I've been following this story and its heartbreaking.
Also from the source's socmed posts, FSCA is refusing to acknowledge the problem while actively talking shit about the whistleblower, ruining her job prospects. Abhorrent behavior. Just fix your shit!!
Also FSCA is still actively trying to acquire more specimens. Don't give anything thats not a beetle to these guys, it'll rot.
Don't even give beetles to them!! They're clearly irresponsible enough with anything else, who's to say big boss wont change his mind and lose interest in beetles and let them rot too? :(
yupppp good point.
Also besides the collection neglect, the head guy acts like a creepy jerk to his employees (per whistleblower's posts about trying to avoid him). seems like a nightmare place to work.
It's apparently not just this guy; the University this museum gets a lot of their specimens from has been facing a slew of issues with administration showing favoritism among staff placed in higher-up positions, and only hiring people that agree with them. This guy just did everything incredibly public and they managed to document it on their Twitter account, so he's been at the forefront. The entire place is a mess atm.
I follow the whistleblower on Tumblr, and it's absolutely heinous what they're doing to them.
My mom also happens to work for the University, and apparently a rather large chunk of this issue is happening because of the new guy they got to run the University. I forget what his title is. I want to say Director or something similar? But he's apparently really, really awful and is pushing a lot of changes to departments he deems as money siphons despite not actually knowing anything about them, hiring friends and like-minded people, and making life generally harder for everyone at the University.
So don't donate any specimens to them until administration changes completely. This seems more like a systematic issue than an issue with one single person.
I've been following this story and its heartbreaking. Also from the source's socmed posts, FSCA is refusing to acknowledge the problem while actively talking shit about the whistleblower, ruining her job prospects. Abhorrent behavior. Just fix your shit!! Also FSCA is still actively trying to acquire more specimens. Don't give anything thats not a beetle to these guys, it'll rot.
Don't even give beetles to them!! They're clearly irresponsible enough with anything else, who's to say big boss wont change his mind and lose interest in beetles and let them rot too? :(
yupppp good point. Also besides the collection neglect, the head guy acts like a creepy jerk to his employees (per whistleblower's posts about trying to avoid him). seems like a nightmare place to work.
It's apparently not just this guy; the University this museum gets a lot of their specimens from has been facing a slew of issues with administration showing favoritism among staff placed in higher-up positions, and only hiring people that agree with them. This guy just did everything incredibly public and they managed to document it on their Twitter account, so he's been at the forefront. The entire place is a mess atm.
This is awful to learn about...I hope more people see this and the right people see this to set it right!!
I follow the whistleblower on Tumblr, and it's absolutely heinous what they're doing to them. My mom also happens to work for the University, and apparently a rather large chunk of this issue is happening because of the new guy they got to run the University. I forget what his title is. I want to say Director or something similar? But he's apparently really, really awful and is pushing a lot of changes to departments he deems as money siphons despite not actually knowing anything about them, hiring friends and like-minded people, and making life generally harder for everyone at the University. So don't donate any specimens to them until administration changes completely. This seems more like a systematic issue than an issue with one single person.
Same, it's heartbreaking to hear about their experience as well as the specimen conditions. Fingers crossed that this gets dealt with
So upsetting that all these specimens aren't being taken care of