Re:The Story of Why I Left Riot Games
by HarryHirsch on Monday August 27, 2018 @08:10PM
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Indeed. There was the recent scandal about this Swiss astronomer who told a graduate student of hers that "she is like the hired help, she needs to perform". The level of abuse reached such heights that they actually closed her institute. I guess I'm saying that there are limits, and these limits hold even if the emotions do not run high.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/swiss-university-diss... makes it sound like there was a lot more going on than one comment:
> The accusers’ identities have not been made public, but—according to the NZZ report—students charged that Carollo expected “superhuman commitment,” including being reachable on weekends, rarely taking vacations, and participating in evening meetings that would sometimes go until midnight. According to the report, Carollo would criticize students’ postures and tell them to spend less time on makeup and more on research. The article says that one-third of Carollo’s Ph.D. students failed to graduate, and many of her postdocs left the field after they failed to publish enough papers.