HD would prefer to punish dissent that deal with the real problems that confront CBED.  Sadly, many of us have concluded that he is not intellectually or professionally equipped to do anything else.

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Originally posted by: Kid
"HD would prefer to punish dissent that deal with the real problems that confront CBED.  Sadly, many of us have concluded that he is not intellectually or professionally equipped to do anything else."

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Originally posted by: truth4usm/AH
"To be honest, I think that's a little crazy to expect your office mail to be mailed to your home address.  Doesn't sound right to me."

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The problem arises when the professor in question is not teaching during the summer and H-Do (thanks, 98, for the J-Lo reference) sends correspondence directly to the professor (not the usual, run-of-the-mill mail we all get every day) regarding the appeal.  Some of the mail is time sensitive, and H-Do's refusal to comply with the professor's request (I believe he has asked nicely at least 10 times) makes H-Do look like he is using stall tactics.  On at least one occasion, H-Do has refused to pick up certified mail sent to H-Do by the professor so that he could delay the start of the FOIA/MORA request.

If H-Do is serious about clearing the CBED air, he should stop using petty tactics.  Any reasonable request (such as this one with the reimbursement promise included) should be honored...it's just the way you treat people you work with.

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Originally posted by: Johnny Mack
"Actually, the professor in question has offered several times to reimburse the college for postage expenses incurred from mailing his correspondence to his home address; according to one of my sources, H-Do has said that the professor can (to paraphrase) "pick up his mail at school like everybody else.""

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Johnny Mack,

So you think you've got it bad. I wonder if anyone from my department recalls that one of our former deans (not in CBED) required that when a faculty member wrote letters of recommendation for  graduate students, the students were to provide the postage stamps. Talk about nickle and diming the students! Further, the only duplicating machine in the department, short of a primitive spirit duplicator which printed in that messy purple ink (and did not work), was in the dean's office where the department was required to purchase copy services at a rate of X cents per copy. Now that's what I used to call creative financing. We eventually spotted an old abandoned duplicator in Surplus, and we had them haul it over to the department. When the word got out that our department had acquired an old duplicator from that source, the department was quite the talk of the town. I sometimes wondered why our department remained in the business of higher education. At those times, I told myself: "Cheer up. Things could get worse." So I cheered up. And, sure enough, got worse. Much worse. Sounds to me like the CBED faculty has a good thing going. It could be worse. Believe me. Thanx, Johnny Mack, for bringing back nostalgic memories of the good old days.

Mack the Knife

I don't complain when I get information about what's going on around campus.  As someone pointed out on another thread, what happens to one of us can happen to all of us. 

By the way, if a Tenure and Promotion Committee uses words like arbitrary and seriously flawed to describe on faculty's evaluation, and a Dean takes no action, we all should want to know what's going on.  It could be any of us. It could be all of us.

So, if you don't want to know what other faculty are dealing with across campus, just delete the emails.  Not everyone thinks it's trash.

 

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Originally posted by: No Call List
" Yeah, I get that message from credit card companies, magazine publishers, and other mass mailing nuisances - not sure why I have to take action so as not to be bombarded with trash."

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This still seems weird to me...if the professor is so concerned with getting the sensitive mail, shouldn't he be willing to come into the office to get it?  And if it's a legal matter and really that sensitive, shouldn't all of the correspondence go through legal counsel?  Sounds like both sides are putting up obstacles to me.

(DISCLAIMER:  I don't know any of the people in this scenario, neither faculty nor administrators, personally or professionally, i.e. I have no axe to grind in this fight.)

Understand this, if he gave the secretary those envelopes, said secretary would be instructed still to slot the correspondence in the mailbox instead of using the envelopes.  That's the modus here.

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Originally posted by: LFO
"Understand this, if he gave the secretary those envelopes, said secretary would be instructed still to slot the correspondence in the mailbox instead of using the envelopes.  That's the modus here."

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Don't mean to beat this dead horse, but again, couldn't the professor just drop by the office and pick up his mail?  It seems like the professor is more interested in drawing lines in the sand than actually acheiving his goal...to get the letters.  I'm not saying that the dean is right in doing this, but if the objective is to get the letters, then this seems to be a simple solution.  Perhaps in the future, the professor should just use simple reverse psychology and tell them that he'll only accept mail in his office mailbox (then, they'll send it to his home address!).

Again, if this is litigation-related, couldn't the professor's legal counsel be consulted to see what would be the best way to get correspondence?  Also, I know that there are mediation services available through the EEOC office...sounds like this would be a perfect solution for this professor and his boss.

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Originally posted by: All's (un)fair
"Don't forget that this is the professor who referred to his "boss" in the (in)famous "book" in the most derogatory of racial terms.  There are some old resentments being played out in new ways.  He enjoys playing e-mail and postal mail games.  Most believe that this is yet another one.  There is no "litigation" at this point  only university business.  Arguably, university business takes place on campus.  There's an old saying that if enough people tell you that you have a tail, you should turn around and look for it."

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Looks like H-Do's "Canebrake Posse" is back out again, fighting on his behalf and doing what they have to do to get a big merit raise this week.  That is, when they're not washing the family cars.

Canebrake Posse --- small cadre of CBED "soldiers" who live in Canebrake and spend their days/nights monitoring this board on H-Do's behalf.

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Originally posted by: Mailman
"Why is a dean involved in this anyway? If the dean sends mail to a faculty member's departmental mailbox, it is the department chair, not the dean, who would do the forwarded. That's the least a chair could do for a faculty member who so requests. The chair might delegate such a task to a secretary, but it should be forwarded. "

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I agree with you here, Mailman.  This just seems unnecessarily complicated.

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You got it, all 4 one.  Don't those guys have some grass to cut, some cars to wash, or maybe some laundry to do for H-Do?  I saw "Bow Wow Buckshot" yesterday.  He looked ready to valet park H-Do's Excursion.