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Shouldn’t a professor who cannot restrain himself from leaving nasty notes on his disliked colleague’s door be fired regardless of which particular word he chose to indicate the reproductive member of a donkey?
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Uh. No. Probably not. Sounds like there is more to the story.
What would really put this episode over the top? If the professor’s name was not “Hyams” but instead was what I at first thought I saw: “Hymens.”
Comment by Allen — October 3, 2007 @ 11:58 pm
No, probably not?
So somebody hanging a note like that on your wife’s door shouldn’t warrant a firing?
These are supposed to be adults.
Comment by Anwyn — October 4, 2007 @ 12:01 am
What I’m suggesting is that there is probably more going on here than is being reported. The note was likely the last straw in a series of events. The story does hint at earlier issues.
As for your hypothetical, if someone left a note like that on my wife’s door, the school wouldn’t be his first worry. Just saying. Hypothetically.
Comment by Allen — October 4, 2007 @ 2:40 am
Standards are so low that people (in this case, college professors) don’t even know what is appropriate or not. This is something you would expect an adolescent to do (and a creepy one at that). The fact that there had been other issues that led to moving an office just shows that this was not a joke, regardless of which word was used. Off with their heads! (I mean, out on the streets.)
Comment by Anne — October 4, 2007 @ 4:11 am
Tenure means never having to say you’re sorry.
Comment by Chuck Bell — October 4, 2007 @ 5:58 am
Heh.
I know that there must be more to it, but my point is that if you colleague is pushing your buttons to some infantile act of schoolyard idiocy, if you can’t be adult enough to talk to your superiors about it, then clearly either it’s not important enough to address in an adult manner, which means it’s not important enough to pursue in ways that reveal you as a stuck adolescent, or it is important enough to address as an adult and you can’t do it. Either way you don’t belong in an adult job.
Comment by Anwyn — October 4, 2007 @ 8:25 am
Gotta agree. Anyone that immature shouldn’t be in a workplace with a reasonably civilized culture. Doesn’t matter if the guy he did that to is the biggest jerk on the planet; there are better ways to handle things. Ironically, I just finished reading a chapter covering interpersonal relationships and conflict resolution for my Business and Professional Communication class, so I could list them now. I learned something at school! Whaddya know? :-)
Comment by Bumble — October 4, 2007 @ 12:38 pm
Well, would a student be expelled for it? I will wager this did not happen at the Berkeley Gay & Lesbian Studies Department.
Comment by Mark — October 5, 2007 @ 4:00 pm