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it's portrayed as a bad thing by the union because these phd students doing supervisions/tutorials aren't union members

it really is that simple

phd students love doing supervisions, they literally queue up around the block for the teaching experience and the tax free cash

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mmooss 2 days ago | parent [-]

> phd students love doing supervisions, they literally queue up around the block for the teaching experience and the tax free cash

Maybe they have no choice and are being exploited. PhD students current and former that I've spoken to definitely think they are being exploited.

As examples, look at the comments from actual PhD students and postdocs on this page.

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blibble 2 days ago | parent [-]

I lived with three of them, they loved doing them

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Marsymars 2 days ago | parent [-]

Loving your job isn't mutually exclusive from being exploited. The best job I ever had was in a academic/research-tangential position out of school, but the pay was bad and the effort/reward required for advancement was unreasonable, so I left after a year.

	▲	blibble 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		yeah, they were being paid 3x the minimum wage, and were paid for prep time vs. the alternative available part time work (sainsburys/tesco) definitely exploited