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Post by shades on Oct 18, 2016 19:00:56 GMT -5
tomorrow; my college professors will go on a faculty strike against the state who are trying to implement a new contract (after going over a year on expired contract) that will reduce college professors pay, make more time in the classroom but also add graduate students teaching, reduce their health care, and other sort of dumb things. (Ideally, though TECHNICALLY there is four more hours to complete negotiations, but they had all summer to attempt it so how can they do it in three days?)
of course this means i will have zero class, as there will be none of my teachers on the campus to participate in class time.
despite the lovely and likely five day weekend i will have and ideally the two tests on thursday i am not ready for, and the fun aspect of me and my psychology advisor sitting on the curb and people watching and passing the drinks. the kind students who will pass out cookies and water for the professors. as prospecting as it will be; it's going to suck.
because it means my state system are trying to say that my professors, who all or most have doctorates (or in the case of my fresh out of grad school professor and his soon to be doctorate) and went to school for over six to eight years to achieve that and decide to work at the cheapest (tuition-wise) state school there is and yet they aren't as qualified (alongside about twelve-or-so schools) to be given good wages, decent health care, and such necessities they and their families need to survive.
so you know. it's going to be quite the experience.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2016 19:31:14 GMT -5
That's outright depressing. You'd think the aspect of a long weekend would be pleasant, but . . . Not in these circumstances.
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Post by shades on Oct 18, 2016 21:06:55 GMT -5
It's pretty much guaranteed. Though some people are going over the final offer.
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