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06/30/2004 Archived Entry: "Email"
The jerks at UDM are now pulling my email next week. Jesus H. You think that they could leave it until my new email at Wayne is set up? Nope. Don't let anyone fool you: the Jesuits are not nice people. Anything for revenge. This is just one tiny thing compared to the other crap they've been pulling. Don't take a job at UDM and don't send your kids there. Not worth it.
In the meantime, if you try and reach me and can't, you can always get me at ydog at ydog.net.
Other news: My article “The 1963 Composition Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Computed, or Demonstrated by any Other Means of Technology" has been accepted at Composition Studies and might be out sometime next year.
Replies: 6 comments
Hey Collin. No thanks. I have plenty of email accounts. I'm just pissed over the inconvenience and lack of a university account in the meantime. But really, just the attitude irks me more than anything. It's no bother to them to behave normally. But they can't do it.
Posted by jeff @ 07/01/2004 10:07 AM EST
Jeff, you want a gmail account? I got my account a few months ago from a friend who works at Google, and I don't use it for much, but I've got a handful of invites I can use...
collin
Posted by cgb @ 07/01/2004 02:15 AM EST
Let me clarify that last point:
I say this in public because I did a hell of a lot of work, volunteered for every single committee, wrote a $100,000 grant with no time to really work it through (and gave up a vacation to do it), and always went beyond what I was asked to do during my two year stint. I also brought the Writing Program back to life and did a lot of good stuff that may or may not hold once I'm gone. And I offered to do a lot of stuff after my contract expired even though I wasn't required to - including helping find a replacement.
In return, I had money taken back from me that was by agreement due to me and have been seriously inconvenienced for all kinds of other things. So in all seriousness, I'm not just saying that there are problems there. I'm feeling it as an act of revenge. I've been told point blank that revenge was the motivating factor for trying to make things tough for me - revenge for basically moving up to a better job, and one down the road. Maybe if I left the city, they would think differently. Who knows. But they have not repaid me with much kindness since I resigned. So take my words as a reaction to what has become an unnecessarily ugly situation. They have burned their own bridges by doing all this - we could have maintained good working relationships between the two writing programs.
Posted by j @ 06/30/2004 01:34 PM EST
I've got plenty of email, but I need an academic one in order to keep my credibility up when I get "mean" on WPA and TechRhet.
:)
UDM is a crappy place to work. Students need to get out of there too.
Posted by j @ 06/30/2004 11:31 AM EST
If you need a server on which to park stuff, let me know. I'm sorry to hear that some folks at UDM are being putzes. Later this summer, you can tell me the details over a glass of Bell's.
That's a fine title. I'm looking forward to that piece. And since academic publishing moves so slowly, you better start planning now to place "The 1963 Composition Revolution, 50 Years Later."
Posted by cbd @ 06/30/2004 11:04 AM EST
Dear Jeff,
You're gonna get it good! Watch your back!
Posted by The Jesuits @ 06/30/2004 11:02 AM EST