BrilliantResearchGuy, why is it that you can't work out that printing 165 copies of a 10 page handout takes more than the 5 minutes you allowed before you had to leave for class? No, I will not wait until they are done then carry them to the other building for you. I have a class of my own to teach. And you are not the boss of me.
Professor Sunshine, stop dropping by my office to tell me how much people well known in your field think of you and how wonderful you are. If they really think you're all that, why have they not hired you away from here by now? I wish they would...
Annoying Workman: fine, the university decided to do some refurbishment in term time, so you are working in my building. I appreciate your efforts to work neatly and I'm glad we're getting the wall fixed in that room. But please, please, please can you not whistle the first two lines of 'Barbara Allen' again and again and again and again? And then tell me to 'cheer up, luv' every time you walk past my open office door. I am at WORK, and I am NOT CHEERFUL. Plus, my 'cheerful grimace' might terrify the students and curdle the milk.
Technical Guy: yes, I would like to move to my 'new office'. But not in term time - and not until they put in some bookshelves. You asking me daily when I'm moving is not helping the bookshelves arrive. And the daily chat you like to have about how inefficient the estates services are is eating into the tiny bits of time I might have for packing up this office or, you know, doing my job.
SabbaticalSusie, will you just go home already and stop wandering around in jeans with a coffee mug looking calm and relaxed, or popping into my office to tell me you're just off to the library, or ran 27 samples yesterday. I'm happy for you! And I'd be a lot happier if you went away.
RetiredRonnie. The same goes for you, squared. WHY do you spend so much of your day in the tea room, relaxing and reading the paper?
RetiredRonnie. The same goes for you, squared. WHY do you spend so much of your day in the tea room, relaxing and reading the paper?
ReplyDeleteThat's easy, his wife kicks him out of the house every day because he's driving her crazy!
RR needs a hobby, and since he is a coot, that hobby should be amateur (ham) radio. All he has to do is pass a test, buy a transceiver, and he can jabber with the other geezers day and night about the weather, the war, and other trifling nonsense.
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