“Insecure, incompetent, wannabe Nero” – Law school faculty member’s stinging description of law school’s Director

The resignation letter of a law school faculty member is being widely circulated, after the faculty member sent an explanatory e-mail to all students of the law school in question..And the contents of the e-mail are not pretty. Far from it..The faculty member (FM) in question had been teaching for the last eight years in the same institute, receiving received stellar student feedback..A recent medical condition required FM to reduce workload, a request that the law school director (LSD) initially rejected. And the rejection, according to FM, was not polite..This imbecile displayed his petty nature by turning a blind eye to my medical condition and displayed a very callous and insensitive attitude towards me …. He continued to insult me in front of some of my colleagues….. He then went on to belittle my illness ‘I don’t even know if you are sick’…Truth be told, he knew everything about my medical predicament as […..] had informed him about it much earlier… He went on berating me in this vulgar and crude manner, until I decided that I could not put up with this illiterate clown (have you ever seen him read a book? Can he speak to save his life?)….”.There is more, with the e-mail going on a slightly philosophical tangent,.Why should well educated individuals like all the faculty members who teach here put up with these illiterate barbarians, who can never transcend their petty suspicious provincial outlook (though they travel abroad so often with the money they extract from students, what do they do there? Is there any sign of western enlightenment in their talk or behavior? Only a maniacal mistrust of fellow human beings)..Evidently, FM is not the only one who was unhappy with LS and his alleged antics..Many of your faculty members stay here and put up with this moron only for the sake of job security. So many talented faculty members have already resigned (remember all those teachers who joined […..] after studying abroad, many of them quit after a month).One particular semester there was a plethora of resignations, [……..] the prize goof, declared triumphantly in a meeting that ‘Even if teachers resign, I have so many applications lying on my table. So I can hire anyone I please’. Imagine the attitude of this wannabe Nero.”.Evidently this “wanna be Nero” does a good job of silencing dissent..“For students he puts up a gala event in the audi once in a while, where we all pretend that we are one big happy family. For the faculty they take to a resort once a year and give us some good food for two days. The message is clear-‘You sheep, eat as much you want for these two days…and then I will make your life hell for the whole year’..The prof isn’t quite done yet. FM also questions the qualifications of LS, and his ability to be a competent director of a law school..How can such a shallow and petty person be in charge of a law school? What are his academic credentials? Has he published anything at all in his whole life that a few people have read? Have you noticed that peculiar feature about this institution? Individuals who have a very poor academic record when it comes to publications, occupy positions of power?.It is not all anger though. After asking the students to get their degree and “flee this swamp”, FM expresses sadness at leaving the law school and the students. The letter ends with lines from Tennyson’s Ulysses,.Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.