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Posted by alexandra_k on February 4, 2020, at 14:02:51
This is how we pick our leaders. You know, the people who will get to be on the team of the leaders we pick.
We go: Who amongst them all behaves worse than me so that if anybody is held to account -- it will not be me.
And that is, of course, the most important criterion of all.
Like the strategy of needing to run only a little faster than the slowest to outrun the bear.
We go 'we have far more skilled and competent and capable x than there are places available!' But of course all we really meant to say is 'there are lots of people who I can outrun and I would like to choose them for my team'.
Posted by alexandra_k on February 4, 2020, at 14:19:25
In reply to leaders, posted by alexandra_k on February 4, 2020, at 14:02:51
And the people go 'if this is what you think of us then why would you want to join us?'
But of course: I don't.
THeir leadership has been ensuring that things remain underdeveloped here (going backwards in so very very very many respects).
Only someone who willed the extermination of the people would want them to lead.
And that's the trouble, really.
What I want for them to do is the things they are supposed to do.
Process teh application. PRocess my application. Process everyone elses application too.
Process the completion. Process my completion. PRocess everyone elses completion too.
Advertise the jobs. Advertise all of the jobs. In places where people with the relevant capacity can find them. Select the person with the greatest capacity for the job. NOt the person who behaves badly enough for you to feel better about yourself. NOt the cheapest person. NOt the least completent person for you to feel better about yourself. Not the person who follows you about all day seeking your approval for everything to make you feel indepensible and useful.
Only... These are the jobs that the government made. The government chose to invest in these things. To enble these rounds of interviews. To pay for people to advertise these positions to engage in this process of interview. To encourage people to meet with them so they can help prepare them for their job interview...
Imagine if Trump went... Hey, you know that... Was it 10? 15 week job interview you all signed up for... Where you agreed to take that many weeks interviewing in exchange for likely some kind of living allowance and board in a NY apartment andfootage being broadcast nationally and internationally for various employers to see...
Imagine if in that last week he was like 'oh, by the way, we need yuo to stay on for another 10 or 15 weeks or we won't broadcast anything, at all. Just, uh, keep on 'interviewing' and here's another, uh, task for you to complete for me...'
People would walk off.
They would have every right to ruin his reputation so that people know he did that. So good people know not to do business with him.
He should be required to do what he promised / signed up for.
The Univerity promised to process applciatons for thesis enrolments within 1 month. They refused. I produced evidence for them that I started working with that month and they appear to be too stupid to apprehend that an email from my supervisor commenting on writing and directing my reading is supervision.
The University refused to send a thesis submitted for examinaiton out for examination. THey spent a week looking into whether there was a regulation that meant they couldn't sent it out. THey didn't find one. But of course there also wasn't one that said they had to send it out. SO they didn't send it out.
THey didn't seem to grasp that clearly they are supposed to send it out in a timely fashion. I mean... What's the overall thing again? Oh yeah, the overall function of the University is for the leaders to make as much money off of the students labor as they can while refusing to acknowledge or credit or sign off on their students work (By, you know, passing it off as their own work and by bullying the student away).
When students enrol in a 1 year research Degree it isn't reasonable for the University to have not sent the thesis submitted for examination out... What is it now... 2 years later. 2 years and several months...
The University NEVER sent a thesis that I submitted for examination out for examination.
They go: Make us!
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Posted by alexandra_k on February 4, 2020, at 14:33:19
In reply to Re: leaders, posted by alexandra_k on February 4, 2020, at 14:19:25
We have an Education Act that says that there is Freedom of Speech and the like in our Universities.
Which of course means that we don't and that there isn't.
I see now that the reason why the DHB offered a scholarship to someone working on health equity was so they would get to collect up all the ressearch proposals / all the ideas for research.
The research proposals aren't being used for the purpose for which they were collected (deciding which project to fund). The research projects are free labor done for the DHB under false pretenses.
They say that they actually did fund a project.
The condition on the funding was that the person was required to give a presentation of their research to the research group at the DHB.
They say they funded a psychology studnet's masters research.
A masters research project has a 1 year enrolment.
It is actually supposed to be 1 academic year (34 weeks) including the examination period (Tertiary Education Commission). But the Universities have been refusing to do things this way (the way they are funded) and instead have been going against regulations in requiring (forcing) students to work for at least 12 calendar months before submitting the thesis for examination (where examination takes at least 3 months and where the outcome of examination will always be delivered by the University (but not the examiners) that the student is required to keep working for at least 6 motnhs and then have another round of examination).
Only I think MA or MSoc Sci is different from MPHil because the outcomes of examination do not include 'keep working'. Still, my outcome of examination could not be 'keep working' becuase that was not an outcome of examination.
But I don't suppose there is anything in the regulations on *when* the University must confer a Degree.
Waikato says you are *invited* to conferral ceremonies. You don't apply on the grounds that you have completed the requirementsf or the Degree.
The leaders *invite* the people they have selected to graduate to graduate. Likely the people they don't feel they are profiting from by keeping them around. Studnets who won't produce work independently, I mean to say. Studnets who might be skilled in appropriating the work of others, however.There was this document that the VC wrote. I wondered if he wrote anything. He clearly wrote it himself. He said that there is a lot of grey in teh rules.
Yes. When you lack the ability to see the overall aim / goal / vision... When you lack the ability to see the reason for the rules that are there (to interpret them in line with the vision). When you see the customs and so on that should be in place because they are in keeping with the vision (e.g., in sending the thesis that has been submitted out for examination such that the examination process can be completed within 3 months per 120 points which is in teh spirit of the whole thing)...
Then you see lots and lots and lots of opportunities for yourself to exploit things and have things come out to your own personal advantage.
But that's not what we call being a 'team player'. Or having leadership capacity.
But I guess they didn't publically advertise that job.
I don't know how much World Bank / International Monetary Fund / NZ Government money he takes each and every year for himself...
While he goes about saying, in print, that he lacks the capacity to do his job.
I guess that's why he goes about saying 'make me'.
Why doesn't he just follow the f*ck*ng rules?
The appeal came to him as the highest authority within the University.
The evidence was compelling.
He had the opportunity to see reason.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
This is the end of the thread.
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