A Short Rant About Quiet Quitting (or, Why Heroism Can Be Toxic) – American Alliance of Museums #5669
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This: "I’ve written before about the “sacrifice measure”—the tendency of people coming to museum work to accept less money for a job that gives them the opportunity to do what they love. Cumulatively, this contributes to depressed wages in the industry and sets everyone up for disappointment, particularly workers who find the actual work does not align closely enough with their passion, or face with the stark reality that their wages aren’t enough to pay the rent." It is definitely an expectation |
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This is such a great piece and our little slice of the museum community would do well to think about the issues raised here. The same community would benefit from the use of strategic foresight and the ways that it helps people to think ahead. Elizabeth Merritt does a great service for the art, history, and "front-of-house" sides of the museum world. Collections would benefit from the same types of analysis and thinking. So much more could be said about this and how non-PhDs are valued in the academic setting, too. |
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I think where I have a hard time dividing out is I would do parts of my job as volunteer work (and have in other institutions), but now it is my job. So when I stay late to prep an object or install an accession, I know I would be doing this work as a volunteer in my off time at another institution because I would love and learn from it, but that just means in my job I'm not going home on time. It's hard to draw that line. |
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Relevant to this: our cms have been putting together a graph which shows
that staff collection managers at our institution are the lowest paid of
all university employees in our grade, with no tiers for advancement, to
the point of being outliers. At the same time our job descriptions require
the highest level of education and training in the same grade.
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Or any staff member. There is definitely a divide in some between staff
and everyone else. Sometimes I feel like I'm running just to catch up with
the wake left behind in the museum from some projects.
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I thought this article might hit home with a lot of us.
A Short Rant About Quiet Quitting (or, Why Heroism Can Be Toxic) – American Alliance of Museums
It got me wondering whether we are fostering
toxic heroism
in the Arctos Community and if we are, what can we do to mitigate it? I'd love to know how people feel about this article. Please add your thoughts and opinions!Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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