A thing I genuinely hate about conservativism is these people whose beliefs are ostensibly rooted in history & tradition fail to realize we already tried it their way when it comes to deregulation. We *started* with deregulation. The regulations came about in response to *deregulation not working*.
Gotta admit Minas Tirith got a *little* less shiny after I moved to New England and discovered the Joy of Walking Uphill 😅 (still pretty shiny though)
A friend gave me the Bonne Maman advent calendar and it's about to become my entire personality for December. Brace yourselves
but seriously I think my time and the accounts payable time added up to more than the $1.72 of tape dispensers I ordered
Ah, academia, where you have to write a Business Purpose documentation to buy an 86-cent tape dispenser
There it is, right on time: the student who didn't accurately report when they were available and now can't work their scheduled shifts 🤦♀️
This place just doesn't seem to understand that if management consistently treats labor badly and consistently makes us do more with less, year after year, then morale is going to decline year after year, until everyone, including overachievers like me, simply won't do more than the minimum.
It's actually very simple: faculty and grad TA working conditions are students' learning conditions. If Tufts cares about students, it must invest in teachers.
