I am currently assisting a professor at a university in my area that teaches (among other things) a course in basic MS Office proficiency. We’re currently teaching the 2007 version, so its a pretty worthwhile thing for many students.
(Please don’t use this thread to bitch about Office 2007. I know a lot of people don’t like it… but my job ain’t to defend the software, it is merely to help teach the software)
Anyway, the undergrad class being taught during this summer session meets from 6pm-8:15pm. The only reason I was still in the classroom later is that some poor kid’s computer froze up on him, and it would have been pretty sucky not to give him a few minutes more to finish up.
So this kid strolls in at 8:20pm and demands the password from me so that he can take the test elsewhere. WTF? Dude, this class started at 6pm. I frankly don’t care that you just got in from Lakeland. You were supposed to be here at 6 - you are two hours late, and you know it. Furthermore, you are asking me to potentially stay over an hour from the time I go home, just because you couldn’t be here on time. Not cool. Even further furthermore, the test has a password precisely because it is not appropriate for you to be taking the test whenever and wherever you choose (which, since it is software based, would offer you endless opportunities for cheating).
Now, I’m not pitting the kid because he missed his test. That’s his own thing, and doesn’t really affect me. I’m pitting him because he had the gall to get pissy with me about him very clearly missing his test…
Well, ain’t nothing wrong with optimism, in my book. For example, there’s the kid that I pretty much caught cheating a couple weeks back, but didn’t report (though I did stop him), under the assumption that he would straighten himself out (heck, he pretty much tanked on that first test anyway). From what I could tell, he stepped up and is actually now doing ok in the class. Of course, I guess it is possible that he figured out a way to cheat that I couldn’t figure out… but if so, I guess he still learned something, right? Right?
If I showed up unannounced two hours after class started on a test day – which I wouldn’t, Lord knows, unless my leg was being gnawed on by rabid lions – I’d come in groveling, not demanding.
I actually asked about this, but it turns out there is a strict no-smacking policy in effect In retrospect, that probably wasn’t the best question to be asking an employer, but luckily, it turns out that the prof I work for has a pretty good sense of humor and took my joking remarks in the right way.
I really do too (even more so because I meet all these youngsters who are still in their carefree youth). But what I miss is not so much the classes and all that, but the feeling of being young and invincible.
He was late because he spent 2 hours trying to talk his girlfriend into giving him his first blow job ever. No wonder he was angry. He had the blue balls. :eek:
It happened to me. It was a final exam. I showed up at 6:45 - the exam started at 5:00. I wasn’t running late - I actually thought the test was at 7:00. I came in and the professor said, “you missed the test”. I chuckled said something like, “yeah good one.” and sat down. Once he convinced me that I had indeed fucked it up, The groveling began. Luckily it was a class I hadn’t missed but maybe once all semester, I had a good reputation with the professor, and as it turns out, he was a hell of an accomodating guy.
He told me that he was planning on grading the tests that night anyway and he’d just do them in the classroom instead of in his office. He was well within his rights to tell me I was screwed - and I wouldn’t have blamed him if he had. But, he handed me my test and allowed me the full two hours. I busted it out in about 45mins. I figured it was better for me to miss a few points because of speed than to push his generosity any more than I already had.
I’ve been late to a final because of traffic. Anyone living in the Atlanta area knows what I’m talking about. I had to turn in an incomplete final.
I was in a class last semester where the students bitched and moaned so much that the prof ended up changing the requirements for the class. He basically let himself get walked on. The requirements were not at all unreasonable. I am not a teach, but I would not have a lot of tolerance for students missing assignments that were posted early on.
But hey, I don’t have to worry about that anymore. I just got my Masters last Wednesday! Woo Hoo.
In retrospect, that probably wasn’t the best question to be asking an employer, but luckily, it turns out that the prof I work for has a pretty good sense of humor and took my joking remarks in the right way.
