If I have to redo the sabbatical application one more time, I will not need a sabbatical leave any longer. I will need a psychiatric leave.
During the time that it takes me to complete the form and have everybody sign it, the bureaucrats adopt an amended form, and I have to start all over again. This has been going on since September. Today I sprinted from my office to the Chair’s to the committee members’ to the Dean’s in hopes that if I run really fast, a new form will not have time to be adopted. I’m not kidding. I actually ran.
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Ah, I can’t decide if it’s good to hear that other universities are like this (I’m not alone!) or bad (other people are also suffering from insane form changes!).
I send virtual empathy, regardless!
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Thank you. There must be something wrong with the system in which it’s easier to create a research project than to fill out a 2 – page form containing basic information about myself, right?
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If they didn’t do this, most of them wouldn’t have jobs. The poor souls just fight for keeping their employment, because they doesn’t have any marketable skills. They make their victims desperately run and run and run around, so they can prove their own importance.
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Very true. And the worst part is that it’s impossible to convince other academics even just to question these practices. They start looking like terrified bunnies and that depresses me.
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Or telling me off, because it’s “just a form, stop making a fuss”
So depressing!
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I hope you made it in time?
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I don’t know. There is a possibility that I will hear yet again that I have to redo it.
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Sounds like Markoff Chaney may have paid a visit to your institution.
for explanation (and all ~will~ be explained in detail):
https://web.archive.org/web/20120501180524/http://www.rawilsonfans.com/downloads/sct.htm
ctrl-F (search page) on following string:
THE HIDDEN VARIABLE
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Oh, I forgot, after that chapter, there’s the one titled
SPOCK? SPOCK? SPOCK?
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