Being in an unsure situation scares the shit out of me.
All things considered, I’m in the 11th hour, and the shaith is starting to flow.
It’s not a time, in my place of work, that is very conducive to wanting to stick around. Everyone is taking off, left and right, and in my humble opinion, the College of Business may just very well come apart at the seams.
Let’s run it down for those not in the know:
The Dean
The assistant Dean (if things go like I think)
At least 2 department chairs of the 6 (something a third one said to me today really shocked me)
Several professors going in and out of states of retirement
Business advising coordinator
anywhere between 5 and 7 secretaries leaving or have already left, not counting the one that left, hated her new job and came back in two weeks later.
Yeah, so alot of people, and a very short time (3 months) to get things turned back around and get back into the school year.
Also, the University President split town on us at the end of last semester, and his daddy, the former President and now interim/acting President, is gone missing, per a report filed by our lovely student newspaper today. Click here for more details.
Remember, this (other than the President) is all just in one academic college. No telling what the other 6 are doing right now, but I bet it’s just as un-pretty as the situation I face right now.
Now, why do I feel this way about a place I love, albeit mediocrely? It’s because the balance around here is tricky. It’s really a cube turned on a vertice. To make it balance is not the trick, because if the weight is all the same, it can be accomplished. It’s just the fact that when you start pulling pieces out of various places in that cube, and forget that you have to keep the structure stable, it starts to rock, lean, and show its instability. Instability is not a good thing, especially for an institution of this size, because for all we know, we’ll land on an edge of that cube soon, and it’ll be the edge that contains our faces. My love for the CBPA and Murray State may just be mediocre right now, but I still have love for it all the same. I want to see it prosper, and I’m willing to help in whatever aspect I can to make sure that even though we rest on the point, the whole tower doesn’t topple over.
That editorial about where KA was is such bullshit. Maybe the man needed to have his colon scoped and didn’t think it was any body’s goddamned business? WTF? He too an unpaid day off. GET OVER IT. He’s allowed days off and he doesn’t have to tell you where he is on those days off. The paper needs more stuff to report on.
It’s not the fact that he’s been gone for a couple of days, but a couple of weeks, because I hear the paper staff complaining that he is not returning anything they ask him for, his staff always saying that he is not in his office. My worry is that something may happen, and with Kern “gone”, we may not have anyone that can take hold of things like they need to.
I sure hope a colon scope doesn’t take a couple of weeks. O_o
the article didn’t say he was gone for weeks. the article says he was unavilable on april 7th.
had the article mentioned him being gone for weeks, i would have a different opinion.