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Not enough protection for post-doctoral scholars - Postdoctoral Scholar Stanford University Employee Review

2.0
Aug 6, 2016
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Pros

There are ton of resources to help you and a ton of classes and training available.

Cons

Competitive nature of the environment at Stanford promotes sociopathic, abusive, and exploitative behavior by some faculty. Definitely not every faculty is like this, only a select few. But I am unlucky enough to be with one of these abusive faculty members. While administration is sympathetic, there is very little real protection for abused postdocs, and very little to no consequences for abusive faculty, so the abusive behavior continues unchecked.

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Postdoctoral scholars are not considered employees

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