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What are some unprofessional practices in your industry?

487 sats \ 29 comments \ @cryotosensei 2 Jul AskSN

The Science Coordinator passed me a stack of worksheets for my Foundation Science students today. As you might infer, my students are taking the basic version of this subject because of their learning differences.

Scanned through the worksheets. Looked insurmountably hard for my students.

“Could I pick and choose the questions for my students?” I asked.

“Well, I’m not the Head of Department,” she deflected.

Maybe I’m over-sensitive, but her response reeks of an attitude some of my countrymen have. They like to use Not my pay scale whenever they want to avoid making a decision. I mean, she is appointed to be the Coordinator for a reason, right?

Anyway, not ruffled. Just sharing haha

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112 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark 2 Jul

Where do I even start?

105 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 2 Jul

Some sats for you to dull the pain

Your wife settling in well at her new job?

124 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 2 Jul

Yes she gets her first paycheck this week! Finally! It's going to be nice to get our finances back to normal so I can start stacking hard again.

105 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 2 Jul

Yay! Back to stable waters!

109 sats \ 4 replies \ @Cje95 2 Jul

Oh man…. The stories I’ve heard about some Members of Congress… There are a couple of Members I’ve heard about throwing staples at staff and firing people for wearing clothes they don't like. There isn't any recourse for the most part so staffers are sol. I've seen staffers just get torn to shreds in the halls in front of people… its just wild

Important to note non of this is with my committee or job that's another story for another time

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 2 Jul

There were tons of stories about how terrible Klobuchar treated her staff.

Also, certain acts that were recorded on the Senate floor were fairly unprofessional. How often do people get up to wild debauchery but don’t record it?

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 2 Jul

The “cages” in the subbasement of some of the building have a rep as well. The rooms are storage places for Member offices for extra stuff but since its like chain link fencing it has the nickname the cages lol

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 2 Jul

Throwing staples is so juvenile…a bit incredulous to learn that these higher-ups can’t manage their emotions effectively

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 2 Jul

Oh it isn't staples its the whole stapler! So its a huge chunk of metal lol

64 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 2 Jul

My industry is full of thieves. Most of them are data thieves. Whatever free apps you're running or free services you're using, 99% of them are trying to get rich off your data.

Some straight out collect and sell (think meta, goog), others simply train AI models on your stuff (i.e. Github or reddit thru goog and openai).

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 2 Jul

Is there anything you can do to ensure the exclusivity of the data you use?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 2 Jul

As in your (behavioral) data? Yes. Don't share it!

Don't use commercial services.
Don't log in to services.
Never give apps access to location, photos, files, other IDs
Disable or frequently reset your advertiser ID on Android / Apple
Use Brave for desktop
Use a privacy enhancing VPN, i.e. proton or mullvad

Read ~privacy, and share your wisdom.

54 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Jul

Being a total bitch while writing anonymous peer reviews.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 2 Jul

I would be fuming mad. At least have the balls to acknowledge what you review

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Jul

Anonymity is an important aspect of peer review because it prevents social pressure from determining outcomes.

They just don’t need to be dicks about their comments, especially when their comments are stupid anyway.

Like anywhere else online, anonymity promotes ugliness.

34 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 2 Jul

Literally making shit up so you can publish your work

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 3 Jul

No repercussions when caught?

24 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3 Jul

Oh boy, it depends. There have been some high profile cases where repercussions were paid (look up Francesca Geno). But many go under the radar and are never caught. Sometimes, the blame is placed (rightly or wrongly) on a grad student or junior coauthor

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 3 Jul

Went down the rabbit hole and found out that Dan Ariely might be a fraud too. Speechless

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3 Jul

Academia is a lot more corrupt than a lot of people think.

24 sats \ 2 replies \ @bitcoingecko 3 Jul

I'm paid little and this is often my response. I'm just a working robot until I can break free, haha.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 3 Jul

Sigh. Luckily I don’t work with you haha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoingecko 3 Jul

It's why I don't have a career 😉

24 sats \ 1 reply \ @crrdlx 2 Jul

People not showing up for meetings with someone that might be a bit uncomfortable, so that then, the people that do show up (me) have to try to address the person's questions (even though the issues almost entirely don't apply to me). I have to either answer the best I can and look dumb, or give the truth, "I'm afraid you'd have to ask so-and-so on that," and look like I'm deflecting. Either way, it's a bad look for the organization (and maybe me).

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 3 Jul

That’s a sucky situation to be in!

24 sats \ 1 reply \ @kruw 2 Jul

Faking your product's reviews, trade volume, social media likes, etc is a shitty tactic in my opinion.