Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board The Moaning, Groaning, I just want to Vent thread

Sorry to hear about your work troubles, Myg and rick. Sometimes organizations are not able to take care of people properly.

Ah, that's rubbish getting messed around.

Lots of points for doing that manoeuvre though. I hate having to do it in the car, never mind something like that.

I think spammers are evil!

I think spamming should be turned into a criminal offense punishable by death!

I swear, when I think of those smug little pale, acne-ridden twerps, smirking to themselves within the womb-like safety of their nerd-caves as they unleash new sources of stress and paranoia to millions of innocent people, all of my humanistic principles go out the window!

I find it amusing and annoying, how some people just shove their noses into one's personal business in the most irritating way.

Person: "what are you doing now"
Me: "At work" or "With some friends"
Person: "I'm not used to people replying while at work" or "shouldn't you be paying attention to your friends?"

I reply:

"Wow, are you my conscience???"

"Maybe you can be the floor supervisor and catch people texting during their work coffee break."

"My friends are so happy that you care so much about their feelings, really. Oh, by the way, they yelled at me for looking at my phone while waiting in line for the toilet."

What a creep.

Oh, Internet, see what you have wrought upon peoples' ability to socialize with one another!

And now people can have their own personal trolls!

Hope the spammer isn't bothering you anymore, Ann.

For $20 and a 40 ounce, I know a guy that can handle that little problem, Ann.

Ibby, Rick, thank you both.

No spam since that day. Here's hoping that was the last of it.

Weirdly I just got my first spam in ages tonight.

I'm being spammed by people trying to sell me drugs on gay dating apps...

I don't mind the spammers too much. Most of it gets caught by my spam filters anyway and the rest is just a quick delete, just like throwing junk mail out of my letter box.
It's the telephone calls I hate. "This is Microsoft and we have detected a fault with your computer." Although I did get the better of one once.

"How are you feeling today sir?

"Actually I'm feeling pretty sad."

"Oh?"

"I'm sad that you feel the only way to earn money for yourself is to scam other people."

"Uh...."

"I feel very sorry for you. There are so much better ways to live."

"Click"

Nice one, stile86!

I love reading online about how people successfully get back at scammers.

There's this British comedian, whose name escapes me now, who has had some hilarious exchanges with scammers. I'll have to dig his name up...

My cat Comet was euthanized yesterday. Took him to the vet thinking he had some parasite and a pill would fix everything, but it was a huge tumor swelling up his belly. Having been through the cancer routine with another cat (dreadful for both of us!), I decided to end it. Sad day, he was my favourite since the original Cramer. (Unhappiness alleviated by a hopelessly cute baby goat wobbling around the vet's office, having been rejected by her mother and being bottle fed.) Now I'm left with the psycho border collie and a real pesky old cat.

My condolences, Cramey.

Big hugs:

So terribly sorry Cramer. Just gutted for you.

Í'm very sorry, Cramey

Very sorry to hear that.

Appreciate the sympathies, fellow travelers.

More Giant Sized Hugs and

indeed and caffeine

What Thoth and Ibby said.

Sorry to hear this, Cramer. Pets are family we choose.

Oh wow, Cramer - that's terrible.

MORE HUGS

Soooo... it's midterms and I feel like the students are going a bit loopy.

Last week, I kicked out a class because they had not watched the movie assigned.
This week, I had four students walk in late altogether, disrupting class and popping attitude when I questioned them.
Then I graded a midterm and two students copied each other.


I'm left thinking, am I doing something to provoke this?

sorry to hear this, Myg. Those are some irresponsible and disrespectful students.

And it must be distressing to not know why, especially when you're concerned about giving them a good education.

Even during my MBA - where you'd expect people to take things seriously - a lot of my MBA classmates were pretty bad students, showing behavior such as this. Someone tried to copy from me during our French language finals... and we had one class where almost everyone copied homework for French too...



are there any diligent students in class? Maybe you could ask them for insights. Or perhaps have a colleague sit in and observe? Two of our professors did that and would share feedback to each other.