Toxic Administration - Anonymous employee UCLA Employee Review

1.0
Mar 20, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you're a worker bee or toxic long-timer, you can't get fired! You can be as incompetent and evil as you wish, and no one will do anything to you.

Cons

Cuckoo long-timers can make all the racist, sexist, slanderous comments they want and never face the music. It's a hostile work environment to pretty much anyone you can think of. I was even bullied by senior management at a department function in front of everyone for correctly answering a question posed to the group. Many people who work there have never worked anywhere else, or at least have been there for many years. It's no surprise they resent anyone new bringing in industry best practices, even if they get great results. This isn't where you go to grow. It's where you go to collect a pension and die -- bitter and intellectually emaciated.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Relatively poor pay and pay inequities. Extremely poor fiscal management - that CFO who was fired for outing it was spot on. Senior administrators and faculty are incentivized to spend a lot of money on things that serve few students and hoard resources to make themselves look good for performance reviews and tenure committees, but it means a lot of extra work gets dumped on a growing a number of mid-level administrators and support staff - who now face layoffs or added workloads. It's all strangling the university's ability to serve its students, but I know several faculty members simply don't care about students or teaching.

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