Random School/Work-Venting Post

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I'm late sometimes

Usually because I never know until I try and get up how my joints are that day. There's a world of difference between walking, being on crutches and being in a chair to when and how quickly I will get somewhere.

Especially if hills are involved.

 

I've always asked lecturers if they have a 'late limit' to their lectures after at Bournemouth it was standard first fifteen minutes you could come in for, then again the lecturers were never on time either!

So at Solent I asked, they said ten minutes should be fine, apart from one lecturer who stood and looked at me with an incredibly dumb expression until I left the room. Odd sod that one.

 

Rule of thumb when I was in college was that if you were more than 5 minute late, it was counted as an absence. You could still attend and participate, but you were still counted absent.
Of course, there were very few courses that this mattered in. Most of my instructors only cared about making sure I was doing the work, not whether or not my rump was in a chair.

 

I found it far more effective to welcome them into the class. Just stop everything and say your glad they could make it, I would tell them I would rather have them come in late than not attend. After a few days of this, the late arrivals really didn't happen -- everybody was there on time.

It's absolutely amazing how much better people respond when you let them know they are reason you (the teacher) are there -- and that you want them to do well.

 

Indecision is over finally regarding classes for me this year. I decided to withdraw from WSU and just take a couple general classes at the CC in town. I wanted to purse a major in Kinesiology or some other pre-physical therapy classes, but the courses were full, and I didn't want to use loan money on classes I won't use. The loan counseling for exit kinda scared me, but it isn't too bad.

On another note, my new job (20hrs a week) is actually kind of fun. It is at a mexican food joint that is kind of a slow paced fast food. Fun people to work for, and kind of entertaining job.

 

My school tried to f*** me over once again. I am *one* class away from having my AAS degree in hand, so they scheduled that class on a Wednesday...after I fought an endless battle last quarter to prevent that from happening! To make things worse, they also scheduled me for a Thursday class! So I fought the same battle this quarter, and lost yet again. (Yeah, if you ever see an ITT Tech commercial on TV and they tout "flexible schedules"...that's a bunch of F***ING BULLS***!!!)

Surprisingly, my work is actually being helpful (sort of). They're letting me "adjust my schedule on Wed and Thurs so I work 4 hours into the next shift. Not the best solution, but it'll work for the next 11 weeks. I'm going to be tired as hell on Thursday and Friday nights though.....

 

I really should start making some research for my bachelor's thesis soon, but right now the many student parties at the beginning of the semester are keeping me waaaaaaay too busy for that

 

Well I guess I could combine the two and make it a bachelor's party! First I'd just had to find a girl to marry me first. Or perhaps I can setup someone else for that.

On a more serious note, I'm not in much hurry with the bachelor's thesis since the first seminars have not even started yet but I'd like to be there with a pretty good idea about what I'm going to write about well in advance and for that some preliminary research is required.

 

English and Spanish tomorrow... should be a low-key day.

Against my expectations, the [expletive]heads at college look to have what vaguely looks like a brain -- I was classified in English 103, which is the highest possible. This should be a freaking walk in the park.

Still not pleased with the amount of time needed to travel to college... but I'm only there for four months, and besides, 23 hours a week is a relatively low-key schedule... I work on Thursdays, seeing as I have but one class scheduled, and the usual week-ends. At least I'm spared from doing Saturday evenings, I'll be working as a double instead, but will do Sunday evenings. Good enough for me.

 

Just had my last day at work, yay! Preparing for a three-day vacation and then it's back to uni for my master degree

 

So, I tried to go to college today. I missed the boat I need to catch to cross to the South shore, and because of that, I also missed my bus. Then my moronic French teacher calls saying I have too many absences and that this puts me in a "fail" situation. Explained the fact I had to juggle with trying to get transfered to another college closer to home, get an appointment for a program switch and traveling, and he just didn't care.

Look, I like Spanish and German, but three hours of traveling every day is too much for me. I'll return to work near full time, and then it's gonna be take two at the college 15 minutes on foot from where I live.

 

Heh...my work is *finally* switching over to M$ Office 2007...they're only 2 years late, but people are still freaking out.

 

So close to version 2010. There are companies still switching to vista from xp.

After many many years, finally an outside company is hired to teach my bosses how to handle sick employees. Until now co-workers had no restriction but were asked nicely not to be sick so many times. Some rules here are so left-wing that US Democrats get red heads of shame from it.

A nice Human Resources lady explained it all, trying to be political correct(left). So I asked If anyone could be fired if they were unjustified sick, or would just be hugged more.(I really said it in those words).

And? It was a No. But they would try very hard to get an other job for them.(without hugging is suspect).

 

My one workplace has officially said to stay home if you are sick, no matter what. I expect the other to follow suit soon. The policy was put in place from swine flu fear, I'm sure.

 

I am to translate a booklet from German corporate new speak into English corporate new speak. 'Quick reaction agility', wtf?! Double plus fast!

 

There is an info mailing list at my faculty.
It's rather handy for getting all sorts of official notices, some useful.

If only a fraction of users weren't mindboggingly dim/obnoxious.

There are over 500 people on the mailing list. None of them need or want to receive e-mails from two idiots flaming each other, or sending greetings and chatting. You don't send an e-mail to *everyone* when you want to talk/reply to one person!

I'm sick and tired of having to delete such stupid e-mails from my inbox.
Worst bit is that the people running the list don't seem to mind/care. At all!

I should just stop using the damn thing - but it's actually useful, when the official stuff gets published - and a huge improvement from hiking across four floors checking to see if any of the institutes have a new announcement pinned to their doors.

*drops the hammer and takes a deep breath*

Much better. (This thread is surprisingly useful... )