Oh, looks like we have driven our egoistic, bigoted lecturer (let’s call him L then) up the wall. Here’s the email he sent out, in it’s entirely, to the inboxes of those unfortunate students like me who were forced to take up this core subject.
From: L** **** ****
Sent: Sat 10/31/2009 12:25 PM
To: “BS***-LEC-09S1″
Subject: Another WARNING from ** L**: BS***-LEC-09S1If you have nothing better to do, PLEASE DO NOT email me with panicky messages like “Oh my god!!! Does that mean i do not have a mark for CA? cry …”
WARNING: If I get any of these STUPID emails again, I will REALLY REALLY FAIL whoever sends me these emails that DRIVE ME UP THE WALL!!!!!
I regretted sending the email about possible uploading problems if your file contains non-alphabetic characters like “-” as in “BS***-xxx” There is ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM with this filenaming convention.
FOR THE LAST TIME, if the system acknowledges that it has received your upload, then THAT IS IT!!!!! If I have not received your assignment file after the deadline (over now), I will SOON BE CONTACTING you. If you don’t hear from me, you are OK.
SO PLEASE DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT email me further with STUPID, STUPID, KIASI, KIASI EMAILS asking me to check your uploads.
WARNING WARNING WARNING – IF I EVER RECEIVE ANOTHER SUCH STUPID EMAIL FROM ANYONE FROM HEREON, I WILL NOT BE NICE ANYMORE AND WILL FAIL (READ CAREFULLY) I WILL FAIL YOU!!!!
This email made my day. I just feel very, very, very obliged to dedicate a post to his email. Wow, and all-caps sentence? Groundbreaking.
Moral of the story – if you have a cohort of almost 400 students, ask them to hand in their research paper in hardcopy. And don’t whine about the technicians, L. They’re innocent. You have trampled on their dignity like a mad bull on a beautiful lawn, and mama karma is now on her way back giving a good kick to your butt.
lucky, my lecturer in Ausi can still bare with us. It was the system issue, where you can’t update the file you uploaded.
fuh~
Let’s try to be nice la, he/she probably just had a bad day, or was waiting for an email from a long lost friend/relative, and then opened the inbox today to find 400 emails screaming OMG MAI ASSIGNMENT HAS FAIL?
Hahaha your last sentence sounds so LOLcat-ish. Hmmm, I wouldn’t say that I being mean to him because the long history of bad things he had done. I hate to discredit a lecturer’s hard work but serious, my friends and I agree that he’s one of the most bigoted, self-centered one we’ve ever met.
During lab sessions he’d ask for questions and when nobody answered, picked a random victim. There was once he was telling some grandmother story for the past hour so my friend decided to ask “Can we get started with the lab proper now?” and he replied saying that her question was a “stupid one” (quoted).
Ah, professionalism is dead.
Wow, talk about being professional.
Granted 400 “kiasi” emails must be quite annoying. But I think, as a lecturer, s/he should maintain a certain composure – that comes part and parcel of every job.
At least I’m not one of the 400+ people who sent him the kiasi emails, haha. He did dish out some stern warnings about the assignment format and submission a few weeks ago, and I believe that eventually culmiated in a mass panic in the students the evening of the submission deadline.
I agree with you – while he is still human afterall, he should note that he’s a lecturer. Some degree of professionalism is expected out of him, isn’t it?
Even my college math teacher is gazillion times better than him… but that’s given the fact that she had worn so many best tutor awards in the many years before :) I still miss her!
Still though, I think people have a certain threshold for frustration. Some people just don’t handle frustration as well.
Even though some of my lecturers constantly get bombarded by “stupid” emails by students, and though they get frustrated, they won’t go to such an extent to spam all 400 student’s inboxes.
I would think making it clear in class would look much more professional.
Perhaps I’m lucky to have such a lecturer.
I guess he have a low threshold for frustration. And I left out many intricate details of him – like how he’d cuss and whine about traffic for a good 30 minutes out of a two-hour lecture (and having us to rush through the remaining part of the lecture notes like madmen), curse and complain how bad technicians are at making softwares work (but our school technicians didn’t even design/code for the softwares at the first place) and etc.
