I spent 13 years in academia...Lemme tell you, in many areas of the country, teachers' salaries are severely depressed. In Florida, a grade school teacher will start at $23K. One lady, after 28 years of teaching middle school, finally broke 40K. On the college level--one of the larger junior colleges only wanted to pay new hires (with Masters) $28K. We literally had one teaching position in CompSci open for almost *3* years because we'd make an offer to an applicant and they'd LAUGH.
Then there was the constant hassle of dealing with budget cuts, or rather lack of a budget, the shrinking state funds, plus the never ending quest for FTE (Full-Time Equivalents) in order to get matching funds. I saw some of the best teachers forced to retire because of budget cuts.
So...academia is not necessarily a refuge. With the squeeze on state funding, schools and colleges are being forced to tighten their belts.
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When employees attempt to use e-mail to replace interpersonal communication entirely, it can easily get out of hand.
At work at an on-line courseware development house, I recently joined a project with an e-mail gung-ho supervisor. Such was her mindset that this supervisor couldn't be bothered to actually turn around and speak to the woman exactly one cube over and tell her something face to face. Instead, the supervisor verbally castigated the woman for not reading the e-mail the supervisor had sent as soon as she had sent it. This same supervisor is responsible for generating several dozen e-mails a day. I have literally cleared my inbox to 0 and had it back up to 100 within a day.
When e-mail is used inappropriately, it becomes more of a harrassment than a tool for communication.
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I spent 13 years in academia...Lemme tell you, in many areas of the country, teachers' salaries are severely depressed. In Florida, a grade school teacher will start at $23K. One lady, after 28 years of teaching middle school, finally broke 40K. On the college level--one of the larger junior colleges only wanted to pay new hires (with Masters) $28K. We literally had one teaching position in CompSci open for almost *3* years because we'd make an offer to an applicant and they'd LAUGH.
Then there was the constant hassle of dealing with budget cuts, or rather lack of a budget, the shrinking state funds, plus the never ending quest for FTE (Full-Time Equivalents) in order to get matching funds. I saw some of the best teachers forced to retire because of budget cuts.
So...academia is not necessarily a refuge. With the squeeze on state funding, schools and colleges are being forced to tighten their belts.
When employees attempt to use e-mail to replace interpersonal communication entirely, it can easily get out of hand. At work at an on-line courseware development house, I recently joined a project with an e-mail gung-ho supervisor. Such was her mindset that this supervisor couldn't be bothered to actually turn around and speak to the woman exactly one cube over and tell her something face to face. Instead, the supervisor verbally castigated the woman for not reading the e-mail the supervisor had sent as soon as she had sent it. This same supervisor is responsible for generating several dozen e-mails a day. I have literally cleared my inbox to 0 and had it back up to 100 within a day. When e-mail is used inappropriately, it becomes more of a harrassment than a tool for communication.