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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'd love to hear your views on the big donors you work with. You make it sound like everything is the profs' fault.[/quote]

No, some of them are jerks too.  But saying, to a potential donor who is also a parent, that you would be making so much more progress on your research if you didn't have to teach is just boneheaded.  I mean, really.  And I prep these boneheads, but they never listen.  And then they bitch to me when the gift doesn't come through.  Well, try not offending the donors as tip number one![/quote]Yeah, this person sounds like a moron.[/quote]

But she's a GENIUS!  A genius, I say.  Who doesn't need someone like me - who isn't even a PhD (egads!) - to help her.  To which I replied that she is welcome to try fundraising on her own from now on if she feels she would be more successful (she won't be).  My dean agrees. [b]She's the kind of person who would be fired if she wasn't protected by tenure.[/b][/quote]This may be true but tenure also protects a lot of the professors that you like and get along with.  I know several faculty members whose opinions would have made them huge targets but tenure protects them and allows them to continue working.  Consider AG Cuccinelli's attack on a UVA prof (now tenured at Penn State) for his research on climate change, for example.[/quote]

I know that, trust me.  Just saying the dead weight jerks should spend less time moaning about how they are underpaid and unappreciated and more time thanking their lucky stars that they have a job where they can treat people like crap and never be fired.  I just wish I could say as much to their faces, but alas, I can be fired.  Lucky for me though, I ultimately work for a dean who has my back and will support me in NOT helping people like her in the future.[/quote]Pp again.  My heart goes out to you, OP.  I remember people like that from back when I was in academia.  They look down their noses at the students who don't understand their lectures when it's their responsibility to find an effective way of communicating that works for the students.  So glad you have the support of your dean.  Just remember that that professor is probably miserable which is a kind of punishment of its own and you just go on helping the folks who are good to work with.  Everything you're saying makes sense to me now.  It just would have helped if you hadn't labeled your thread: "Professors - here is why you have a bad reputation at large" which makes it sound like you're condemning a whole group of people when the reality is your thread is more of a: "I can't believe I have to work with this self-entitled, snobbish asshole who is his own worst enemy" thread.

Good luck, OP.  Hope things get better![/quote]

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