I just watched ESPN’s The Katie Meyer Story,
A real bummer. I love Stanford, my dad was a law student and I spent my first year and a half at Escondido Village. Attended my first football game as a child in 1969. I was hooked. Did not attend Stanford (SJSU) but my allegiance has always been Stanford. I was a Stanford employee from 1998 to 2013, many departments including working for Gerhard Casper in the President’s Office to the Stanford Athletics Marketing Department. I was living my dream. However Stanford is a bureaucracy and not always rosy. Shit does happen and a-holes are assigned positions of power. I indeed came across some absolute dickheads in the AD as well as the office of development. Stanford does (in my experience) err on the side of those with seniority over the rank and file. Katie Meyer did not have representation, she was young and impressionable and felt the weight of the Stanford bureaucracy closing in and felt as though everything she worked for was over. My issues with Stanford OOD occurred when I was in my forty’s and I was not impressionable. I left OOD after fighting the power for months. Less than a year after I left, the manager I had issues with was dismissed for abusing her subordinates which was my issue with her. Stanford is not immune from missteps. Many an influential a-hole has a Stanford degree.
A real bummer. I love Stanford, my dad was a law student and I spent my first year and a half at Escondido Village. Attended my first football game as a child in 1969. I was hooked. Did not attend Stanford (SJSU) but my allegiance has always been Stanford. I was a Stanford employee from 1998 to 2013, many departments including working for Gerhard Casper in the President’s Office to the Stanford Athletics Marketing Department. I was living my dream. However Stanford is a bureaucracy and not always rosy. Shit does happen and a-holes are assigned positions of power. I indeed came across some absolute dickheads in the AD as well as the office of development. Stanford does (in my experience) err on the side of those with seniority over the rank and file. Katie Meyer did not have representation, she was young and impressionable and felt the weight of the Stanford bureaucracy closing in and felt as though everything she worked for was over. My issues with Stanford OOD occurred when I was in my forty’s and I was not impressionable. I left OOD after fighting the power for months. Less than a year after I left, the manager I had issues with was dismissed for abusing her subordinates which was my issue with her. Stanford is not immune from missteps. Many an influential a-hole has a Stanford degree.
