The civility has gone out of everything in the past 20 years. When you are among the finalists for a job, after a second interview -- we're not talking about the hundreds of initial resumes -- they don't do you the common courtesy to send you an email saying they have selected someone else for the position. That's where we're at in 2018. The unemployment rate is low, but everyone hates their jobs, so everyone is applying for everything, and consequently it is still as much of a buyer's market for labor as ever in the darkest hours of the financial crisis. Regrettably, the way Berkeley is run seems as corrupt as any other organization out there. Yet people will always clamor for that prestige. For average administrative positions at UCB, the problem is that you are living in poverty in the Bay Area on a salary at the median US income. Couldn't square all these elements.