Is that they might say ‘yes.’
And they might be academics (and therefore pay badly) and be computer literate enough to be able to google the fact that I might not want to work for that salary for the four years that their funding lasts….
So, I’ll not say anything, except that [edited]
Anyway, I think the major point is that I‘ve been ‘conditionally’ offered a job. I’m both very happy and desperate to know what the hell ‘conditionally’ means.
Song playing as this was published: PJ Harvey - “Angelene”
It means your background check is not in yet.
Ryan: Indeed it is not…. But would this be the right time and place to state my faith in our Saviour, the LORD Jesus Christ?
I think it would……
If only poor pay was the one and only worry. Don’t forget about all the extras that come with academic bureaucracies. Supplies are ordered only after weeks, maintenance needs to be called thrice, unpaid overtime is expected and then there is this on the high horse attitude: We here at x university are not scheming money-making devils like our colleagues in industry. Nothing could be further from our minds than Immoral behaviour or lack of professional ethics.
But hey, a job offer is always a good thing and there’s the Salvation Army if you can’t make ends meet.
Btw, there’s an interesting article on one of Germany’s best paid spin doctors on Spiegel Online: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,459450,00.html
Should I say “congratulations”? Ah! Now can you believe in some supernatural help? I do! : P
Is this job abroad or aboad the SS Great Britain?
Conditionally well done
JCS: Ooh, I’d forgotten about the joy of ordering supplies. Do you think underfunded British Unis will be better or worse than MPIs? Actually, don’t answer that.
Talking about ordering things, am I allowed to say that a group at the Weizmann Institute once made me pay $100 “handling costs” to send me a piece of plasmid-spotted filter paper by normal mail? Probably not.
Oh, and thanks for the article. Disturbingly truthful.
Priscila: No, no congratulations until I have signed pieces of paper.
Haddock: Think of it as being in a lifeboat being winched off a sinking SS Great Britain…
TM: A conditional “Thank you.”
“in a lifeboat being winched off a sinking SS Great Britain”
The Isle of Man?
David: Yes, let’s say the Isle of Man, rather than name the employer, shall we? That said. I don’t think it’s any secret that my long-term plans probably lie elsewhere. But who knows, our capital counts as a foreign country for all intents and purposes - and I don’t have to tell you that I think that’s a Good Thing.