Co-worker phoning it in
I'm grading in despair right now.
Without going into details I'm grading the final projects in a capstone course right now. Student projects are awful. While I teach some of the pre-reqs in our department, the other faculty member is nearly 80 and has been phoning it in for the last 10-15 years. Not only have they not kept up in their field, they mainly teach foundation courses, and they basically pass everyone no matter how much or how little work they do.
Students love the other faculty member, but they come away underprepared for the advanced coursework, and there just isn't enough time in the semester to do all the remedial instruction necessary to bring students up to speed and teach my own coursework. A decade in industry before moving into teach, and yeah, I'm the bad guy in the program.
Layer on top of this all the other issues discussed elsewhere in this group, entitled students and parents, distracted students, students underprepared for college level work, the decline in reading ability, students using AI instead of doing the work themselves, and so on, and though I'm nowhere close to retirement I just want to walk out into the wilderness and spend the rest of my life living on wild game and berries while watching the world burn.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!