I once said, on Twitter, while at university, that I wasn’t enjoying a particular class (we had a substitute lecturer for the day). I didn’t name the lecturer, or the subject.
SOMEHOW, the University PR department, which followed my Twitter account, found out what lecturer and subject I was referring to, sent him the tweets, and allowed him to send a very aggressive email telling me how “wrong” I was, and that if I didn’t like it, I should just “get out”…
That was at a semi-prestigious University. In Australia. In 2015. Because his “fee fees” were hurt by my anonymous, depersonalised criticism. That’s what we’re dealing with, here, in academia…
Academics are totally fucking nuts. The entitlement and hubris is insane. Like, holy shit…
And that’s only one of many, many such examples across two Universities, five campuses, two states and three cities… 😑
I once said, on Twitter, while at university, that I wasn’t enjoying a particular class (we had a substitute lecturer for the day). I didn’t name the lecturer, or the subject.
SOMEHOW, the University PR department, which followed my Twitter account, found out what lecturer and subject I was referring to, sent him the tweets, and allowed him to send a very aggressive email telling me how “wrong” I was, and that if I didn’t like it, I should just “get out”…
That was at a semi-prestigious University. In Australia. In 2015. Because his “fee fees” were hurt by my anonymous, depersonalised criticism. That’s what we’re dealing with, here, in academia…
Academics are totally fucking nuts. The entitlement and hubris is insane. Like, holy shit…
And that’s only one of many, many such examples across two Universities, five campuses, two states and three cities… 😑