tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post1570722070370695931..comments2024-03-27T21:23:40.339-04:00Comments on Chemjobber: Calculated Risk author downgrades all economics forecasts for H2 2020/2021Chemjobberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-7476092060047175232020-06-29T10:51:09.267-04:002020-06-29T10:51:09.267-04:00I guess what I noted is in my instiution (R1 with ...I guess what I noted is in my instiution (R1 with med school) is that the more poorly paid and unprotected people (adjunct lecturers, general medical workers) are losing their jobs, while the more well paid people (tenured faculty and administrators) are not. And some of these well-paid people (faculty who are in their 80's and refuse to retire) I'm sure the school would love to get rid of, but can't. There is a lost of waste in academia, without a doubt, and the corona virus seems to make it stand out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647888828182905752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-1547216993977179832020-06-26T21:04:13.875-04:002020-06-26T21:04:13.875-04:00Yeah, we academics are looking at belt tightening ...Yeah, we academics are looking at belt tightening for the next year or so. I wish the University and College level administration would take more of the brunt of it. They skim enough off the top for their pet projects and administrative "support;" you'd think those would be the first to go, but whatever percentage contraction (3-10%) is getting passed down to the departmental level instead. <br /><br />I note that your burden distribution is backward. Non-tenured faculty are going to get laid off if this goes on long enough and their load spread among T/T. It's the last option as lecturers are liked, valued, and frankly indispensable, but the idiotic shift toward Universities as banks has driven a wedge into the teaching/research dichotomy with the power still vested in the research, but official paycheck (and majority of the work) in the teaching. <br /><br />I wish at the University level they would tap more of us to help with the COVID effort. I have furloughed, non-critical personnel who could put our idle PCR machines to use doing testing, and all of our school's med students could sample the community instead of learning remotely. And that's at a minimum. We're not viral researchers, but we're all trained scientists ffs. Good luck to us all.<br />CBCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-38840776309805445872020-06-26T09:39:18.622-04:002020-06-26T09:39:18.622-04:00PPE just doesn't consume that much material, o...PPE just doesn't consume that much material, on the order of 1% of supply for things like PP and PE even with the surge in production. It can't come anywhere near offsetting the loss in big-ticket, heavy items like cars, appliances, and housing.Ogemaniachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02396797613368443908noreply@blogger.com