sad academic

precarious, drained, sad, angry | uk employed interdisciplinary academic ~outsider~ | anon for obvious reasons |

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

EVERYONE I've spoken to is hopeful about the future of the department but they are clearly not thinking rationally.

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

My bully has been promoted. Her application for the job and my complaint must have been read by the same person at the same time. Fuck the University.

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

Very average mid-career women in management are our biggest enemy. I genuinely believe some of them enjoy watching us struggle.

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

So I am signed off on stress and have no idea how I will ever go back to work #PrecarityStory 5 academic years of being lied to and humiliated. Fuck academia.

[Vicky Blake UCU @vickyblake.bsky.social @zenscara]

“Universities may be financially solvent but they are morally bankrupt” — noting the surpluses in the sector and the deficit in decent treatment of workers in higher education #UCUStrikesBack

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

I am now going to the GP and hoping to be signed off on stress 7/x

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

I have been quiet for a while. Some successes, I'm now a PI on a UKRI grant and still don't have a research contract. 1/x

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

Spent 4 days in bed depressed through the #UCUStrikes 6/x

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

Anyone got any advice about going off work on stress?

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

I have cried at work three times today. What’s the fucking point.

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

(3) were i a more grateful neoliberal subject

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

One of my jobs is about to advertise a role that would be given to me if: (1) I was a man; (2) the HoS wasn’t an incompetent bully

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

Can’t wait to quit one of my jobs and de-anon this account.

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

Trying not to cry laugh when you see your neoliberal nightmare boss like tweets in solidarity with issues of visas, fixed term contracts. You design precarity, doofus.

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

I am so desperate about my situation I’ve started low key gambling

[sad academic @AcademicSad]

u know u need to quit one of ur jobs when u find urself crying in the bathroom for the 3rd time in the last 7 days.