My happy place this week, and a trip down memory lane
So this week I've been revisiting the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy, the longest running and deadliest motorcycle race in the world.
TT3D: Closer to the Edge is a very fun documentary made about the 2010 TT, spotlighting one racer in particular, Guy Martin, who is ... unique. (He was diagnosed a few years back as being on the autism spectrum.)
There is also Charge (which used to be on Netflix) and is about the 2010 electrical motorcycle race at the TT. It's also very funny in the sense that it shows everything that can go wrong with last minute engineering ... on top of all the other crazy of the TT.
If you have time, there are a bunch of other TT related features and documentaries on youtube.
And now for the Trip Down Memory Lane ...
So, it's about 10 or 11 years on from this event, which happened about the time M went from being a little scatterbrained but okay to work with to being just completely irrational and vindictive. But the way in which I think about it has changed.
M handed me CV and told me to get started on making entries. I pointed out that a huge section of it was editorial commentaries the faculty member made on the gaming industry for a local weekly newspaper. I emailed M and was told I was to include them even though they weren't peer-reviewed/scholarly, because the faculty member was an expert in the field so these were considered authoritative enough to be included.
So, I emailed said local newspaper, explained what the IR did (non-commercial, educational, U, etc.) and asked if I could include the full text of these pieces in the IR, but with a link out to the source material, so if somebody wanted to read it from the original source, they could. I explained that they would be credited as the publisher and thanked for giving us permission on every entry if they agreed. To my surprise they said yes, include the full text.
So, I created nearly 50 entries for these pieces alone, along with all his conference presentations, articles, etc. And, as part of SOP, I email him and CC M to let him know that his stuff is now in the IR and here's how to find it all in one place.
He goes to M and our Dean and he is fucking ballistic. According to him, by reprinting the full text we are jeopardizing his exclusive contract with the Weekly, and how dare we do that.
CC'ing the Dean, M comes at me #1 with: How come I didn't ask him what he did and didn't want from his CV posted?
Me: That's has never been our SOP. You solicited his CV. If he didn't want things on the IR, he should've left them off, or indicated in some way that some things should not be included. As you have instructed me not to contact the faculty except to let them know it's done, I did not contact him until it was done.
[Procedure at the time was at that all communications to faculty, except to say their entries were up, had to go through M]
CC'ing the Dean, M comes at me #2 with: How come you included non-peer reviewed materials? You know we don't put in non-peer reviewed items!
Me: Page ___ of our procedures manual says we do if you approve them. Here are the emails where you approved their inclusion.
CC'ing the Dean, M comes at me #3 with: How come you included the full text of copyrighted material? This isn't a publisher with a known, openly stated permissions policy! You have put the the library into a position of liability! We could be sued!
Me: Here are the emails where the publisher gave me permission. The paper copies are in the file cabinet.
A part of me will always be frustrated and angry that this was not the point at which she got shitcanned, had her duties reassigned, or suddenly ended up with an office in the Hall of Shame. She tried to blame this on me 3 times and was caught out all 3. Or at the very least, she came off as looking super-mega incompetent and unable to remember the general content of emails she sent within the past month. But you can't get rid of people on the tenure track that way.
It was the point at which I was super grateful that -- for my own record keeping purposes because M was scatterbrained -- I had been documenting everything, every step of the way. I realized that going forward I was going to have to be extremely meticulous about this going forward. It was about 3 months later that I created the "Book of M" to document every conversation I had with her.
But ... as I look back on the whole thing, right now, I'm not sick with rage/frustration the way I used to be. The overwhelming emotion I feel is one of utter contempt.
M: what a sad, pathetic, slimy, little Ted Cruz cunt of a woman.
TT3D: Closer to the Edge is a very fun documentary made about the 2010 TT, spotlighting one racer in particular, Guy Martin, who is ... unique. (He was diagnosed a few years back as being on the autism spectrum.)
There is also Charge (which used to be on Netflix) and is about the 2010 electrical motorcycle race at the TT. It's also very funny in the sense that it shows everything that can go wrong with last minute engineering ... on top of all the other crazy of the TT.
If you have time, there are a bunch of other TT related features and documentaries on youtube.
And now for the Trip Down Memory Lane ...
So, it's about 10 or 11 years on from this event, which happened about the time M went from being a little scatterbrained but okay to work with to being just completely irrational and vindictive. But the way in which I think about it has changed.
M handed me CV and told me to get started on making entries. I pointed out that a huge section of it was editorial commentaries the faculty member made on the gaming industry for a local weekly newspaper. I emailed M and was told I was to include them even though they weren't peer-reviewed/scholarly, because the faculty member was an expert in the field so these were considered authoritative enough to be included.
So, I emailed said local newspaper, explained what the IR did (non-commercial, educational, U, etc.) and asked if I could include the full text of these pieces in the IR, but with a link out to the source material, so if somebody wanted to read it from the original source, they could. I explained that they would be credited as the publisher and thanked for giving us permission on every entry if they agreed. To my surprise they said yes, include the full text.
So, I created nearly 50 entries for these pieces alone, along with all his conference presentations, articles, etc. And, as part of SOP, I email him and CC M to let him know that his stuff is now in the IR and here's how to find it all in one place.
He goes to M and our Dean and he is fucking ballistic. According to him, by reprinting the full text we are jeopardizing his exclusive contract with the Weekly, and how dare we do that.
CC'ing the Dean, M comes at me #1 with: How come I didn't ask him what he did and didn't want from his CV posted?
Me: That's has never been our SOP. You solicited his CV. If he didn't want things on the IR, he should've left them off, or indicated in some way that some things should not be included. As you have instructed me not to contact the faculty except to let them know it's done, I did not contact him until it was done.
[Procedure at the time was at that all communications to faculty, except to say their entries were up, had to go through M]
CC'ing the Dean, M comes at me #2 with: How come you included non-peer reviewed materials? You know we don't put in non-peer reviewed items!
Me: Page ___ of our procedures manual says we do if you approve them. Here are the emails where you approved their inclusion.
CC'ing the Dean, M comes at me #3 with: How come you included the full text of copyrighted material? This isn't a publisher with a known, openly stated permissions policy! You have put the the library into a position of liability! We could be sued!
Me: Here are the emails where the publisher gave me permission. The paper copies are in the file cabinet.
A part of me will always be frustrated and angry that this was not the point at which she got shitcanned, had her duties reassigned, or suddenly ended up with an office in the Hall of Shame. She tried to blame this on me 3 times and was caught out all 3. Or at the very least, she came off as looking super-mega incompetent and unable to remember the general content of emails she sent within the past month. But you can't get rid of people on the tenure track that way.
It was the point at which I was super grateful that -- for my own record keeping purposes because M was scatterbrained -- I had been documenting everything, every step of the way. I realized that going forward I was going to have to be extremely meticulous about this going forward. It was about 3 months later that I created the "Book of M" to document every conversation I had with her.
But ... as I look back on the whole thing, right now, I'm not sick with rage/frustration the way I used to be. The overwhelming emotion I feel is one of utter contempt.
M: what a sad, pathetic, slimy, little Ted Cruz cunt of a woman.