Colleague: How are you keeping it together in the face of the horrible and disturbing events at the department?
Clarissa: By not knowing about their existence.
Colleague: Let me tell you what’s going on!
Clarissa: Nah. . . I’m fine the way I am, really.
I’m not even curious. I just want to keep as far away from the drama as possible.
Excellent decision. Once you get tenure, it will much more difficult to stay out of the petty faculty fights. For now, the less you know, the better
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I’m just trying to pretend that I’m not even there. 🙂 Let people forget that I exist.
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This is so healthy. You are obviously much more experienced than I am.
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McGill training, baby. 🙂 🙂
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Very wise.
In order to gather enough information to make an informed decision about that sort of in-fighting, you would have to spend several months in full-time research, to the detriment of your actual work. And when you had finally tracked down all the evidence, and heard every point of view, and were ready to assign guilt and blame, it would turn out to be a storm in a tea cup, and the tea has been drunk, and another storm in the fresh cup of tea is brewing.
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” it would turn out to be a storm in a tea cup, and the tea has been drunk, and another storm in the fresh cup of tea is brewing”
– That’s EXACTLY how it works. 🙂
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I prefer to have some idea of what’s going on (not that I want to take sides – uggh) but for me the best defense is having some idea of what the landscape is like (the better not to step in a pothole or cowpie if I may mix metaphors)..
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They don’t have blogs, so must find ways to to get their dose of drama in RL. 🙂
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Goooooood point. 🙂 🙂
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