On Jul 20, 5:17 pm, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 20, 6:51 pm, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [...] if in the > > future a particular department got a reputation for exploiting its > > post-docs, it would have a harder time hiring people. Word gets > > around pretty fast. > > I would like to shoot down your blind faith in market efficiency :-) > > http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2010/06/22/something-deeply-wrong-with-...
Well, this is a blog about chemistry, and for all I know, this sort of thing is (or was) common for chemistry post-docs. Also, since hiring, job expectations, etc., for postdocs are set at the department level in math, I still believe that makes it harder for this to happen. You also snipped out my comment that "since I think the situation in math is okay now", it would be hard for a department to start exploiting its postdocs. The job market in math is very far from perfect, but I think the way we treat our postdocs is far from the weakest point right now. From everything I've heard, I would much rather be a post-doc (or grad student) in math than in a lab science. Anyway, this is all getting way off topic... -- John -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
