I'm going to create a separate category on my calendar to keep track of the time I spend fighting bad actors in econ. So much time. Time I don't get to spend on research. The number of hours is going on my annual report next year.
The most strategic bad guys know that wasting people's time is the best way to win. FOIAing emails, sending scary-sounding letters from their lawyer to your chair/provost/GC so that you get called into meetings. Eventually, they figure, you'll cut your losses and give up.
In the meantime, the costs get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And when some junior person comes to me in a year saying they've been harassed by a different bad guy, I think about all that before helping them fight. Do I really want to commit another gazillion hours?
New calendar name: Fighting bad guys.
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