Yea! Finished grading!
Mar. 26th, 2004 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coffeesnob318Dear drivers in Lewisville and Carrolton,
GET OFF MY ROAD.
love,
coffeesnob
I finished the first round of take-home exams last night, just in time for classes to be cancelled because we had a blackout. Apparently, someone was playing with a model airplane and flew it into a few power lines. So a grand total of two of my students got their papers back. The rest I get to carry around some more. I'm choosing to view it as an opportunity to build muscle.
Today, I'm substituting for the full-time prof at El Centro. We're talking about conflict. I never realized how much I enjoyed having Fridays off until the alarm went off this morning at 6:00. *hums "Don't Know What You've Got 'Til it's Gone."*
Tomorrow, I have training/committee meetings here (the jury's still out on just what they're calling it). Yea. Fun. At least there's free food. Too bad it's illegal to bring alcohol onto the campus.
Got this from Margat yesterday. Made me laugh. Also made me want to send our network admin cookies and flowers.
An object lesson on why you should always respect your system Administrator If one ever wonders why we have problems in the Church, the Military, the Schools, and in Business, read the following:
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Actual letter of resignation from an employee at Zantex Computers, USA, to her boss, who apparently resigned very soon afterwards!
Dear Mr. Baker,
As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers and myself during the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time.
Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen.
I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" for the hundredth time.
You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will.
You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others. You have a sharp dressed useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your
glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle. Since this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation, however I have a few parting thoughts.
1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you to give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment." I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.
2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I am going to publish your "favorites list," which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files.
I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed
favorably by the administration.
3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your Mothers birthday", you neglected to mention that you were going to take nude pictures of yourself in the mirror. Then you forgot to erase them like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such odd acts with a sauce bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please, I hate having to correct your mistakes.)
Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public. Never fuck with your systems administrator. Why? Because they know what you do with all that free time!
Wishing you a grand and glorious day
Cecelia
Hee hee. "Intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel." That's rich. I may be forced to use that one today. I blame Margat for arming me with such ammunition.
Hee! Another toy from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ravenluvslex - vintage coffeesnob.
GET OFF MY ROAD.
love,
coffeesnob
I finished the first round of take-home exams last night, just in time for classes to be cancelled because we had a blackout. Apparently, someone was playing with a model airplane and flew it into a few power lines. So a grand total of two of my students got their papers back. The rest I get to carry around some more. I'm choosing to view it as an opportunity to build muscle.
Today, I'm substituting for the full-time prof at El Centro. We're talking about conflict. I never realized how much I enjoyed having Fridays off until the alarm went off this morning at 6:00. *hums "Don't Know What You've Got 'Til it's Gone."*
Tomorrow, I have training/committee meetings here (the jury's still out on just what they're calling it). Yea. Fun. At least there's free food. Too bad it's illegal to bring alcohol onto the campus.
Got this from Margat yesterday. Made me laugh. Also made me want to send our network admin cookies and flowers.
An object lesson on why you should always respect your system Administrator If one ever wonders why we have problems in the Church, the Military, the Schools, and in Business, read the following:
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Actual letter of resignation from an employee at Zantex Computers, USA, to her boss, who apparently resigned very soon afterwards!
Dear Mr. Baker,
As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers and myself during the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time.
Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen.
I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" for the hundredth time.
You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will.
You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others. You have a sharp dressed useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your
glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle. Since this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation, however I have a few parting thoughts.
1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you to give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment." I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.
2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I am going to publish your "favorites list," which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files.
I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed
favorably by the administration.
3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your Mothers birthday", you neglected to mention that you were going to take nude pictures of yourself in the mirror. Then you forgot to erase them like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such odd acts with a sauce bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please, I hate having to correct your mistakes.)
Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public. Never fuck with your systems administrator. Why? Because they know what you do with all that free time!
Wishing you a grand and glorious day
Cecelia
Hee hee. "Intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel." That's rich. I may be forced to use that one today. I blame Margat for arming me with such ammunition.
Hee! Another toy from
ravenluvslex - vintage coffeesnob.
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NOOOOOOO
Date: 2004-03-26 05:13 pm (UTC)so when is your last class??
margat
hey
Date: 2004-03-26 09:13 pm (UTC)xox
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Re: hey
Date: 2004-03-29 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
:O That was YOU?!?!
"Too bad it's illegal to bring alcohol onto the campus."
Yes, and I'm sure that rule is strictly adhered to.
I like that Cecelia! Oh, how nice to have the ^&#@* by the balls, and in such a thorough manner, too!