Don't care what the issue, Grimes is... - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: May 17, 2005

Don't care what the issue, Grimes is...

Date: May 17, 2005

Cheer up! We've got several more over in dome worse than Grimes. Hard to believe, but true. We won't even get into deans.

The good news is that the bullpen must be really, really thin this year.

Date: May 17, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: News Is
"A completely and horribly wretched administrator this man is."

Is that you, Yoda?

Date: May 18, 2005

After visited the COB to smooth things over from his own Black Friday memo, he told staff members in the dome how he snuck up on some secretaries in Greene Hall and had them shaking in their shoes. No one in Greene Hall was execting his visit there and he was bragging about how the mighty Provost had everyone frightened when he showed up.

Date: May 18, 2005

That's pitiful. What a small person.

Date: May 18, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: dome worker
"After visited the COB to smooth things over from his own Black Friday memo, he told staff members in the dome how he snuck up on some secretaries in Greene Hall and had them shaking in their shoes. No one in Greene Hall was execting his visit there and he was bragging about how the mighty Provost had everyone frightened when he showed up."

I am terribly disappointed with Jay Grimes as a provost and as a person. Nonetheless, I don't believe this.

Date: May 18, 2005

As a previous secretary in the COB I can assure you all this is true. The secretaries on the third floor seem to break all the time and no one cares. If they aren't on their infamous breaks then you can't find them and offices are left wide open. Others in the building can not leave their offices without getting yelled at and must wait for someone, student workers, to come cover the office/phones before even being allowed to go to the restroom. On the day in question, the third floor secretaries were having cake and laughing it up. One of the ladies actually offered Grimes a piece of cake. This has been going on long before Gunther or Doty were Dean. It's been said that one of the ladies will not last when Williams steps down this summer. But then again, it's all about brown nosing.

Date: May 18, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: EXstaffer
"As a previous secretary in the COB I can assure you all this is true. The secretaries on the third floor seem to break all the time and no one cares. If they aren't on their infamous breaks then you can't find them and offices are left wide open. Others in the building can not leave their offices without getting yelled at and must wait for someone, student workers, to come cover the office/phones before even being allowed to go to the restroom. On the day in question, the third floor secretaries were having cake and laughing it up. One of the ladies actually offered Grimes a piece of cake. This has been going on long before Gunther or Doty were Dean. It's been said that one of the ladies will not last when Williams steps down this summer. But then again, it's all about brown nosing."

This may or may not be true, but the fact is that even if staff aren't doing their jobs, it is a horrifying story. The provost has no business going around bragging about scaring secretaries out of their wits. Doesn't he have any dignity?

Date: May 18, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Coast Guard
"I am terribly disappointed with Jay Grimes as a provost and as a person. Nonetheless, I don't believe this."

I dont know about the constant breaking in the other post, but this story is VERY TRUE and fairly well known in the college now.

Date: May 18, 2005

ExStaffer is 100% correct. I have also heard that there has been two EEOC complaints against two administrators and one OSHA complaint against one of the two administrators. Result was that both EEOC and OSHA ruled in favor of the two staff members. Most inside the CoB would enjoy learning which ones have to take leave when they are not on campus and which ones do not have the rules applied to them. This is true for both faculty and staff.

Date: May 18, 2005

I'm told Grimes never finished his Greene Hall tour to "smooth things over with faculty" like he promised. Heard the few meetings he did have did not go so well and that he may have been timid about facing a college-wide audience in an auditorium like he planned.

Date: May 18, 2005

I wonder why the hiring of USM COB graduates has been reduce in the business community of Mississippi. Could it be that the PROFS are not teaching anything? The PROFS blame it on poor students. Some business types beleve that the PROFS are spending too much time on the SFT issue and not teaching. I am sure AAUP has the answer.

Date: May 18, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: JoJo
"I wonder why the hiring of USM COB graduates has been reduce in the business community of Mississippi. Could it be that the PROFS are not teaching anything? The PROFS blame it on poor students. Some business types beleve that the PROFS are spending too much time on the SFT issue and not teaching. I am sure AAUP has the answer."

Might be an interesting question JoJoke, if it were true. Trouble is, it's not but then you already knew that.

Date: May 18, 2005

FF, you need to check your facts. The most important requirement in the COB is a good golf handicap.

Date: May 18, 2005

According to Mr. Anderson, Director of USM career services, the COB had the best hiring year ever. In fact, I heard a number of students received job offers on the spot. I wish my college provided the same level of effort.

Date: May 18, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: JoJO
"FF, you need to check your facts. The most important requirement in the COB is a good golf handicap."

What? The students with good golf handicaps aren't getting jobs in the Mississippi business community - think your threads are getting tangled up.

Date: May 18, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: JoJo
" I am sure AAUP has the answer."

JoJo - Your understanding of AAUP's mission leaves something to be desired.

Date: May 18, 2005

Dang, we're out of flit. Maybe one of those electric back-year bug zappers might work.

Date: May 18, 2005

The "Academy" does not like critical thinking. Fit in a cute litle mold and you will survive.

Date: May 18, 2005

No answer from our best and brightest???

Date: May 18, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: JoJo
"I wonder why the hiring of USM COB graduates has been reduce in the business community of Mississippi. Could it be that the PROFS are not teaching anything? The PROFS blame it on poor students. Some business types beleve that the PROFS are spending too much time on the SFT issue and not teaching. I am sure AAUP has the answer."

The professors are teaching just as much as in the past, but they're now working in an environment in which they are demoralized, beaten down, and worried about their personal futures and the futures of their school and university. Would you like to work in an environment like that, JoJo? Or do you just enjoy watching other people suffer under such conditions?

Date: May 18, 2005

Symp, the best and brightest are too good and too smart to respond to him. As for me, I took a pledge.

Date: May 18, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: LVN
"Symp, the best and brightest are too good and too smart to respond to him. As for me, I took a pledge."

Thanks, LVN. I haven't responded to him before now, and probably won't again, but thought I'd ask him an honest question. Now let's see whether, and how, HE will respond.

Date: May 19, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: JoJo
"No answer from our best and brightest???"

JoJoke is the one who has ignored what he/she has already been told. Graduate recruitment and placement in COB is up, not down, so the premise underlying his/her argument is false on its face.