Well. . .
After 32 years in ESL/EFL, most of them spent teaching and advising, and the past decade spent as an administrator, fighting for what is right, I have been railroaded, PIP-ed, set up with a no-win, Kobiyashi Maru scenario, and I was fired, let go, terminated for failing to achieve the standards they never even set. Let me repeat that: Standards they never even set! I was unfortunate enough to be the only one who was willing to run the program I worked in as a teacher for ten years. Twice before, i had been enticed with managerial positions, but I wisely surmised that these positions ampunted to nothing less than bending over and willingly let them mount me to "service my account," as Carlin would say, on a daily basis. I turned "them" down twice, but this third time, they got me on principle. I wanted to protect my program, my students, my adjunct instructors, my full timers. In the end, that is what they used to unceremoniously shove me out the door. I took that ...