What you always get is people who try to present themselves as tough guys who expect others to be tough but live in a world of fragile snowflakes But it's a lie, the toughness they demand from others is just accommodation for their own fragility
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Why couldn't he have done it over Skype or something like that?
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Speaking as someone who recently left a 15 year career in academia: It's because being a fuckweasel with no respect for others only works if you are also ignorant about most labor saving tech, and both are practically required of tenure track faculty.
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9 flights of steps, a Person recovering from a knee operation and a dick boss. "Pain" is irrelevant here. What is at stake is lasting re-injury from placing a recovering knee under stress that even a healthy individual in "dress shoes" feels to be a sacrifice. Enough said.
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Purely from a self-interest standpoint, it seems kind of stupid to make enemies like that pre-tenure.
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Combining this classic AITA entitlement with the tempest-in-a-teapot squabbling of academia elevates this to high satire. In commedia dell'arte, this guy is named Dottore. The poor student may be a Zanni now, but revenge will come.
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I hate it, and the instant you step onto a college campus you trip over five professors exactly like this.
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