who signs an email with “first supervisor”?
Comment on Dear Faith I
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
this can’t be real
gigachad@piefed.social 3 months ago
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
it could be an internal organizational title, but it definitely doesn’t sound like an academic position and not a part of a normal email signature either
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Just to muddy the waters, I worked with a guy who had “system administrator level XII” in his email signature and one of the teammates asked him about it. His response was that he just put that in to see if anyone noticed and occasionally bumps the number up when he feels like it’s about time to do so.
So you never know when someone stuck a private joke into their email signature like that. Heck when I was brought back to my role I was never given a clear job title so I just put the most accurate job title I could think of in my signature of “IT Contractor”
NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Have you ever worked in academia? This kind of email could definitely be real, not saying this one necessarily is though
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I have never worked in academia, but I’ve spent time around academics and have read plenty of emails in both academic and corporate contexts … this particular one looks fake, even if the circumstances of plagiarism are common - this just not seem like how a thesis adviser would address this kind of plagiarism with a grad student
sniggleboots@europe.pub 3 months ago
The way I read is that they forgot to cite sources, so technically it’s plagiarism. I didn’t take it as a bad faith effort of passing off someone else’s work as their own. Otherwise I would agree, I don’t think they’d treat the situation so flippantly.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I don’t know, the line “at this rate, the only original part of this thesis is your name” implies the issue is not just failing to cite sources, but having no original thoughts or contributions - maybe it’s exaggeration for humor’s sake, but I definitely did not read this as simply forgetting to cite sources.
toofpic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s not “flippantly” - the reviewer’s opinion is there, and the whole message is just a “get your shit together”, but in a more polite and ironical form. It’s not an official or final review yet, but if I would receive it, I’d get the idea of what happens when the paper is officialy submitted.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is the second post today with an over-the-top reply to a student named Faith but yeah could be real
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sounds like you would be shocked by the reality if the situation.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
This one almost certainly isn’t because of both the jocular tone and the several other “emails to Faith” posted in this comm recently, but indeed they are drawing on the true experiences of graduate students.