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GOGSoc Episode VI: The GoG, the Bad and the Ugly

Reply 9060

Musicalie

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Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd

Welcome

(I always get told off for using happy smileys to greet people :colondollar:

)

That's because we're not HOGs :tongue:

Welcome Noodlzzz!

Reply 9061

sj27

14

Original post by wadhamite

The power of compromise - a small amount of teaching, after I have settled in, is allowed. Hurrah!

Excellent!

Original post by Noodlzzz

Subbed for September application!

Grumpy hellos!

Original post by Salchow

That's because we're not HOGs :tongue:

!

I mean,

Reply 9062

Puck_1991

8

Original post by wadhamite

Thanks for the comments, folks. I still don't have the contract (it's all online, they're processing things like my passport and degree cert atm, fitness to work etc). I was hoping to get permission in my contract (for example, to take it as unpaid leave, or to take half the days as paid leave and the other half unpaid) - it would be eight days teaching total, not to begin until January. I am going to email the new boss again, as I didn't spell out the specifics last time, and see if it seems more palatable to her. I'm also going to offer to start the job two weeks early, to effectively 'give back' those eight days.

I think they don't want me teaching because they think it will be a distraction. That's fair. It's just frustrating because it's only a 15 month contract, they've made promises to extend it after that (but, hey, if it's not written down it's not worth ****) but I need to keep options open. There are four people retiring in my department in the next 24 months, plus the university has been holding back some permanent contracts while they look for a new head of department, so in 2015/16 they will do a shedload of permanent hires and I want to be one of them... From past experience, if you keep 'in' with the department, the eventual job descriptions they put out are more likely to match your field of expertise (rather than being a broad, general search).

I think what you're planning makes sense. Best of luck and hope it all works out for you :smile:

!

Reply 9063

Interrobang

20

Original post by wadhamite

The power of compromise - a small amount of teaching, after I have settled in, is allowed. Hurrah!

That's good news :smile:

Reply 9064

Eugenie Grandet

10

Finished my first draft :woo:

Hope to hear from supervisor soon, kinda gone off the radar again :sad:

Reply 9065

Eugenie Grandet

10

Original post by Noodlzzz

Subbed for September application!

Reply 9066

Puck_1991

8

Original post by wadhamite

The power of compromise - a small amount of teaching, after I have settled in, is allowed. Hurrah!

Yay! Fantastic, glad you sorted it :smile:

Reply 9067

The_Lonely_Goatherd

20

Original post by Eugenie Grandet

Finished my first draft :woo:

Hope to hear from supervisor soon, kinda gone off the radar again :sad:

Nice work! Fingers crossed supervisor replies soon :smile:

Reply 9068

Eugenie Grandet

10

Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd

Nice work! Fingers crossed supervisor replies soon :smile:

Thanks TLG, I hope so too. Otherwise, I really will start crying :colondollar:

Reply 9069

Cirsium

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Today I met a nice man from TSR and he gave me a stick of rock that says TSR on it :-D

Reply 9070

The_Lonely_Goatherd

20

Original post by Cirsium

Today I met a nice man from TSR and he gave me a stick of rock that says TSR on it :-D

Very nice! :biggrin:

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Reply 9071

Interrobang

20

Original post by Cirsium

Today I met a nice man from TSR and he gave me a stick of rock that says TSR on it :-D

How random but cool :tongue:

My stuff is now moved to my new place

Reply 9072

Piggsil

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Original post by Cirsium

Today I met a nice man from TSR and he gave me a stick of rock that says TSR on it :-D

Interested to hear about how SI has been...PM me if you don't want to post in here?

Reply 9073

Cirsium

19

Original post by *Interrobang*

How random but cool :tongue:

My stuff is now moved to my new place

Not as random as it sounds. I was at an education conference of sorts, and they were advertising a TSR spin off 'Get Revising'. I told the man that I had been on TSR since it was UKL and he was very impressed :p:

I too have moved to a new place. There are a lot of boxes. And I'm pretty sure there's a domestic violence case going on in the flat above :-/

Reply 9074

Helenia

20

First stage of my move to the Dark Side is underway!

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Reply 9075

The_Lonely_Goatherd

20

Original post by Helenia

First stage of my move to the ~~Dark~~ Best Side is underway!

Posted from TSR Mobile

Fixed for you :flute:

Reply 9076

Jantaculum

10

Original post by Helenia

First stage of my move to the Dark Side is underway!

Posted from TSR Mobile

I'm going the other way - even though there's 27 years between the two, I've still got a slight feeling of guilt :redface:

Reply 9077

sj27

14

I have only ever seen the light :angel:

Reply 9078

Craghyrax

17

Well, first Oxford demonstrated poor taste by throwing economics in with politics and philosophy, rather than something fun like sociology or anthropology. Then their Sociology MSc was overly quantitative, and finally - when I approached them with an open mind and applied for the DPhil - they rejected me! So all in all, they've only demonstrated unforgivably poor taste, which settles the matter :closedeyes:

Cambridge is clearly superior :p:

Reply 9079

Becca-Sarah

19

I applied for Oxford jobs because I thought I'd visited it previously. Turns out I may have been thinking of Cambridge... but at first impressions, they look rather similar :ninja:

GOGSoc Episode VI: The GoG, the Bad and the Ugly

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