Timeline for Can one blow the whistle on a professor who excludes students on the basis of their personal life?
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| May 9, 2017 at 23:53 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:49 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 11, 2016 at 3:19 | answer | added | aparente001 | timeline score: -2 | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 23:27 | answer | added | RoboKaren | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 20:07 | answer | added | Pete L. Clark | timeline score: 21 | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 14:21 | comment | added | Daniel Wessel | From what is written here I fail to see OP's problem. The advisor does not force the students to stay at work all that time. Nor does he seem exploitative (e.g., lots of menial work for no career advancement). He just expects full commitment. So why shouldn't he — after all, not everything has to be average. Students are free to either fulfill these requirements or look somewhere else. And to be honest, this question also raised thoughts like 'hearsay', 'speaking for others', and 'trying to clip wings to avoid looking bad'. | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 13:10 | comment | added | eykanal | Asking whether one can "whistle blow" is presuming that the answer to the question "Is this practice legally problematic?" is yes. Until that is determined, this question isn't relevant. | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 13:09 | history | edited | eykanal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 10, 2016 at 10:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/785429144062533633 | ||
| Oct 10, 2016 at 5:25 | comment | added | Lentes | I think Captain Emacs' comment is very important: the way you have phrased the question, it makes it sound like what the professor is doing is unambiguously unethical, which it isn't. Honestly, the interactions of the OP in the related question signal to me that the OP was ranting about the perceived "unfairness" that other people work really hard. | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 3:14 | comment | added | Wetlab Walter | To quote Law Abiding Citizen: "It's not what you know. It's what you can prove in court." Unless the professor wrote it in a signed e-mail or was recorded saying such things, i'm afraid it's just hearsay. I think the only realistic solution is as Captain Emacs suggests - whistle blowers who have either no vested interest making a sacrifice, or, accept that this is the reality and that the trust-based PhD system is no longer what it used to be. If PIs want to run their labs like companies, the workers should receive overtime. We can see how long such predatory PIs last in a free market. | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 2:50 | history | edited | ff524 |
"law" tag was misused
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| Oct 10, 2016 at 2:42 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | Care needs to be taken that one can interpret the statements as selecting nolifers, rather then weeding out uncommitted students. Perhaps the method is just to scare easygoing people away? There are some people that "masquerade as monsters to discover heroes". Better have some proof, or it will backfire badly (it probably will backfire in any case - a whistleblower has to be prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause, unfortunately that's the dynamics of the situation). | |
| Oct 10, 2016 at 2:32 | history | asked | aparente001 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |