In academia it’s undeniably true. I had to learn to keep mum regarding my insights into how to publish more, keep running the lab when the budget is halved, make documents accessibility-compliant within minutes and without having to attend workshops, and so on. Nobody wants to know. Or they do but they want to be able to complain about life even more. So I shut up and make compassionate noises when people go on and on about problems that have a clear solution.
I often think that academia exists as a place where people compete in the art of complaining.
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