How old are you, 19, 20? Have you ever held a job in the real world, this so-called Earth you speak about? You want to talk about fair? You want to talk about having earned something and not seeing any of it? Have you ever taught a class? Have you ever been employed by an educational institution and been responsible for a bunch of cheating, grade-obsessed loonies? I have done all of these things.
The truth is that you live in a fantasy world. A world where you expect a pat on the back for every little thing you do. A perfect world where your reward correlates directly to the effort you put in. A world where your performance is always graded absolutely relative to your peers' performance. A world in which, when a little bit of reality seeps in, as it has done in this case, you go batsh|t when something beyond your control happens to frighten you and literally turn your world upside down.
Seeing as I'm a non-traditional, I've had much more experience in this "REAL WORLD" that you speak about than most med students on this board. Throughout college I have held a full time position as a Regional Sales Manager of a medical supply company. I am responsible for leading a small sales team, accomplishing objectives, motivating the team, providing incentives, and meeting deadlines and quotas.
Dream world? Wrong buddy, my sales associates sign contracts, and in them their compensation package is CLEARLY stated and defined, so that there is no ambiguity and if one of my employees disputes their compensation I can referr back to that. It is a PERFECT analogy to the situation. If I tell an employee he will earn 2% of total sales once he goes over $50,000 for the month, and when I goto issue his commission check I say, "Well, you did in fact bring in $65,700 this month, however, I didn't really think your work was consistent with the 2% compensation I promised you, so I'm keeping you at the standard 1.5%..." that **** would not fly and he would have every right to take that up with me in arbitration. The TA essentially told the student, that although your calculated commission (in this case GPA) did equal an amount in which you EARNED the 2% commission, I really didnt like your attitude, or some other subjective factor, so I've decided to renig on the original agreement(in this case the syllabus) and am witholding the .5% commission that you rightfully earned and that I rightfully owe you.
Come talk to me about the real world kid. I am 22 years old, I'm a senior in college, and I earn nearly 6 figures. You need to read what you wrote again and think about it. In the REAL WORLD, you follow the written words of a CONTRACT. Unless there is a specific clause in a workers contract that leaves it up to my "discretion" to determine whether or not I "liked" his work, if he fulfills the sales objectives set forth in his compensation package, I am obligated to pay him. If an employee works 20 hours for you at a given rate, and you dislike the quality of his work, you write him up or you terminate his employment, however you still pay him the agreed upon hourly rate for the time that he worked for you. Otherwise, in this real world, YOU GET SUED.
To answer your earlier question, no I have never been employed by an educational institution, I make far too much money to need to work for peanuts as a TA. If you consider that a 'real job' compared to mine, you are the one who needs to get out of fantasy land. This is the kind of response you get when you make overly presumptious statements about who I am, how old I am, and what I do....
