Comments | flangebeast: Students

flangebeast

Students

Nov 15, 2006 10:29

I hate being the bad-guy. I just had to bollock a group of students who were using the lab computers to surf the web, do their email, download videos and music, you know, stuff ( Read more... )

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willseg November 15 2006, 10:55:51 UTC

Surely a matter of perspective? For the students who need to do project work and labs, you are thier saviour, protecting them from the evil time wasters and pornograhpers.

flangebeast November 16 2006, 10:24:38 UTC

Yeah, totally. But I end up being the bad-guy to everyone except the nerds.

life_of_tom November 15 2006, 11:10:49 UTC

I know what you mean, actually. I pretty much had to sack someone on monday, because we couldn't give him shifts that fit around his course. Worst thing was, it took me about twenty goes of explaining we couldn't do it to get it through to him.
If it helps, think of yourself as 'the man', rather than the 'bad guy'. actually, that probably doesn't help, does it? sorry.

flangebeast November 16 2006, 10:25:31 UTC

If i am 'The Man', then surely they get to 'stick it to the man' and I end up the villain of the piece?

bunting November 15 2006, 14:35:08 UTC

If it balances out in anyway, I told my students in a tutorial that they could ask me any question about anything to do with physiology and one girl asked me how you could go about losing weight, without the weight coming off your breasts.

I got pretty embarrased and forgot to ask them for the essays they were supposed to hand in.

So bristol students getting away with stuff, must balance out Reading students getting told off.

flangebeast November 16 2006, 10:27:14 UTC

Heh. There is a lesson there, always qualify 'anything' whenever you use it in a phrase.

'Ask me anything to do with physiology that relates to your course'

mr_jam November 15 2006, 18:03:17 UTC

Yeah you'ld never use your work computers for anything like e-mail MSN or LJ would you?

flangebeast November 16 2006, 10:29:37 UTC

Thing is, I'm allowed to. They are not.

I have an unrestricted account on my own dedicated computer.
The students use restricted Lab machines, which are for the whole faculty's students to do lab and practical work on.

mr_jam November 16 2006, 12:09:03 UTC

True, I just have to steal whichever pc I can at work :-(

flangebeast November 16 2006, 12:57:28 UTC

But where do you store your downloaded videos and games? :P