Senioritis in the workplace

[muckefuck]

Here I sit, waiting for the Ecology of Design people. They showed up at 9 a.m. yesterday wanting to talk to me--this on a day when I had three employee evauations scheduled, the first starting in half an hour. I said, "This is incredibly bad timing." And then, "Do you have my e-mail address?" Oh, yes! They'd even sent an e-mail to inform me. I told them I'd received no such message. "What was the subject line?" "We just used your address." "For the subject line?" "Yes." WTF? They promised to resend it, this time with a title that would actually REFLECT THE CONTENT somehow. We made an informal appointment for 10 a.m. this morning--informal because I thought we'd confirm by e-mail once they got in touch.

Well, it's now 11 a.m. No call, no e-mail, nothing. I even checked with my boss to see that she'd sent the correct contact info. Yup! I know they're undergraduates, but they're seniors. Do they expect to land jobs with these skills? My freshmen students do a far better job. But I guess that's the difference: They're employees. This is they're job and if they don't keep to their schedules, they don't get paid. For the seniors, this simply a class assignment, so who cares who they inconvenience or alienate?

So I'm sorry, monshu--no post yet about how vague and hare-brained their questions or methodology are. A little while longer and I go to lunch.

Comments

[prilicla.livejournal.com]

Did they ever show up? Inquiring minds want to know!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

As of 2 p.m., nope!