#PrecarityStory #snapshotsinPrecarity #UCUStrikesBack Precarity is -- When HR forgets to pay you (which, weirdly, happens a lot), YOU have to apply for ‘an advance’ even though the payment error was their fault. All the burden is on you, not the other way around. 1/n
When HR underpays you, you have to live on not enough money for the next month. Or months, because sometimes it happens again. But the flexibility is great: you can work in 2010, go away, live your life, come back in 2018 with another degree and more experience
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and get paid *exactly* the same amount for your hourly work. Which means getting paid less in real wages, of course, and that's not even counting the work you do for free. 3/n
Of course, the flexibility is for them, not you: Just because they told you you’d be teaching in the fall doesn’t mean you will – and you might not find out til the Friday before term starts. Heads of School don’t do this on purpose, and neither (probably) does HR: 4/n
it’s the natural outcome of running an entire HE system on the premise of casualized employment, oversupply of workers, and an assumption that any body (trained or not, teaching in their field or not) can suit up and walk into a classroom with a few days notice. 5/n
Precarity: bad for staff and instructors. bad for the students. Good for...universities who care more about student satisfaction than students and more about buildings than anything. #PrecarityStory #UCUStrikesBack 6/n
