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scrog_420
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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It wouldn't have been to any particular campus since you're not assigned to a campus until after you're hired.
What galls me is that these people who do the interviewing, not to mention the supervisors who make your life hell if you do get a job, were all in the same boat once. They were desperate for work once, they lay awake at night once worried sick about how they were going to support their families, but they forget where they came from. They get a job in Dubai or Jeddah or Qatar or KSA making more money than they could ever dream of back in Seattle or Birmingham or Dublin or Glascow or Melbourne, and they become collaborators and quislings and forget that they're playing with other people's lives. |
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Middle East Beast

Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 836 Location: Up a tree
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| scrog_420 wrote: |
It wouldn't have been to any particular campus since you're not assigned to a campus until after you're hired.
What galls me is that these people who do the interviewing, not to mention the supervisors who make your life hell if you do get a job, were all in the same boat once. They were desperate for work once, they lay awake at night once worried sick about how they were going to support their families, but they forget where they came from. They get a job in Dubai or Jeddah or Qatar or KSA making more money than they could ever dream of back in Seattle or Birmingham or Dublin or Glascow or Melbourne, and they become collaborators and quislings and forget that they're playing with other people's lives. |
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veiledsentiments

Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 1:57 am Post subject: |
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It's the Peter Principle writ large...
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Tsuris
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Middle East Beast

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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| While a comparable salary with housing included would allow me to save considerably more per month, the distinct impression I get is that I'd be working a lot harder for that money and spending more energy on dealing with politics and personalities than on the work itself. |
Very perceptive.  |
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scrog_420
Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 47 Location: State of Jefferson
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:39 am Post subject: |
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| Middle East Beast wrote: |
| Tsuris wrote: |
| While a comparable salary with housing included would allow me to save considerably more per month, the distinct impression I get is that I'd be working a lot harder for that money and spending more energy on dealing with politics and personalities than on the work itself. |
Very perceptive.  |
Yep, as someone who was chewed up and spit out twice by HCT, I agree. They were two of the worst experiences of my life, and I'll never forgive those responsible. Nor will I forget. |
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