Wonderful People but Greedy Administrators
Pros
Friendly staff and I love the work and research I do. Safe environment with lots of opportunities to learn and better yourself.
Cons
The pay is just okay for part-time work. It used to be a bragging point that the campus minimum was $10/hr, but now its less appealing that I could get paid more working fast food. Administration is rather greedy with how they pay their employees. They definitely need to pay their graduate students more considering it isn't even a livable wage for Bloomington. They do everything they can to ignore the graduate student union. Its ridiculous if you consider the administration's and sport team coach's salaries. In my department there are plenty of vacant labs because the university won't hire anyone after they retire or left due to covid. The department hasn't seen that extra money from it though.
