What's the most unethical thing you've experienced in your career?

My college:

  • After a student hanged himself in my dormitory, somehow the head of housing, my academic advisor, and the undergraduate advisor all found out I was hospitalized for suicidal behavior at age 19 and banned from campus for a time. I was called to five different meetings during midterm week to be checked up on because they needed to make sure "the community was safe." I never authorized release of my records to anybody other than the head of the student counseling center. I couldn't sue my own school because I had nowhere else to go at that point to finish my degree.

  • Trust fund babies getting promoted to UDRs in my department, who I knew almost never wrote their own essays without major help. One of them got publicly outed for plagiarism in the school newspaper because he still wrote his own articles. Another used to say things in private about women that made Donald Trump look like Elizabeth Cady Stanton. He still held an event dedicated to women's rights his senior year.

  • Professors using students to further their own internal political agendas. I never had my grade docked because of it but I don't know what other departments were up to. I'll just say that campus protests at any school result in changes to the funding structure.

  • I almost completely failed out senior year because I was afraid to get treatment for my depression, thanks to their previous shenanigans. I petitioned for an incomplete after the deadline, which was stupid, but I was really having a genuine nervous breakdown. After I was denied my incomplete, someone told me that there was a "restructuring" in the counseling center after my last incident with them. The old boss was replaced by a new boss. The new boss drove in front of my house in the middle of the night with one of her aides in the car behind her. I went to campus to be sure of what I saw and lo and behold, the lights in the counseling center were on. At midnight.

And that was my college experience in a nutshell.

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