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78 sats \ 6 replies \ @kepford 23h
This was true when I worked in this system almost 20 years ago. I will add that even those that don't care as much about salaries and value low expectations the overall culture towards just getting by really pushed out the best people. I can only speak to my experience but all of the good people I knew eventually went to the private sector.
Now I'm a parent with two children in the system and I can say the service sucks. Many online instructors are clearly barely doing enough to get by. My sons have stories that are ridiculous regarding these online courses. It's not just this story of fake students. I don't doubt that this is happening but these people love making excuses and this is a great one.
One thing that makes no sense to me is this affecting in person classes.
I will say, when I was working in the system and even today with my sons there are great people doing good work inside this flawed and failing system. The problem in my opinion is the socialist incentive system. Make them market based and suddenly the incentives would flip and these problems would be much easier to solve.
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73 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 21h
Yeah, being surrounded by lazy people grates on me... but then again I don't think I'd feel very at home in a super-fast-paced go-get'em atmosphere like the big tech companies either. I'm just not that ambitious about money, honestly, and would rather work on my own independent side projects that I think are cool rather than serving a corporate overlord who can fire me at any time.
It's hard to find a place where you get a good balance of people.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 18h
There are middle ground places. You described the extremes. The vast majority of IT jobs are not like working in Silicon Valley.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 17h
I have never worked at the stereotypical tech company. Worked at an agency for years and it was fast paced but it wasn't cutthroat compared to plenty of other companies. I now work in a large tech company but it isn't like companies like Google either.
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101 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 23h
I read about someone making millions per year by "teaching" hundreds of these online courses at a time. By the time his poor performance gets him fired from one position, he's already acquired several more.
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112 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 23h
Based on my sons and other students experience I believe it. Some of these "instructors" are barely involved. It's an absolute joke.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 23h
Forgot this quote. Yeah, understatement
Over and over again in my 5 years working in IT in thus system I would encounter obvious problems no one would discuss because the culture was to keep your head down. Little incentive to ask tough questions or suggest different approaches. Multiple times I would make a suggestion or even ask a question about why we were doing something only to be ridiculed. I even had a VP sabotaging my reputation in the district. Thankfully my reputation with my colleagues made people that knew me discard this.
I was skeptical of any government run institution at the time but was still a Rush Limbaugh Republican. Working in this system opened my eyes to many issues I wasn't aware of. I jumped at the chance to move to private higher ed. Which was much better but because they copy many bad practices from the public side and are filled with the products of that system it too was deeply flawed.
I moved to the cut throat agency world where my hustle is rewarded instead of ridiculed and never regretted it.
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36 sats \ 9 replies \ @orto 23h
Is that also a thing?
Fake professors have been identified nationwide. 400 professors.
And they are still in office.
Because the president's diploma is also fake.
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10 sats \ 8 replies \ @siggy47 OP 23h
I guess so
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36 sats \ 7 replies \ @orto 23h
It really is.
Erdogan, the maniacal dictator, has become more and more violent. Either we will bring him down, or he will tear the country apart.
This professor issue pales in comparison to the dictator's other actions.
You'll hear about it soon.
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10 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 OP 22h
That doesn't sound good. I had a Turkish friend who was living in the US for many years. He criticized Erdogan on Facebook constantly, and he told me that he got threatened frequently by Turkish people in the US, and told to stop. He laughed it off. He's a tough guy.
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36 sats \ 5 replies \ @orto 22h
Unfortunately, most of them live in America because the source of their power is the United States. Erdogan was also on the side of Fethullah Gulen. Maybe you know Fethullah, who died in Pennsylvania....
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 OP 21h
Yes. My friend and his friends hated that man. I don't follow Turkish politics too much. Did he die fairly recently?
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36 sats \ 3 replies \ @orto 21h
Yes, he recently died.
In 2016, he attempted a U.S.-backed military coup. More than 250 people died. F-16 fighter jets bombed the parliament. The soldiers, who believed in Ataturk, the founder of the country, prevented the coup. They killed the general who was the commander of the coup in Turkey while the coup was taking place.
At the time of the coup, a senator in the U.S. House said
"A lot of good things are happening across the ocean, in Turkey right now...."
P.S.: Fethullah Gulen was a radical Islamist like ISIS...
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 21h
That's exactly how he was described to me.
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72 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 15h
I am shocked, absolutely shocked
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 23h
Every semester I have a handful of students (can count them on one hand) who don't show up for a single class or do a single assignment, but they show up for the final exam.
In our system, if a student fails a class, we have to mark the "last day they attended". Since these students showed up for the final exam, I have to say they attended on the day of the final.
Thus, they fail the class, but probably do not lose eligibility for whatever scam they're running.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 23h
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