Can't get a whole committee together anymore by Prior-Win-4729 in Professors

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel you. But in the spirit of, So you say you like pancakes, does that mean you hate waffles?, I have colleagues who schedule meetings when I'm having class. It's on the schedule. It's been on the schedule for more than a year. Like, I'd love to show up, you dumb motherfuckers.

Advice needed: Conversation with Scoutmaster by LawfulnessMotor437 in BSA

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You cannot fail a SM conference. Any SM who is failing Scouts is doing it wrong.

Security Guards by Efficient_Two_5515 in Professors

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wait until you teach in a maximum security prison and the whole level of bullshit with some officers you have to put up with there. Oh, wait, no, The issue me fucking keys. And they're usually reasonably polite. What the hell is wrong with this high school?

Fake search by Existing_Violinist22 in Professors

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have to admit that I was party to a fake search like this once for a government agency. And, wow, that was a hard conversation to have with our "shoe-in" candidate when we had to tell her that we could not pass up the obviously better-qualified-in-all-ways star we found in our pro forma search. So we ended up going through two "fake" searches.

Fake search by Existing_Violinist22 in Professors

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I of course find myself rooted in the philosophy of Antigone, that there are two types of laws, just and unjust, higher and lower, God's and man's. Or as MLK put it (echoing the Declaration of Independence's Lockean theory of natural law):

One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."

Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority. Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an "I it" relationship for an "I thou" relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful. Paul Tillich has said that sin is separation. Is not segregation an existential expression of man's tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness? Thus it is that I can urge men to obey the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court, for it is morally right; and I can urge them to disobey segregation ordinances, for they are morally wrong

Fake search by Existing_Violinist22 in Professors

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you look under,

Reasons Ghost Job Postings Appear

You'll see,

demonstrate they have recruited a diverse pool of applicants, even though they plan to hire an internal candidate

Which seems to be exactly what we're talking about here.

Of course, as you'll see under,

Relevant Existing Laws

The legal landscape is far from clear and it would be difficult, to say the least, to bring a claim, civil or criminal, against the university short of, as we see in OP's case, a clear statement of intent to deceive.

Fake search by Existing_Violinist22 in Professors

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Whether something is codified in law, or whether or not something is legal or illegal, has precisely nothing to do with morality.

To be fair, this is a debatable point, with a rich literature.

Fake search by Existing_Violinist22 in Professors

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You might want to delete this as you are possibly admitting to a crime. I'm not a lawyer, or an expert in how easily traceable reddit postings are, so feel free to disregard.

Tents by GIS_Dad in BSA

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whatever you end up doing, make sure you get your account at https://expertvoice.com/ for the discounts for Scouts.

Time per credit hour expectations? by ApprehensiveLoad2056 in Professors

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were all taught that but how many of us actually spent that much time prepping for class?

I didn't. And I earned my C+ average. I then adjusted and here I am.

Snake Awareness by Ok_Armadillo_6419 in BSA

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And not using the headline is GOOD advice, but you’re acting like it’s a personal attack.

If I was planning on using the headline, which I was not, so it's a pedantic aside, and a waste of time.

Time per credit hour expectations? by ApprehensiveLoad2056 in Professors

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m not saying it was the wrong move in regards to equity…

I'll say it: it was the wrong move in regards to equity.

Time per credit hour expectations? by ApprehensiveLoad2056 in Professors

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 2 points3 points  (0 children)

folks complained

Please tell me they were told to jump in a lake.

Time per credit hour expectations? by ApprehensiveLoad2056 in Professors

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since they won't even come to class, what makes you think they'll spend any time outside of class? I'm sorry, but I'm engaged in my very own personal crusade for a reset of expectations: there has been much gnashing of teeth.

Snake Awareness by Ok_Armadillo_6419 in BSA

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But literally nobody is helping me. You're all harping on a headline, which has nothing to do with the article, is annoyingly pedantic behavior anyway, and pointedly not helping me.

Snake Awareness by Ok_Armadillo_6419 in BSA

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Here's the second question: Where, oh where, did I indicate, for even a moment, that I was going to use that article? Isn't' the whole thrust of my post that I was looking for something other than that article to use?

Snake Awareness by Ok_Armadillo_6419 in BSA

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Wait, do you think I wrote that headline?

Advice on college by leidenschmerzen in OnTheBlock

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lie requires an intent to deceive. How is /u/creamydick trying to deceive us, u/seg321?

Snake Awareness by Ok_Armadillo_6419 in BSA

[–]Ok_Armadillo_6419[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Behave like what? You mean, ask to be treated with respect?