Today it was my group's turn to give instructions for the class session we are leading next week. Like the professor does every week, we wrote our instructions on the bored and offered further explanation for the upcoming reading. One class member -- who has sort of been rubbing me the wrong way for a while -- followed up my explanation with, "My brain is really full right now with all you've said. Could you send the instructions in an e-mail?"
As I looked around at the rest of the class writing down our instructions LIKE THEY DO EVERY WEEK, I pointed to the bored and said, "No. They are right there."
"Yes. But I'll probably lose them."
WTF? You are getting your PhD and you can't hang on to the instructions that we are asking you to write down right now?
Luckily, Adam, a groupmate jumped in. "Yeah. Well. Don't lose them," he offered.
Very logical to me.
Unfortunately another, kinder groupmate offered to send the same instructions (that everyone else had already finished writing down) through e-mail.
Sometimes I think the problem with the wrong-way-rubber lies with me. That I'm just not kind enough or that I'm too self-centered to realize that she just sees things differently.
But seriously. "I'll probably lose them." Call me cruel and narcissistic, but that's bullshit if ever I heard it.
4 comments:
The wrong way rubber needs to be put in solitary for a few weeks.
i work with a few people who just LOVE to give me extra jobs. And you know what? I am not fond of those people at all.
You just summed up the WTF experience in a nutshell. I hope this person isn't planning on teaching new teachers...I can't imagine.
moviegirl
I hate when teachers act so stupid. I was so embarassed in my last class when we had a couple "quizzes"...that the prof adequately prepared us for, and when asked for feedback, some students actually told her that they haven't had a test their entire graduate experience, so they didn't see why they needed to study for one now....honestly..that's what they said! And one girl said that she wasn't there the week of the review so she didn't really know what she was doing. I piped in, being the nerd that I am, saying that studying for the quiz forced me to understand the material when I would have just glanced over it otherwise.
Glad I'm not the only one who sees the problem with this particular request.
I did mean board, btw.
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