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Anon
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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2002, 09:03:30 AM » |
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Jobs are far too hard to come by without losing one due to such a nice, but unnecessary sentiment. In any job, from file clerk to professor, all adult people face rejection and lose jobs to better candidates; they also get them to the unintentional detriment of others.
People in temporary or contract jobs know that they can lose their job at any time. Most of us have been there. People have to make contingency plans in case of such events. That is just what life is like.
The job I just got is a great one. I competed for it on a national level and got it over all other comers. I deserve it and am not ashamed to say so. I was told by the chair that the other candidate nice, competent, but without the qualifications that make them Research I material. The person, who was an Instructor, didn't seem to see this, and applied for the job, much to the dismay of this person's colleagues, who knew they would have to disappoint this person. In addition, the courses this person was teaching will now be taught by me, so the person is no longer needed on a contract. What is worse is that the person has long been in what is going to be my office and will have to clear out to make room for me.
I didn't know any of this going in. I only found out recently. The person will no longer be teaching, but will hold a courtesy appointment and have some space in which to work elsewhere in the department, so my decision is to try to be nice, friendly, but not patronizing, and make the best of it. I'm quite sensitive to people's difficulties and I am sympathetic, but I don't feel even remotely guilty.
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