Timeline for My Department head is very condescending - anything I can do about it apart from leaving the new job?
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| Oct 3, 2018 at 20:32 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 17:58 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | I don't see anything "explicit" about mentioning the head's gender other than pretty normal pronouns. While I prefer "they/them" it's not like they wrote "My department head (a woman) ..." | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 17:52 | answer | added | colin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 2, 2018 at 10:15 | comment | added | rath | @AntonMenshov if the question is OK, why do you need the genders changed? Related: You can always edit the question yourself if you think it'll make it better. | |
| Apr 14, 2018 at 18:49 | comment | added | scrappedcola | @MadJack Imagination is for creative writing, not when asking advice such as this. It's a different matter if OP has gone to HR without success or if OP feels it's even more detrimental than if OP has just completely ignored that route. If this were the US I would say your magic words to HR are "Hostile Work Environment". If all other resources are followed up as useless then it's time to cut your losses and run. | |
| Apr 14, 2018 at 16:34 | comment | added | PandaPants | is the dept. head a prof or advisor of the disruptive student? My impression is that heads are usually too busy with administrative duties to personally intervene in any one student's affair, unless they are directly associated with the student (such as being the advisor), but perhaps UG institution is different? | |
| S Apr 14, 2018 at 11:42 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 14, 2018 at 3:54 | answer | added | Anonymous Physicist | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 14, 2018 at 3:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/984999593149595649 | ||
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| Apr 14, 2018 at 0:17 | comment | added | Dawn | Is there anything to suggest that the cross-department collaboration problem is something of an ongoing "turf war?" Are you proposing a research collaboration or a teaching/student collaboration? | |
| Apr 14, 2018 at 0:02 | comment | added | Kimball | To follow up on @scrappedcola's comment, right now things are too vague to provide specific advice. It would be better to focus on 1 issue and ask a more concrete question about that. | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 23:37 | comment | added | Mad Jack | @scrappedcola It is not hard to imagine many scenarios for which going to HR with this problem will cause additional problems for OP. | |
| S Apr 13, 2018 at 22:41 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2018 at 20:36 | comment | added | scrappedcola | How is this dept head encouraged the disruptive student and the manipulative student? Why haven't you gone to your university's human resources department? Have you asked what specifically wasn't correct about your syllabus or what is wrong with collaborating with the other department? Your "question" seems more like a thinly veiled rant, rather than a serious question. | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 20:34 | comment | added | Anton Menshov | @usr1234567, I would never even think of pointing it out if the username of OP was not PhysicsMan. | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 20:26 | comment | added | usr1234567 | @AntonMenshov: Are you serious? If a person is a good guy, there are complaints that it es explicitly male. If a person is a bad guy, it is not allowed to be female? Strange world. | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 18:25 | comment | added | Anton Menshov | Hmm. One thing I find strange (which has nothing to do with the question btw), is you explicitly mentioning the gender of the department head – AND specifying your own gender in the nickname "PhysicsMan". Though there is nothing wrong with the question, I find it a little weird and would prefer to see a form of a neutral gender. | |
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| Apr 13, 2018 at 17:58 | comment | added | cactus_pardner | It may be helpful for answers to know how much power the Dept. Chair has over your job right now and to what extent your (tenure?) reviews are based on teaching vs. research. | |
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| Apr 13, 2018 at 17:47 | history | asked | PhysicsMan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |