Oh, boo-hoo! Honestly... I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a group of employees as prone to whining, self-pity, and self-inflation (not to mention inattentive and rude as audience members) as educators... and I’m speaking as a teacher who’s teaching at the high school level, and who’s taught at the college level!
I suppose I should clarify: the older, union-member teachers are the real problem... and they’re more than willing to throw their young and/or 1st/2nd-year colleagues onto the unemployment line, if only it gains them a few percentage points of salary/benefits increase. It honestly makes me sick; some of the best teachers I’ve ever seen (who were new) were let go because the loaf-around-while-pretending-to-be-overworked older faculty (most of whom were union officers or reps) didn’t want to sacrifice any possible gains for themselves.
A great many tenured college profs are under-worked, overpaid blowhards that compliment each other on being brilliant while pumping liberal bs into the skulls full of mush entrusted to them. I grew up with a dear friend who became a liberal arts phd and is now nearly unrecognizable and intolerable.