An actual nonsexual post! How 'bout that!

[shadesong]

Two more points of griping:

No student workers today. So I have to answer the phone inn addition to everything else.

And a bunch of kids asking for overloads. An overload is when the class is full, but you speak to the people in charge and they get you in anyway. However, there are NO OVERLOADS until the end of the add/drop period, as openings may be created then. So basically, you need to just keep trying at various points during add/drop week, and only after your chance to get yourself in has passed will you be considered for an overload.

Lazy little bitches here. Four of them in a row. Saying they need overloads. I 'splain procedure. They protest. I reiterate procedure. They protest. I finally flat-out tell them, listen, Prof. B will refuse to talk to you until after add/drop. He will just send you away. They keep whining and demanding. Finally, one of them discovers the directory, locates Prof. B.'s office number, and the hightail it down there.

About 1 minute later, they slink out, glaring balefully at me.

Well, I *told* them.

Comments

I hear ya.

[avivasedai.livejournal.com]

I'm an academic advisor. Part of our job is doing student scheduling during registration. It's amazing what some of these people want. They come in and say "My admissions rep said I can take a full load, but I work four days a week from 6 AM to 3 PM, so I need classes from 4-6 PM and on Thursdays." Yeah, right. First, they are misled, then they refuse to understand when I tell them how the system really works. Then there's when the course caps are at, let's say, 25, and they all get full, and there are two days of registration left, and we have to go to the program deans to get the caps raised, 5 at a time, until everyone is in somewhere.

It's a freakin' joyous process, let me tell you. It's getting better, but between admissions and the students, it frazzles us to no end. Professors get the administrative week or weeks off; they return and wonder why we're so poorly rested and need a break. *sigh*

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

If I was that prof I'd not let'em get the overloads.

Reminds me of the bit my sister (former RA @UTK) did... she was on desk duty, and this chickie comes up and wants a key; she's locked herself out. (Note to make this work out: The level chickie lives on has a no-overnight-visitation rule.) She's doing the paperwork, and her bf is standing there; both backpacks are up on the counter. There's a can of contact lens cleaner poking out. Lauren calmly reaches over, grabs a Green Sheet (residential rules violation citation), and starts filling it out.

Why? The dude wouldn't need contact lens cleaner unless he was staying overnight.

Her comment: "I'm not writing you up for violating the rules. I'm writing you up for stupidity."