Timeline for Some career start-up (postdoc) questions [closed]
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| Jan 15, 2013 at 18:30 | comment | added | user23860 | @kreck: I think being a bad teacher is just being a bad teacher and an inappropriate behavior is just a bad behavior. I call someone jerk (in an office or institute) if he (or she) abuses his power or his position to suppress others, in other words a bully. Honestly, yes I have seen a few of such people among postdocs as well as senior faculties and all of them somehow got the job. Unfortunately the current system is unable to address issues. My point is such vague accusations can open the door for prejudices and discrimination in academia. So we must be a little more careful. | |
| Jan 15, 2013 at 18:00 | history | closed |
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| Jan 15, 2013 at 14:53 | comment | added | user29720 | @Vahid: Doing a terrible job with one's teaching (e.g., never preparing for class, mumbling into the blackboard and ignoring any advice on how to improve, setting impossibly hard exams, dismissing student questions as "stupid", etc.) is an example of jerky behavior. Or behaving in a very arrogant way when interacting with colleagues & students. Surely you have met people in "real life" whom you think are jerks. It is not true that one needs "power" to do something "bad" or deserve the label "jerk" (which isn't to say that people with tenure cannot be jerks too, of course). | |
| Jan 15, 2013 at 11:11 | comment | added | user23860 | @Julia: Could you tell us what kind of jerky actions a postdoc (and young faculties until they get tenure) can commit to deserve your expression "certain jerks"? I am asking this question because postdocs have little or no power in academia so they cannot do anything bad even if they are really evil. | |
| Jan 15, 2013 at 8:28 | history | edited | Makura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 15, 2013 at 7:37 | comment | added | Julia | No one cares about the specific job title of a postdoc, though the named ones often have more money or less teaching. It's true that postdocs at fancier places get more interviews, but it's hard to control for the fact that people who get those postdocs are much stronger than those who go to weaker places (the quality of postdocs drops very fast as you go down the rankings, just like the quality of grad students). However, if it makes you feel better I don't know anyone who did good work at a reasonable rate and didn't get a commensurate job (excepting certain jerks who no one would hire). | |
| Jan 15, 2013 at 7:17 | comment | added | Dirk | Better suited for academia.stackexchange.com, I think. Moreover, I do not know what a TT job is, neither what named postdoc positions are and what XYZ V.A.P or VAP could mean. | |
| Jan 15, 2013 at 7:13 | history | asked | Makura | CC BY-SA 3.0 |