One thing that is really frustrating to me right now, and it’s something that I have discussed, is this idea that PhD students who supply so much labour to universities are just not kept in the loop about plans for teaching and reopening.
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I mean are there even Zoom GSU meetings happening? I have no idea.
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Took a break because I was eating dinner. But to continue this thread, a few staff have been helpful with information! But again, I had to ask.
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But we (PhDs) have been made to feel like our voices and input don’t matter, by the
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And we hear a lot of rumours, which doesn’t instill confidence. Each department seems to be handling this differently too, which isn’t great.
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But the college’s insistence at having a majority of instruction being F2F despite no room for this, and it would mean putting PhDs at risk as we make up a large majority of those who would be doing that instruction
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And we don’t have a say in how this is happening? That is ass backwards nonsense.
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I 100% believe that when TCD reopens it will be a disaster and campus will shut down in a few weeks, and they’ll blame the students for the cases and not their own stubbornness in these absurd reopening plans.
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Once again, pointing out that unless social distancing isn’t possible, face visors are being highly encouraged for those who are HOH.
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Face visors are not masks. If an asymptomatic TA comes in, talks loud and then another TA comes in with a face visor? They may well get sick.
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How about sanitation? Who’s responsible for it? The TAs and staff? That means they are liable then if things aren’t cleaned properly.
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I should ALSO note that none of us are getting paid more, even though we all have to put it more labour with figuring out how to do online stuff (still ?????? for my dept), or presumably cleaning?
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Also I guess some students are just refusing to wear masks in the library, without medical reason.
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Which leads me to my next question: what are people supposed to do if a student refuses to wear a mask? How is mask compliance being maintained? What’s to stop students from just taking them off?
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Like, this is super worrying for so many reasons and it feels like the ones making the decisions do not care, and don’t want to listen.
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