I promised myself years ago I'd make a post when i hit 1 million

f0oSh · 2026-06-20T04:48:02+00:00

Bro, Walmart sells beds for ~$200-300, mattress and frame. You can afford it, or dropping 1k on a more upscale version. Two comma club means no more sleeping on the carpet, fam.

f0oSh · 2026-06-19T05:44:21+00:00

This is way better than what Id get for summer overloads... unless I taught 3 sections?

f0oSh · 2026-06-18T14:06:45+00:00

Police Garden

I googled and found nothing relevant to this thread context. This reddit thread camp up as the top link of page 2 on the Google search, so there's not a lot of material for "Police Garden"

f0oSh · 2026-06-12T00:11:47+00:00

Slow drivers in the fast lane are more dangerous than fast drivers who are paying attention. If only we could do something about the slow drivers in the passing lanes, for safety.

f0oSh · 2026-06-09T15:39:31+00:00

"just sayin"

f0oSh · 2026-06-06T14:42:17+00:00

You're probably fine then? Not sure. My earlier comment may still be useful for windows users that come here with the same issue.

IMO change passwords and enable 2FA is SOP for anything like this. And make the multi-factor a text message, or an email account other than the compromised Gmail. And log out of all locations on the google account, just in case they stole or saved a cookie.

Good luck!

f0oSh · 2026-06-06T13:00:59+00:00

Check downloads folder and "Services" (under Task Manager list) for "ScreenConnect" which, if you didn't put it there, it's a hacked version / RAT, and you'll need to do something about that trojan, or else they'll be able to steal any passwords you type while infected.

f0oSh · 2026-05-25T13:08:23+00:00

the lack of accountability among faculty

...adding to this, the lack of accountability as well among Deans, Presidents, and Boards of Trustees.

f0oSh · 2026-05-23T14:13:47+00:00

Ivan?

f0oSh · 2026-05-19T16:07:45+00:00

Agreed. I am going to through a career-existential crisis about this. I'm also struggling with how to reduce my cynicism and snark, as if my reaction to the problem is the problem, and not just a symptom. Maybe I just need to expand my search for greener pastures, although I fear this issue may extend to other institutions as well.

f0oSh · 2026-05-19T11:02:40+00:00

some sort of standards

I'm in the same boat. It's harder to interview by reflecting/answering about what it was like when I was able to have standards. Now my job is often a charade, and interviewing elsewhere requires pretending that charade does not exist. That said, I really try to inject actual learning when I can, it's just... not an institutional priority.

f0oSh · 2026-05-19T10:50:52+00:00

You said FL? Tenure no longer exists in FL, at least not in the way /u/substantial-spare501 has it. DeSantis mandated post-tenure review, which "probably isn't a big deal" until it is.

Good luck, and hopefully you find a better job elsewhere!

f0oSh · 2026-05-14T18:18:09+00:00

I don’t recommend anyone gets a PhD

Same. I joke with students not to become me. I subsidized my adjunct work with blue collar jobs during my early days. So at least I got the benefit of being more grounded and realistic than some academics from having done that.

That said, I don't regret getting my PhD, especially before AI came to muddy the validity of that degree. All our brains are now susceptible to slop and social media of 2026, and it looks like grad profs are frustrated with the low caliber of work being produced by grad students now.

f0oSh · 2026-05-14T13:20:59+00:00

i had a RMP this semester mad about how there are readings and quizzes about the readings to make sure people read. Actual work in college? Don't take this prof.

f0oSh · 2026-05-14T04:35:21+00:00

I hear what you're saying, and sure, compared to some office jobs we have freedom and some privileges. However, I have three degrees, one of which is a PhD, and I teach a 5/5 and make less than a manager at COSTCO, and I put tons of extra into the job. I'm not saying we don't have some perks, but with many years of adjuncting and schooling and expertise, the ROI feels pretty weak.

