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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can’t you just do a mediocre job and not get fired? You have tenure.[/quote]
No because then they make me teach more classes every term. I could do a worse job with those but there is a limit to how little you can do. Plus I hate teaching. I only took the job for the research. I would rather quit and do almost anything else than teach.  I was hired because I am I am an excellent researcher, writer , analyst, programmer, physicist, chemist and project manager and understand how to get things done.  Those would be highly useful elsewhere but not if I done away classroom teaching 40 hours a week and doing grading for another 20. Tenure isn’t what it used to be, friends. Even at the “elite” school where I work. [/quote]

PP tenured professor who you conveniently have not responded to. I have never heard of an "elite" school without TAs for grading, so now this post is extra fishy [/quote]

We have TAs just not enough. And I have to grade final reports myself. And I also have to have 2 hours of office hours a week, so I am counting that. And a 1 hour TA meeting to organize the TAs. And spend 2-3 hrs a week reading the emails pleading for grade changes from students and handling them. And, lately, handling the crisis situations (medical and mental) of students. Yes I refer them to the professionals at the school but there is always something. I also have a phd student in crisis and one stuck in another country because of lockdowns and visa stuff. I was kind of simply lumping all this together for simplicity. I am sorry if you thought I was a troll. I don’t know why anyone would troll this post, but social media expert I am not. [/quote]

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