It&#x27;s not really true that the only thing that changes once you get tenure is decompression. The other thing that changes is that your workload switches from lots of tenure-qualifying stuff to lots of administrative stuff. As his other point highlights, you still have an unreasonable workload, it&#x27;s just that now you aren&#x27;t directly fighting for your job. You can slack off, meaning do a mediocre job at the many, many tasks assigned to you.<p>And that goes to problem #3, especially the impossibility of teaching well when a huge load of administrative BS is required and great teaching isn&#x27;t required.