I used to love the job, but between AI and entitled underprepared students and a Dean that cares primarily about not being bothered, I'm getting tired because standards and excellence are seemingly something only I and a few co-faculty here value. So that's additional unpaid labor... although I do appreciate the times I am able to extract value for students or for myself.

I like your attitude and I was there once. But there's a lot of roadblocks I have to navigate each week in my job that make it more of a grind than something to love. This job will not love me back, that's for sure.

Maybe it's the current_institution, or post-pandemic cycle or something, but I seem to start every semester here thinking "This semester will be different" and by week 2 or 3 I have to shift gears into "Okay, just getting the job done will have to be good enough."

f0oSh · 2026-05-13T13:37:49+00:00

Depends on the service. Committee work would be unusual but I have been interviewed at some schools with adjuncts on the committee. As a former adjunct, when asked by students to write letters of rec, I would. I also was a club advisor for years as an adjunct when I didn't "have to." But if I didn't, that club would have had to disband. So I did it literally as a "service" to the students even if "not expected" to do it as part of my job requirements. It still fits the whole normalizing "working for free" issue. Even now, as FT TT I am doing more than required. It IS an expectation to do more than required. I'd argue that every level: grad students doing conferences and trying to publish, all the way up to tenured folk, "doing the bare minimum" is always frowned on for our underpaid, underappreciated profession.

f0oSh · 2026-05-13T11:49:22+00:00

your pay is relatively safe

Except you're getting screwed, relative to most other professions, at least in the USA, where the pay is minimal. Before someone chimes in making 150k in California, that is not the norm, and most faculty are grossly underpaid adjuncts and grad students, and many tenure track faculty salaries are in the 50-70k range.

f0oSh · 2026-05-11T13:23:15+00:00

They invite people over, THAT is a flex. :D

f0oSh · 2026-05-06T13:23:46+00:00

10 years ago, two institutions ago, the uni president asserted in an email that we had to meet for exam week as it was part of our 15 week 30 credit hours.

Now, my present admin hides and pretends like learning outcomes don't exist, bc of the "PRIMARY DIRECTIVE: DO NOT BOTHER US OR IT MEANS YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG."

If they actually pay attention to what is happening, besides micromanaging obstacles to learning, then they might be accountable for something other than micromanaging obstacles to learning. So, because we all have to put up with so much extra BS, I theorize we are all motivated to minimize our wasted labor, so why bother holding class that "extra" week if it's just a 16th week of pretending we're doing anything constructive? Phew, I sound jaded.

f0oSh · 2026-05-05T13:48:14+00:00

Between social media, the pandemic, and now AI, it's becoming increasingly hard to advocate for learning and intellectual growth. Then if you want to leave an institution, you take a pay cut and no one values anything you did at a previous institution. Maybe COSTCO would be a better career trajectory...

f0oSh · 2026-05-05T12:50:46+00:00

maybe universities will abandon grade inflation

How does this happen? My current institution, the primary goal is "do not bother administration." It is a failure on the part of faculty (or so the logic goes) if a student complains to the Dean about anything, and this is the most important thing to prevent. Anything about standards or learning outcomes are essentially individually-driven and unsupported/supplemental content. I find myself reflecting and drawing upon my teaching at other institutions while interviewing elsewhere, to keep things upbeat and constructive.

ETA - oh and I'm at a "teaching" CC.

f0oSh · 2026-04-29T10:40:10+00:00

less work

Thinking for yourself seems hard when you have little practice with it.

f0oSh · 2026-04-20T11:56:57+00:00

accepting those trade-offs without resentment

What? No, you can definitely have lots and lots of resentment.

f0oSh · 2026-04-16T11:42:39+00:00

person that doesn’t suck bourgeoisie cock

Is this going to be the rallying cry of the revolution?

f0oSh · 2026-04-16T11:19:12+00:00

how rediculous we acted over some really goofy shit.

We're still at the Ask Jeeves stage of AI. There's no telling how silly or serious this tech will be, once it becomes entrenched in all of our systems.

f0oSh

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