Sometimes the ol' horoscope hits the mark

[wordinista]

That today's horoscope said:  "The workplace will be a madhouse. You'll find peace tonight."

What it probably ought to have said:  "You will be surrounded by more idiots than usual today."

It's going to take a lot for my Employment Law teacher to get me to revise my opinion of her.  And in case anyone was wondering, my current opinion of her is that she's lazy (do not use the words "thru" and "nite" and expect to get anything resembling respect from me, tyvm), utterly disrespectful of her students' time (ARE YOU KIDDING ME? YOU SCANNED IN EVERY LAST ONE OF THOSE HANDOUTS -- POORLY, I MIGHT ADD -- AND IT'S UP TO US TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PRINT THEM SO THEY'RE WORTH HALF A DAMN?), and one Archdemon short of a Blight.  (Yes, I know: gratuitous DA:O reference.  I need what laughs I can get right now.)

I need to (a) find my happy place, stat, and (b) switch to herbal tea before the vein currently popping out on my forehead bursts.

Comments

[allycelestastar.livejournal.com]

Ugh stupid people are stupid. (Nice DA:O reference btw XDDD)

As a student myself, I feel you on the useless professor thing. You'd think that teachers would remember what it was like to be a student, and what they liked or disliked about the teachers they had. Wishful thinking, I suppose.

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

Here's the funny thing -- I used to teach, and when I did, I pretty much always kept those things firmly in mind. Unfortunately, I found that even doing that didn't keep students from having problems with me. :/ (Then again, we're talking about students who would write things like "she made us read too much" when the class I was teaching was a literature class.)

But this is a graduate level course, and I was kind of aghast at how ill-trained she was on the online supplemental tools. However, after last night's class, it turns out that the problem with the handouts had more to do with IT steering her astray than anything else. THAT SAID, I still have a built-in prejudice against people who use shortened internet speak in day to day communications. There's someone I've known in RL for years who regularly uses "ppl" instead of "people" in pretty much all of her correspondence. And I want to strangle her. Every. Time. She also signs her emails "Hugz" and I then I have to count to ten and find my happy place.