From experience, again, no, these people don’t care about “morals”. “Morals are relative”, after all!
They care about money, and securing their own position/reputation/tenure.
This doesn’t necessarily go for, say, tutors, but pretty much every lecturer I’ve met has been like that, and the Admin staff/deans/degree coordinators are some of the worst people I have had to work under…
I’m really very jaded about this shit.
One thing I will say, though: we like to blame the academics themselves, here, but I feel that we tend to underestimate the massive power and influence that career admin staff have…
They ruined my life (long story). I’m not entirely sure I will ever fully recover from that. And every time I have dealt with one since, they’ve behaved with the same utter arrogance and sheer contempt…
Two Unis (three, if we’re including work). Three states. Like, 5 campuses. Three/Four cities…
Again, that's reflective of how this managerial coup tends to work.
The face of the organisation is the very last thing to get replaced. By the time the face is showing cracks the entire rest of the organisation has been lost to corruption already.
From experience, again, no, these people don’t care about “morals”. “Morals are relative”, after all!
They care about money, and securing their own position/reputation/tenure.
This doesn’t necessarily go for, say, tutors, but pretty much every lecturer I’ve met has been like that, and the Admin staff/deans/degree coordinators are some of the worst people I have had to work under…
I’m really very jaded about this shit.
One thing I will say, though: we like to blame the academics themselves, here, but I feel that we tend to underestimate the massive power and influence that career admin staff have…
They ruined my life (long story). I’m not entirely sure I will ever fully recover from that. And every time I have dealt with one since, they’ve behaved with the same utter arrogance and sheer contempt…
Two Unis (three, if we’re including work). Three states. Like, 5 campuses. Three/Four cities…
Same shit.
Again, that's reflective of how this managerial coup tends to work.
The face of the organisation is the very last thing to get replaced. By the time the face is showing cracks the entire rest of the organisation has been lost to corruption already.