Timeline for Can I say no when my principal investigator asks me to help cover lectures next semester?
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| Nov 13, 2018 at 15:02 | comment | added | einpoklum | @NateEldredge: When both colleagues get paid, then sure. When one gets paid significantly more than the other, then - perhaps in US Professorial culture post-docs are expected to do this. And post-docs may expect being pressured into doing this. Also, note I didn't suggest that you ask the PI for money, just that you ask him/her to make it official, so that the university (which pays him/her) will need to pay you. And I did acknowledge this could be poorly received. | |
| Nov 13, 2018 at 14:59 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | It's a nice thought, but I don't think it will work well in practice. In US academic culture, as I said, this is something that colleagues expect to do for one another, without extra pay. As such there do not exist any funds to pay people for covering lectures, and even if there were, I'd expect the bureaucracy needed to make it happen would be prohibitive. So asking for payment will be seen as asking for something unreasonable and out of the ordinary, a more annoying way of saying "no". The PI will say "Forget it, I'll ask someone else", and will retain a memory of you as unhelpful. | |
| Nov 13, 2018 at 11:34 | history | edited | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2018 at 12:22 | comment | added | user21264 | The precarious nature of a postdoc job is a doorway to many abuses, such as this. It doesn't matter how nice is the PI, it's still an abuse. If the PI is forced to commit such an abuse, that's also an issue with the entire academic system. | |
| Nov 10, 2018 at 8:20 | history | edited | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 10, 2018 at 5:52 | comment | added | Mr. Unnormalized Posterior | Makes excellent point about "undermining time / compensation for teaching or institutional-administrative duties". | |
| Nov 9, 2018 at 8:31 | history | answered | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |