Adjunct professors unionize, revealing deeper malaise in higher ed

[malthaussen]

21. Yeah, you'll get that.

I was so unfortunate as to have an ideological conflict with a prof teaching a course that I was required to take. Even though I was careful to mind my manners, it didn't end well.

As for "refusing to retire," I'd imagine those with longer experience are more in sympathy with the librarian in question than younger people wanting to progress. Given the economic situation today, one might find retirement fiscally impossible, or difficult. Also, for many people their work is their life. What are they going to do if they retire? Our society is simply not equipped to deal with the reality of a large number of older people who aren't working; and if they are working, then they clog up the machinery for younger people in the same career-track. I doubt there's a solution, short of some kind of Swiftian proposal.

-- Mal