adjunct pay whine

[Jordan Hayes]

>> Every TA I ever had grumbled like you do.  I'm sure every TA you
>> had did too.  
> 
> If you've ever taught a class, Jordan, or done any kind of grunt-level
> service job, you would know why they (and we) grumble: it's difficult,
> exhausting, mentally taxing work.

Sure, I've done all that and more (let me tell you about cleaning
a bakery at 2am sometime; I think I still have flour under my
fingernails).  And now that my job is not grunt-level or in the
service economy, it's still difficult, exhausting, mentally taxing.

But that wasn't my point.

My point is/was that Yoshie's claim that she wasn't told that it
was going to suck is specious: she had plenty of people around her
who were just a few years from where she was.  And none of them
would be in the business of hiding it from her (just as she's not
in the business of hiding it from us ...).

/jordan