dbd33

Toronto, like NYC, though less so, is really multi-cultural. One can function knowing just one of perhaps two dozen languages. I know people who have been there for decades and managed with just French, just Cantonese, just Hebrew. Our office manager routinely uses Russian, French and Yiddish to talk to regular visitors such as the currency trader and FedEx guy; everyone else, myself included, gets Polish.

Alan2005

Thinking about it some more, maybe I'm misjudging it. Cos I lived in Asia I might have stopped seeing the differences, and Vancouver's diversity is primarily asian. Certainly, if I wander around china-town in Vancouver it still feels relatively western.

And we use english only in my office, though it is a bit like the UN. Cradle canadians are in the minority by a long way.

Atlantic Xpat

I think its more an undergrad thing. The 'Hotness' rating seems to be particularly puerile.

Oink

Not if you have a high rating.

Novocastrian

Armed with your tip that I'm not on it, I had a peek.

It's rubbish.

I know my colleagues pretty well and the comments are completely shotgun off the mark.

Although of course I'm devastated not to have a positive Hotness rating.

Do you think they'd notice if I did one for myself?

dbd33

One of my children now lives in Vancouver, she's a student but has a job at the francophone cultural centre. She's, er, been about a bit and rates
Vancouver highly for the outdoors, the hippy culture, the sailing, lots of things, but not diversity "hey, I lived in Montreal". Apparently it's more diverse than Halifax but then I recall the emails from Halifax "send curry, send Black people, hell, send Tabasco, send Jews".

fledermaus

We could put you on there, and vote for you

Partially discharged

My brother was a prof at a US university and you better believe it profs read those reviews and some post their own to make themselves look better.

Novocastrian

No. No, thank you. Very decent and all that...

I'm lucky enough to teach nothing below 3rd year. I'd like to think that they've grown out of such tomfoolery by then.

Novocastrian

Surely not if they have tenure? Well, perhaps, it is the US you refer to.

Oink

Its only personal ego. They don't give toss how you teach in the US to get tenure. They just want to know if you've published the right stuff, in the right journals so you make the department look good. That, and shagging the Dean's wife might delay your chances a bit.

I actually had a colleague who'd simply read his notes out to the class without looking up. Many a time he'd screw up and read them out of sequence. Page 1,3,5 7 etc. then he'd go back and read pages, 2,4,6,8. He still got tenure.

iaink

Good god, I am shocked, shocked I tell you to discover that there are actually some things that dbd finds unacceptable!

dbd33

Shot!

Novocastrian

Your colleague's mistake was to number the pages in the first place. Makes it far too easy.

wheatsheaf

oh bollocks