No way to run a university

Right. I'm applying for a lectureship at my own University, having failed so far to get one anywhere else. I've been told by my head of school that I won't get this job, but that I should apply anyway because it may give them the incentive to move me onto a teaching fellowship which they'll then use as a two-year probationary period before trying to find a junior lectureship for me (if I perform well enough that is, and I'll still have to go through the probationary period for new lecturers). I know this sounds like jam tomorrow (or rather, jam the day after tomorrow), but that's all I have. I'm not entirely pleased about it.

I received the invitation to interview from HR yesterday (actually on Monday, but ias didn't tell me about it until yesterday). The interview is for the 22nd, which is next Tuesday. Unfortunately, the 22nd is also ias's birthday, and I've had that day booked off as leave for the last couple of months. Quite why they sent the notification out by post at such short notice, I know not. The letter from HR mentions only the interview, and doesn't say anything about a research seminar, which would be the norm for a lectureship application.

What really rankles is that I've just had an email giving me the date for my research seminar, namely the 21st, or next Monday. Two working days' notice is far less than adequate, to put it bluntly. I cannot believe that they've given similarly short notice to the other candidates, most of whom will presumably not be internal candidates.

No way to run a university

Right. I'm applying for a lectureship at my own University, having failed so far to get one anywhere else. I've been told by my head of school that I won't get this job, but that I should apply anyway because it may give them the incentive to move me onto a teaching fellowship which they'll then use as a two-year probationary period before trying to find a junior lectureship for me (if I perform well enough that is, and I'll still have to go through the probationary period for new lecturers). I know this sounds like jam tomorrow (or rather, jam the day after tomorrow), but that's all I have. I'm not entirely pleased about it.

I received the invitation to interview from HR yesterday (actually on Monday, but ias didn't tell me about it until yesterday). The interview is for the 22nd, which is next Tuesday. Unfortunately, the 22nd is also ias's birthday, and I've had that day booked off as leave for the last couple of months. Quite why they sent the notification out by post at such short notice, I know not. The letter from HR mentions only the interview, and doesn't say anything about a research seminar, which would be the norm for a lectureship application.

What really rankles is that I've just had an email giving me the date for my research seminar, namely the 21st, or next Monday. Two working days' notice is far less than adequate, to put it bluntly. I cannot believe that they've given similarly short notice to the other candidates, most of whom will presumably not be internal candidates.

No way to run a university, part II

Just had a brief chat with Glorious Leader's secretary, since GL was out of the office and apparently couldn't speak to me himself. Both Glorious Leader and Eternal Leader (my PhD supervisor) are on the interview panel. They both have notoriously full schedules; I've not seen Glorious Leader for more than a couple of minutes in total since the last week of May, and I regularly used to go for three or four months between meetings with Eternal Leader when she was my supervisor. The upshot of this is that there is no other option but for me to cancel my leave next week, and consequently for ias to cancel her leave as well, because there's no way that they can reconvene the interview panel at another time.

For the last five minutes, I've been trying to work out how to express just how angry I am at this turn of events, without recourse to obscenity, but to no avail.

No way to run a university, part II

Just had a brief chat with Glorious Leader's secretary, since GL was out of the office and apparently couldn't speak to me himself. Both Glorious Leader and Eternal Leader (my PhD supervisor) are on the interview panel. They both have notoriously full schedules; I've not seen Glorious Leader for more than a couple of minutes in total since the last week of May, and I regularly used to go for three or four months between meetings with Eternal Leader when she was my supervisor. The upshot of this is that there is no other option but for me to cancel my leave next week, and consequently for ias to cancel her leave as well, because there's no way that they can reconvene the interview panel at another time.

For the last five minutes, I've been trying to work out how to express just how angry I am at this turn of events, without recourse to obscenity, but to no avail.

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