*primal scream*

[shadesong]

If one more professor comes up here and demands that I print them a roster *and doesn't know what class they're teaching* - I am kicking their ass.

If one more professor comes up to me today - the day before classes - to ask for a desk copy of a book that we don't have - I am kicking their ass. I tell them on the original book order that they must TELL ME THEN if they need a desk copy. If they don't tell me, I don't know to order one. Asshats.

If one more professor walks *through* my back office, comes up behind me, sits in a meant-to-be-avuncular fashion on my desk, and starts listing their demands - I am kicking their ass.

I am so not kidding.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

If you hang the scalps up behind your desk, those that are left won't bug you. :)

[deza.livejournal.com]

Hang a big gore-spattered battle axe on your wall. Works wonders for getting them to leave you alone.

I use mine for collecting library fines.

{hugs}

[mfree.livejournal.com]

You may borrow "The Legbreaker"... I could bring it by when I pick up the Chrysler manuals (eventually)... I bet the rude arse sitting on your desk spouting off will quiet down once you give them an advanced reflex test across the patellas with this lovely 27" aluminum teeball bat :)

[jet-li-wannabe.livejournal.com]

If I walk through your office, jump up on your desk, do a softshoe number and then demand you clap, is that ok?

Puh-leeeze

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Promises, promises...

[ga-sunshine.livejournal.com]

want help?

[darkmattr.livejournal.com]

Spank them with a stapler.

[snowelf.livejournal.com]

Heh.

Definitely sounds like something I'd be tempted to do with idiots like that.

'song, I am sorry you have to go through that shit, you don't deserve shit like that.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Bitch. :P

Accoutrements:

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

Do you have your ass-kicking boots on? Y'know, those boots are meant for kicking, and that's just what they'll do.

I bet it's a wonder to see you kick ass and take names. }:->

[skylion.livejournal.com]

how many people wanna kick some ass?/I do, I do
go for it 'song. well, short of getting fired.

[catalyxt.livejournal.com]

Send out an e-mail with details about books and rosters. Heck, tell them to e-mail you if they want a roster, and give you all the relevant details that way. Much less of a hassle and less work for you. And they call professors smart...I just try to keep them out of my office :)

Heh, and if they won't abide by the rules, they can be staple spanked to your heart's content :)

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

Prof:I need a roster printed up
you: What class?
Prof:I dunno
you: *picks up a handy pre-printed random roster* here you go
Prof:this isn't my claAAACK, gurgle, thud.


This is an adaptation of sysadmin problem solving 101.

geek: There's somethgin wrong with my computer
admin:What's wrong with my computer
geek: I dunno
admin:Oh, I just fixed that while you were walking over here. Go back and try it again.

The terrible thing being that they will go back and try it again. The great thing being there's infinite variations of this game, including "I don't see it here, are you sure? Go check."

[skylion.livejournal.com]

...you said "asshats"...
...cool...

Re: problem solving...

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Hey, a geek would solve it herself...

The biggest problem with this adaptation is that you can't electrify a roster book. How about contact poison? :)

[sterlingnorth.livejournal.com]

So you're telling me that the professors are no more responsible than the students they teach!

Do you know how happy this makes me!

[catalyxt.livejournal.com]

Often worse...They think they deserve babysitting. I knew one professor who decided that as soon as he received his Ph.D. he forgot how to accomplish menial tasks like putting paper in the Xerox machine. Hmmm...guess it was just below his station. *wry grin* And this was an award-winning prof. Very silly.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Professors, students, they're all idiots...

I like the grad students, though.


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