Timeline for Am I being taken advantage of as a teaching assistant?
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| Nov 4, 2021 at 8:20 | comment | added | EarlGrey | @Dawn OP's words "they promised to recruit me in the near future". The DH may have been careless, sure, but you know, people depends on a job and a salary to get food and pay rent, sometimes even to confirm their visa, a promise which is just a speculation does not help. What if the promise does not materialize and OP gets in trouble with immigration offices? I actually prefer a DH acting with malice, rather than being so careless and so poorly understanding of the situation (paying someone cheap and promising a serious contract without actually being able to confirm it). | |
| Nov 4, 2021 at 8:20 | vote | accept | Monad | ||
| Nov 3, 2021 at 19:17 | comment | added | Dawn | So I think this is attributing their behavior to malice (talking about honesty/lies) It is just as likely that the department head thinks they have clearly communicated to the OP, but it was not actually clear because the head thought that the info about the pots of money and their lack of control was obvious (because it is obvious to the head). The head may just have forgotten what sort of info a new grad needs and isn’t explaining as much as they need to. | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 13:31 | comment | added | Lou Knee | @Dawn Either they have the money and should hire the OP, or they don't and should be honest with them about the situation, especially as the OP is turning down other options to stay on. | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 13:14 | comment | added | EarlGrey | @Dawn OP states "the faculty promised to recruit me in the near future". It may be that OP is mixing up what he has been told by the department head,we do not know. Assuming you are OP, try to think a what-if scenario: your department head (DH) promises to recruit you in the near future. Either your DH is actually applying for money from the faculty to hire you as a more advanced position (and should state that, so DH cannot promise anything), or is playing you, because DH needs TA (always has the pocket money) but DH is not willing to change TAs every semester(for DH's own peace of mind &co). | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 12:28 | comment | added | EarlGrey | @Dawn having to apply for external funds to hire more advanced position is not an acceptable excuse for the faculty to say "that OP must wait for the official position because of the COVID-19 pandemic". Different budgets are different budgets as much as different persons have to apply to different budgets. Stop providing excuse for despicable behavior from "leaders" that (most likely) passed through the grinding machine themselves and learned nothing. | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 20:15 | comment | added | Dawn | This answer seems to not understand how university budgets work… often you have different pools of funds available to hire different types of staff. Different departments can also be given different allocations. Our department always has money for TAs and adjuncts and only rarely can hire more advanced positions. | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 16:20 | comment | added | EarlGrey | "I don't know who give the decision that hires me or not" you can start defending your rights when you know your rights. Get in touch immediately with the student association, with the ombdusman, even with HR. There may not be a direct person that decides to hire you, but there is for sure someone responsible for arranging and providing that all the bachelor and master courses your faculty is offering are covered by someone teaching them, so ... | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 12:12 | comment | added | Monad | Thank you for letting me know that. I don't know who give the decision that hires me or not, I only converse with the secretary of the faculty, another lecturer I knew can not give me any information. So sad when knowing that this is a dirty job, I worked as others and only have low salary per class. | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 11:19 | history | answered | EarlGrey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |