So... I work at a community college and to say capitalism is destroying it is an understatement:
Professors offered shorter and shorter contracts, buried under admin assigned paperwork, and penalized for *checks notes* not doing said paperwork because they are attending to their students (many of the students are from marginalized groups or low income)
Staff expectied to work over 40 hours to get the additional paperwork and our jobs done on time. Help? Depends on HR and funding (we just bought a NEW! building! Enrollment isn't all that high!!)
HR? Understaffed, so it holds up getting new hires and processing said paperwork
New system for pay? Broken, IT is struggling to fix it (also understaffed)
New system to input grades? Broken, calculates grades wrong, some professors do it by hand or use excel.
Classes? Mostly 8 week babey! We are cutting so much of your education just to meet the deadlines! We all hate it, voiced our concerns, but it fell on deaf ears because every student passing through is more money. We have sold our souls and struggle with rent, food, medical etc.
JAM. PACK. THE. ROOMS. Optimize room space. You do not need to pee. You do not need privacy nor do your students.
Jeff Bezos has higher priority to your lectures rooms than you do.
You need admin to sign off on pay? (admin goes on vacation)
If you are locked out of your office, its because you were fired (no email)
Suicide is a concern.
Died? Sorry, can't help you. Pick up the shovel and bury your mother
Immunocompromized and can't work in person since pandemic? Its fine, you still have your job. (Jk its not. Lol byeee)
Old? So much paperwork that you can't keep up and we force you out
Young? Sorry, we are only taking part time, we just don't have the funds and you don't have the qualifications (what are they? Ask HR. Except HR is out of the office)
Its one thing to fuck over everyone working here, but fucking over students who can barely afford higher education, homeless, high school, immigrant, disabled, veteran, neurodivergent, queer, and/or poc? Selling them a promise of an affordable education that you can build upon to eventually get a stable job?
AND YOU, ADMINS, BELONG TO THOSE COMMUNITIES?
Be careful you don't fall off as you're pulling up the ladder, its a long drop to Hell.
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making the most of my job where i can go on tumblr and eat a pastry in the back office and read behind the till and go for like 4 extra smoke breaks before i get moved permanently to the main store (they are selling off the petrol stations to another company 😢)..... literally doing 2 months of the most glorious skiving before ill be expected to actually pay attention and work for most of my shift KMS
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