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My point is that the bad ones fulfill the worst assumptions that the public has of professors because they are SO bitter, and it is blindingly obvious.  I am a fundraiser and I have to refute this stuff from alumni every day while I get treated as one of those evil "administrators.". It gets tiring having these people bitch about having no money when they are the most difficult and obnoxious people to work with.  The difficult ones and the most difficult departments get no money because they alienate donors. I've had alumni parents bitch about some of these people to me, not that it matters.  They are untouchable because of tenure.  So what happens?  The department loses money when that alumni parent pulls or withholds donations.  I work with tons of great profs, but the ones who are bad are truly horrid.

And to the PP who pointed out that they make less than other professions with similar levels of education.....so what?  It's not like that isn't a well known fact.  If that's not the life you want, get a JD or an MBA instead of a PhD in English. [/quote]

Aha ha ha. I get it now, you're in development for a university.

The rest is clear as mud, though. In some places it sounds like you're fundraising from the profs ("these people bitch about having no money"). But your real beef seems to be with "alumni parents" because you mention them twice ....  So reading between the lines, it sounds like some prof gave an alum's kid a bad grade yet and the snowflake's alumni parents stopped the spigot. Yes, we all love it when daddy and mommy get mad at the prof instead of at their underachieving kid. Yet it sounds like you're siding with the alum parents of the underachieving snowflake because, apparently, the bad grade makes your fundraising job harder. Do I have this right?  [/quote]

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