"It's a nice place to start an academic career, with very nice colleagues," Juan reports.
I wanted to come here because I was offered a fantastic job with very good students and very nice colleagues, one of whom I knew, [Writing Seminars Co-Chair] Mary Jo Salter, who made me feel like this was going to be a happy home.
"Being able to work with such nice colleagues and friends is like a family where we have one another's backs," says Gräser, which translates to his selections whether he's playing his residency at Berghain or dark, clustered, strobe-lit rooms around the globe.
A considerable number of students added a good working environment and nice colleagues when asked if something other than the stated motivational factors would affect their specialty preference.
About a third of these described a good working climate and having nice colleagues as important when choosing specialty (not shown in table).
Employees are enticed to make lip dubs (a video of them lip-synching to music, if you need to ask), massage each other, vote for the nicest colleague, arrange for the accountant to swap jobs with the secretary and other stunts to celebrate their firm.The much-mocked campaign has not had much luck.
Though, to be honest, I was a bit scared of getting the visa canceled and the possibility of her possibly not-too-nice colleagues' strong-arm tactics did give me some pause.
Also very nice: my colleague Mihlad has invited me to stopover and have lunch at his family house at Puttalam – this is my first visit to a private house in Sri Lanka, I get some really lovely homemade food, too.
