Martin da Man said:
"Usually? Try industry, where the average worker NEVER has any say about the
deadline. And the consequences of a missed deadline in industry are so much
larger than those of a missed deadline in academe, there's no comparison. A
small sector of academe -- those seeking tenure and thus truly under
"publish or perish" -- see worse personal consequences from missed deadlines
than do those in business. But you will almost never see an entire academic
institution or even a school or department cease to exist because of
deadlines missed. It happens in industry all the time."
Yeah. Like being given a talking to by your boss for having to go to a
walk-in clinic with your sick daughter when everyone KNOWS you have a hard
deadline to meet . . . a little bit less forgiving than in an academic world
where if your thesis is delayed by a week it WON'T cost millions of dollars
of corporate revenue. (How many industry professionals suffer stress
headaches, ulcers, etc. compared to professional students?)
-Mathew Gray
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