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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by wolverine876 on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:14PM (#31758836)
A professor who had also worked in the private sector told me: In academia, everyone is smart and some of them are nice. In the private sector, everyone is nice and some of them are smart.
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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by dataflow on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:25PM (#31758973)
> In the private sector, everyone is nice

This doesn't really square with the horror stories I see from the private sector.

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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by wolverine876 on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:38PM (#31759149)
I don't think they meant it literally, but more in the sense of different places on the trade-off continuum: E.g., academia is willing to tolerate more bad behavior but less lack-of-smarts.
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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by doliveira on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:49PM (#31759292)
Everyone in the informal hyperbolic sense. Like 90%.

The remaining 10% are more than enough to account for the horror stories

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