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[txgalprof]

Do workman's comp claims not apply if the task that led to the injury was not part of the job description?

Do you not have the "other duties as assigned" clause in your job description? It was a mainstay of my grad student life....

[kromlooper]

If it's a question of able-bodied and vigorous youth, then why not get male students to do it? All the students doing this are female, and two of the three, including the student in question, are thin and slight.

Hilarious. Feminism teaches us that women and men are equal in all senses and that women should be able to become policepersons, firepersons and military grunts (are those the politically correct terms?), but when asked to move some books... "Let the men do it!"

[tinyzombie]

If it's a question of able-bodied and vigorous youth, then why not get male students to do it? All the students doing this are female, and two of the three, including the student in question, are thin and slight.

Hilarious. Feminism teaches us that women and men are equal in all senses and that women should be able to become policepersons, firepersons and military grunts (are those the politically correct terms?), but when asked to move some books... "Let the men do it!"

I don't disagree with what may be your intent (of which systeme_d's post upthread is a much more elegant formulation), but as for your delivery and tone, I'll say this: I do not think ANY Of those words mean what you think they mean.

[rose_fingered_dawn]

Oh, this thread is still alive. I wonder if someone said something to the chair, because I ended up photocopying and returning books on Friday, then the chair asked me to organize their files. It turned to be a great professionalizing experience. I did minor lifting and moving and organizing for around four hours, and for an hour the chair was there helping me rearrange stuff at the end of the day (the movers hadn't arranged some things to chair's satisfaction), and telling me where to put files and putting some books up themselves and doing some work. We chatted on and off and I hadn't realized chair had a sense of humor. We went to same undergrad school, so talked a lot about that and about a conference coming up. I had to organize tenure review files, including my own advisor's file and that of a very famous name in my sub-discipline! It was really exciting, and a bit scary because there was a drawer full of the other grads' files which I had to hastily file.