a) To start off, everyone including the students, admin department, finance department, higher authorities, fellow faculty members and even the security guards treat you like scum. There is no respect for a faculty member whatsoever.
b) Being an Asst Prof (Grade 1/2), you are provided with a world class CRT monitor which is not used even in the minimally funded govt/public/private schools or colleges. Imagine the scope of doing research on a computer where you don't have any admin rights to install any software or even change your wallpaper!
c) Accessing the internet through Cyberoam which not only does not let you access any news websites (except TOI; seems like TOI is the only subscription they could afford), it also doesn't provide you access to shopping websites, entertainment websites or in case any Ebook needs to be downloaded for any course. It's funny Facebook is open for all. Seems like even the IT/ admin people can't resist Facebooking! (although you would still not be able to read certain articles if you are redirected from Facebook to another website like Scoopwhoop/Storypick which is so bloody irritating!)
d) Every year, a sum of 2000 is deducted from the salary which goes God knows where (it seems to go in the pockets of some 'sansthan' managers), when you would have felt better donating the same to a charity that you would have liked to support and you would be sure that the money is put to a good cause. The worst part is that some of it is deducted even from the salary of guards and sweepers!
e) To avail a duty leave (which everyone is entitled to 10 leaves per year), you need to go around and submit an application which goes through 3 levels of approval and at the final level, it might be possible that somewhere the application got lost and you need to re submit it and wait for the 3-level approval again (seems like the Office-Office scenario!) Is the approval easy to get? No way! You submit around 10-15 pages with your application and if the dates of your workshop/conference happen to be around student exams, then your application will be rejected because then who would be doing the invigilation!?
f) So, coming to the invigilation duties. You would get lot of them and more than everybody else if your name start from a 'AA' ! Students have exams thrice a semester, so you would be getting at least 20 invigilation duties per semester (Note: You are mad if you expect any refreshment or extra salary for the same!) along with several instances of senior faculty members bullying and embarrassing you during those invigilations.
g) A junior faculty member (one who is unmarried) is considered to have lots and lots of free time. So anytime a sacrifice (in terms of the HOD) is required, only these people are approached when most of the senior faculty members are laughing behind their backs and applauding themselves for not being the 'Bakra'.
h) You get access to an awesome in house canteen that serves crappy chowmein and doesn't know the difference between the 'chole' of 'chole' kulche and 'chole' bhature. They also sport a 'Dish of the day' board which is ALWAYS blank! Your only resort is to go for a full thali meal at the Institute mess (which might be the reason the canteen isn't allowed to be good) or just go outside for a meal.
i) If you are getting a four wheeler for the first time in the institute, then you are doomed. No entry in the institute (although that depends on your luck with the guards, according to some Mr. Colonel) is allowed even if you have been coming daily to the institute and have your faculty card. So next time you get a new car, you better not take it to the institute on the next day. Get the damn sticker first, then only you get an entry or risk your new car by parking it outside where the thefts happen often. This is not just for a new car, this is also applicable if there is an emergency at your home and you had to take another car which doesn't have their damned parking sticker. Rules are good but they should be the same for everyone, seems liked senior faculty members get a leeway in this case.
j) You get a preference list which can be filled to teach the course of your choice in any semester. But if you think your preferences are taken into account, then yes they are, but in the opposite order! So the senior faculty members get to teach M.Tech courses (where the student count and workload is much low) and the junior ones get to teach B.Tech courses having almost double the number of students with lots of workload involved). And sometimes, being the junior and hardworking member that you are, you could be allotted more than one course too and then just get drowned with the workload and a shitty timetable!
k) You are allotted a shared cabin (with 1 or 3 more faculty members) unless you are a PhD with several years of experience. And if you are the junior most faculty, then God help you! The cabin is crowded with 3 more people, 1 of which might turn out to be eccentric and 'forget' to lock the cabin risking the stuff of 3 more people in the cabin. You get one almirah with a lock to keep ALL the answer sheets of 3 exams in a semester for all 90/120/150 students you might be teaching. Oh, did I mention the said almirah might even fall on your head if it is overloaded!? The other unlocked almirah that you get which consumes the space remaining space in your shared cabin is supposed to carry project files, assignments and what not. You just can't think about adding a personal touch to the workplace.
To be continued...
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