The huge advantage of Teams meetings is that if I'm not required to contribute I can either sort out a few simpler emails, run boring and time-consuming queries on the student records system, or crochet. This has enormously reduced my frustration at having to go to collegial forum-type meetings which take 2 hours and are supposed about building networks across the Faculty but actually involve one of the higher-ups telling us about agile learning for forty-five minutes before we even get to breakout groups-and-report-back.
As always, people unable to grasp the subtleties between 'right to free speech' and 'saying whatever crap I like'. If asked in a survey, I would have to say that yes, I 'censor myself' on social media (for example) because of worries about losing my job. By which I mean I don't post things like 'some students could have done with an A level in Reading The Exam Rubric' or, as someone remarked to me (privately) after a particularly tedious meeting this week 'having your head so far up your arse you can see daylight is not a protected EDI characteristic'. I don't think any of that is a FREE SPEECH!!!! I'M BEING OPPRESSED!!! issue. It's basic professionalism.
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As always, people unable to grasp the subtleties between 'right to free speech' and 'saying whatever crap I like'. If asked in a survey, I would have to say that yes, I 'censor myself' on social media (for example) because of worries about losing my job. By which I mean I don't post things like 'some students could have done with an A level in Reading The Exam Rubric' or, as someone remarked to me (privately) after a particularly tedious meeting this week 'having your head so far up your arse you can see daylight is not a protected EDI characteristic'. I don't think any of that is a FREE SPEECH!!!! I'M BEING OPPRESSED!!! issue. It's basic professionalism.