a R1 institution.
Wish there were some middle ground between tenure and adjuncting.
If there was that middle ground, the f&$kin' colleges would push most of the tenured people into that limbo and things would be far worse. You just need to yell at these people louder, piss in their coffee, do whatever it takes to get them productive again.
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