When I first worked on committee X as a regular committee member 7 years ago, I couldn’t understand why the committee chair loved me so much. He kept showering me with exuberant praise that I felt was undeserved and kept telling my departmental Chair how amazing I was.
It’s only when I started chairing committee X that I figured out why I’d made such a huge impression back in 2009. I did everything I was asked, showed up on time, didn’t lose paperwork, and my grandmothers did not succumb to horrible misfortunes right when the paperwork was due.
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The reward for this, of course, is being asked to do more committee work and service. They’ll say we can’t ask Prof xxxx or Prof yyyy to do this because s/he won’t do a good job, or s/he won’t do it on time, etc.
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