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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a doctoral student working on a graduate assistantship at a university and there is absolutely no way my supervisors would ask me or any other grad assistant to wash dishes for them. Your cousin needs to take this up with HR. Tell him to bring the email and any other documentation with him to the HR meeting. Absolutely ridiculous that his boss would make this request.[/quote]

Yes, you're absolutely right if this is an assistantship but the way it's written makes it sounds like it's not part of a funding package, just a random on campus job.[/quote]

As an employment lawyer with a background in academia, I'd say that there's being technically in the right, and there's being a little politic because you've got bigger fish to fry and want to keep on your boss's good side. The guy could have won this little battle but lost the war -- boss sees him as a pain, won't ever give a good recommendation and might even subtly sabotage him with water cooler chat to other faculty in the department. If it became a chronic problem, then think about taking steps, but for a one-off request, the cousin misplayed the situation. [/quote]

Agreed, I wouldn't have handled the situation the way the cousin did. That said, once you open the door to washing the dishes, count on more inappropriate tasks coming your way. And "subtly sabotage" with "water cooler chat"?! Please. That's par for the course in academia. You don't need a dishwashing dispute to trigger that sort of behavior.[/quote]

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