October 14, 2013

Bad habits...

The professional services department I've worked in at the University of Northampton has a habit of bringing in people on contracts, getting them to do huge amounts of work, bullying them and then sacking them when they finish projects. People get thrown to the dogs as soon as they finish big jobs, then the incompetent managers pick apart the work of that person and use them as scapegoats for their own incompetence. It happens every few months! You would think after a while people would catch on but the bullying culture of the department means that colleagues do nothing to support each other. Everyone is out for themselves. I've spent months medicated in order to cope. The managers are just ridiculous, they can't make decisions for themselves and change the rules and the goals constantly. They don't have experience in higher education either, so they don't even know some of the basics of working in HE. HR is useless, they are only there to support the same bullying managers time and on.

Anonymous

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a University Department where I used to work!
I retired, and my health is better for it.

Anonymous said...

Yup. That sounds familiar. The place I used to teach at was like it, particularly my department. It's as if people made movies like "The Road Warrior" training films.

Anonymous said...

Add in a restructure or two and yes, it's exactly the same here. Except the ridiculous managers (cronies of the VC) do make decisions, which even the most junior staff can see are wrong from the offset.
HR full of empty promises...