Dorm Dancin #5 • A VidShizzle From Cal

Some Chair Misery from Academic Charlotte Anne.

You know what they say about good deeds…

You do one and then someone else blows your tea-partying face off. Like many of you I have crappy colleagues who are lazy slackers and good colleagues who are hard working professionals. The other day, after a particularly unpleasant department meeting, my good colleagues (none of whom have tenure) beseeched me (good colleague with tenure) to please, dear Jeebus, talk to the chair about the egregious inequities in workload. You know the formula, the slackers don’t do their work, and because they suck, nobody asks them to do work, because it won’t get done and the hard workers get rewarded for their hard work with more work, plus the expectation that they will “pick up the slack” that the slackers leave behind.