Were You Hazed? Are you Being Hazed? This is the Place to Vent About Your Job

[Munchkin03]

My stupid MS program TRIED to haze...but I thought the work was busy work and not very hard. So, I did whatever I had to do to pass (the school is on pass/fail grading). I was not about to stay up 2 days in a row to basically repeat work I had done in undergrad. Some of my classmates did succumb to the pressure to stay up all the time and give up weekends and vacations.

My biggest piece of advice is to DEVELOP A LIFE OF YOUR OWN. Set aside times where you do not discuss school work, professors, or program politics. Spend time with people who aren't your classmates and who aren't involved in your field whatsoever. If you have to leave town for a few days to maintain your sanity--do it. A few semesters ago, I decided to make the weekends my own. I did all of the work during the week, and I would socialize, sleep, and just veg on the weekends. It provided for very stressful weeks, but it was worth it to have a life on the weekends. I see my classmates--even now, weeks after graduation--who didn't develop a life. I feel sorry for them.

[neosoul]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

My biggest piece of advice is to DEVELOP A LIFE OF YOUR OWN. Set aside times where you do not discuss school work, professors, or program politics.

tabernacle!

*side note: thanks to all the educated Black Women that posted, y'all are a RARITY in the world today*

[nonchalant]

I do feel as if I am being hazed. My supervisor sees great opportunities for me, so she has taken me under her wing to try to move me up in the company. She is constantly drilling me with information. She later plays mind games with me to see if I know my information. She constantly has me doing things that are outside of my job description such as facilitating classes. She's hit me before as well as other upper management when I did something out of line. She is basically trying to mold me into her perfect employee by any means necessary. There is always constant change in which I have to adapt to faster than others in her eyes. Our rules are being restructured. Mind you, my supervisor wants to be a delta, so I pick with her every chance I get. I told her what's up with all the changes in rules and sayings. Is this delta sigma theta? Are you trying to rewrite the book? All in all, I think it will be worth it in the end. I did get a better raise than most on the team. I'm still a work in progress. This is a long MIP.

[PhDiva]

I'm a assistant professor and I'm getting hazed again (the first time with the Ph.D. program). I was told that "you have no freedom of speech until you get tenure" by my dissertation advisor. You have to try to stay in everyone's good graces, not let folks piss you off and meeting the requirements of tenure: teaching, research and service. I have to show up to events that bore me to tears so that my dean sees my face

Like last week I had to sit through a musical of 1940's Broadway show tunes because the alumni give lots of money at this event and the faculty need to make an appearance. Urggghh!!! My fiance swore he would kill me for making him suffer through that. But those are the types of hazing academics have to deal with if we want to continue working.

I have 5 more years before I go up for tenure and I pray I can keep my mouth shut until then.

PhDiva