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1. Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 16:41:12 JST Pauline von Hellermann

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   #AcademicVenting we have now all received invitations to atend our “Stage 1 Individual Consultations”. Lovely to be encouraged by the corporate booking system they used to “grab a meeting”. Grab a reduncancy meeting, yeah!

   • Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 16:41:13 JST Pauline von Hellermann

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     #AcademicVenting Yes this too happened. All just borrowing from each other, or the same SMT people moving from uni to uni, wreaking havoc everywhere they go, with every step enhancing their own careers

     https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2024-4-university-sends-out-redundancy-information-with-wrong-name-on-it/

   • Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 16:41:14 JST Pauline von Hellermann

     #AcademicVenting

     “The modern university has become a site of moral harm or injury, perhaps mildly so, but a hard place to work and keep one’s sense of purpose and morality intact. Universities have moved progressively out of line with their staff’s view of the world, and that gap is another element in the increasing difficulty of keeping a grip on reality.“