Thursday, March 1, 2012

I'm at work and am glad I didn't have to unbury my car for my laaate-3pm lunch. Coordination meetng didn't get out until then and I was just busy, busy, busy. I had to edit 2 student's papers. I didn't mind before until they gave me regular hours at the academic success center without paying me anything extra. My Dean keeps wanting me to teach classes other than the information literacy sessions. NOOO NOT if my salary stays where it is now. I'm glad my brother worked here before. I know my company enjoys allocating additional responsibilities, what I don't want is this continuing to happen without sufficient compensation. I'll edit for some of my friends but NOT repeatedly AND I've done it enough that I expect to be compensated WELL. Some students take a LOT of work AND I'm just not willing to do that anymore unless I get paid sufficiently for my time and expertise.
I used to edit instructor profiles for my friend Tiffany at work. I was VERY clear when I did that the first time that I didn't want ANYONE knowing I did that. BUT she still asked me if I would proof read something for the fair our medical students were handing out. I refused and told her once I had a job where I helped edit work and it started to become ridiculous because EVERYONE would give me their work to review. It would've been fine if a nice fat salary went along with that but it didn't. Sooo I vowed NEVER to get in that situation again and I haven't.
Today she came to the library looking for books on proofreading. If her hope was I'd volunteer, she needs to lose that mentality real quick.

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