One co-worker in a fairly large academic department. Said colleague regularly organises meetings with other colleagues, some social, which very clearly I would benefit from going to. (Of course, social meetings I don't expect to be invited to necessarily.) I see them in our shared calendar. I'm never invited. All of which means that I miss out on useful, even vital, information and sharing of ideas which would undoubtedly positively impact my work, my morale and, importantly, the service I provide for students.
There's little I can do about somebody else's mindset and behaviour, so I'm trying to make my peace with it as resentment and upset doesn't make things any better. For my part, if I think it's useful for us both to see someone, I don't think twice about involving my colleague.
The broader point is this - working in higher education isn't the liberal, sharing, co-operative setting that I harboured visions of before I stepped into it from another sector. Is anyone else equally disillusioned? Of course, there are exceptions and some colleagues are properly collegial but it's tough on me that my immediate colleague isn't, at least as far as I'm concerned. Sometimes, I feel as though I'm back at school.
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Eira1649 · 28/05/2022 23:54
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