by Pamela
(Marco Island, FL, USA)
I I resigned very professionally and graciously because in a one-on-one meeting my boss strongly suggested that the University of Pennsylvania's Writing Program was changing drastically and that, not only was I never going to receive a promotion or benefits, but that layoffs were possible in the future, and my position at the university was very tenuous. She was very candid that I should seek stable employment with another university because she thought I was rightfully frustrated by the University of Pennsylvania's inability to provide me with full-time, benefitted work; and suggested that my position with UPenn was a dead-end job. And, in fact, soon after I left the university's Writing Program, most or all of my non-tenured colleagues were laid off.
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