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I'm pissed, and I'm blowing off steam by making a poll. Seems better than hitting someone right now; after all, we all know about Turkish prisons...
Anyway here's our topic: I have a job offer on the table for a job that will start in January. But my wife and I are academics on one-year contracts that get renewed every June. What to do? Well, we could have done the sneaky thing (as so many have before us at this university) and renewed our contract for a whole year, then quit suddenly in December; it would have been dishonorable and probably illegal, but not had any long-term ramifications. But noooooooo. We decided to do the honorable thing and tell the administration what was going on in our lives, then request that our contracts be extended for 6 months. I got renewed but, in spite of her exemplary service to the university, my wife did not. However, they would have renewed her for a whole year if we'd just been willing to lie to them.
You try to be honest. You try to have some moral fiber. And this is what you get. Damn damn damn damn damn.
Anyway here's our topic: I have a job offer on the table for a job that will start in January. But my wife and I are academics on one-year contracts that get renewed every June. What to do? Well, we could have done the sneaky thing (as so many have before us at this university) and renewed our contract for a whole year, then quit suddenly in December; it would have been dishonorable and probably illegal, but not had any long-term ramifications. But noooooooo. We decided to do the honorable thing and tell the administration what was going on in our lives, then request that our contracts be extended for 6 months. I got renewed but, in spite of her exemplary service to the university, my wife did not. However, they would have renewed her for a whole year if we'd just been willing to lie to them.
You try to be honest. You try to have some moral fiber. And this is what you get. Damn damn damn damn damn.
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