I would see that it’s karma getting back on him *evil laughs* I rarely feel this evil.
And in another email send to the cohort again, he complained (like we’re his psychiatrist) that a student called him when he was driving and he nearly got involved in a traffic accident *rollseyes* and he wouldn’t stop emphasizing that he answers his calls with an iPhone. Oh, cry me a river.
Lucky you! Anyway not all of our lecturers are like him :)
Serious? Ur lecturer emailed that?? =.=
Wow. I was thinking exactly what Ivy said above. I’m shocked that a professor emailed something of that stature. That’s very very unprofessional. :| I don’t care if he/she was having a bad day or not — there’s no excuse to act so bitchy & childish towards your students. I could not imagine the trouble Chris would get in to if he talked that way towards his students! Wow. This blew my mind.. lol
I’m sorry you had the.. pleasure.. of finding that in your inbox. :(
On good news though: My laptop is back from the shop! Let’s hope it’s fixed this time around. As you can imagine, my hopes are not very high. :)
I’m glad to be back and able to read my favorite blogs! Yayyy. Have a nice week, Teddy!
While it didn’t come as a huge surprise to us (afterall, we were accustomed to all his childish tantrums), it certainly did drive some points home about him being a lecturer. We’d love to have another one replacing him but since we’re short of lecturers specifying in his field, we’ll just have to put up with all the weird antics of his haha.
Of course I believe Chris won’t do that! He looks too angelic, nice and smart to not do anything so blatantly offensive out of the blue.
I view it more with interest and curiousity rather that disgust or rejection. It’s funny to see how he throws a tantrum on electronic mails.
Ah, congratulations for getting your laptop back! I hope Dell fixed the problems for good, heh. I don’t want you to get embroiled in an endless circuit of sending laptops back to Dell and waiting hopelessly for them to send back to you again :(
Have a great week too, Trina!
While it is possible that external factors could be considered into why the lecturer probably had a day, lecturers are still required to conduct themselves professionally. Even during an angry email, one should be able to choose words and capitalisations carefully. The above email — although funny, I have to admit — was not professional in the least.
Nah, he’s just unleashing the kid inside him. He had threw just so many tantrums during lecture before – and there was once he spent a good 30 minutes complaining about the crappy morning traffic (I bet he was trying yo justify why he was late but went overboard). He’d also call some questions posed by students as “stupid”. I’d say he’s being rather unprofessional in that sense.
And that’s just because in Singapore we don’t have the luxury of having many lecturers like him who specify in that field of biology.
So, how’s things on your side, Maria?
I just had to laugh especially when I saw the word Kiasi. I still am in disbelief that a lecturer, a professional, had to resort to caps to vent his frustration about system failures :P
Maybe it’s just one of the times that s/he has to blow it up to calm down. I just hope that in the future, I wouldn’t be like that XD
What to do? That’s how the lecturer is, hah. He loves to use all the funny words that only exist in the Singapore version of English – yes, down right to the word ‘boomz‘, which was once wildly popular after it got out of the mouth of the dethroned Ms Singapore 2009.
I wouldn’t want to lecturer who blows up in such an unproffesional tone over the email. I wouldn’t fine a carefully worded, stern lecture or warning about that. He picked the other way instead. Hah.
How’s things in UK?
Your professor and his method is really one of a kind then, I guess XD I heard about the dethroned Ms Singapore and all the drama assosciated with it before and so I do remember the ‘boomz’.
UK’s great! Time flies quite fast, and looking back I’ve been here for nearly three months although it doesn’t feel like it. We have so many breaks in-between so we always look forward to one. The unpredictable weather here is annoying though. One moment it’s blazing hot and another it’s freezing cold. It’s getting colder by the day though. But overall I’m having a blast :D
LOL I nearly misread your second paragraph. I thought I’ve read “We have so many break-ins so we always look forward to one” and I told myself, oh boy is the crime rate over there really that terrible? My bad!
UK is famous for their cold and wet winters! Blame it on the ocean currents, heh. Make sure you’re all dry and comfy all the time so that you won’t catch a cold (that’s old wives tale but then again, better to be safe than sorry). Take care!
Hahahahahaha.. Your lecturer is funny!