In Which The Duh Reaches New Lows
Jun. 24th, 2008 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Hello $OVERBOSS and [me]
This is just a follow up to my previous emails. Which were to someone else, possibly in Mongolia.
As stated before, our Summer Advantage Program is schedule for June 30th, 2008. This program is designed to assist students who have not met the requirements for admissions to Hunter. Ah! Stupid people!
These students are not matriculated; however they will be taking courses over the summer in order to matriculate in the Fall semester. During this time, these students will need email addresses as well as access to blackboard. OK, this requires a lot of work for $FUTURE-OFFICEMATE, but it can be done.
A few weeks ago I forward you a roster of 57 students, and I have not received a response. That's because you sent it to someone else, not me. Possibly you just sent it to $OVERBOSS and it went out his tiny widdle brain, but I bet it's still in your outbox because you misspelt something.
Attached is the list again and we are expecting approximately 20 more students to sign up. Well, the 20 more can suck it, because it can take up a week to put people into CUNY systems by hand.
We need someone from your office to do a short presentation explaining how to use blackboard and how to access their email addresses. OH YOU WOULD, WOULD YOU?! You of course realize we don't even do that for NORMAL students.
Once again the event will take place June 30th from 3:30pm – 5:00pm 10th floor north. Can you please inform me who will be assisting us during this time. MY FIST, DOWN YOUR THROAT.
Thank You
[End transmission.] [Unless you count the fact that she sent it twice.]
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So, I go talk to $FUTURE_OFFICEMATE the accounts guy and ask him what exactly we need to comply with this. He gives me the list: name, SSN, DOB, street address. I go back to check the spreadsheet: it has none of those except the name. I start composing my response. In the middle of this, more email comes in from the same idjit: It's got the same text at the top, only it's in front of about six FWDs, which has at the end two more spreadsheets with entirely senseless names. At first I think, oh, she figured out she sent way insufficient information? No--they have entirely discrete lists of students. And, better yet, they all have different fields. And better still, all of the students on the latter two spreadsheets are listed with Hunter email addresses. YES PUT THESE PEOPLE INTO OUR SYSTEM BY HAND WHEN THEY'RE ALREADY THERE THAT WILL BE GREAT KTHXBYE LOLOL2000!!!1~
Then I wonder, are these spreadsheets supposed to be for this at all, or did she just stupidly combine two different threads? So I start reworking my almost-done response to the first message, to allot for this new blerg, when I get YET MORE MAIL, in which some person I've never heard of confirms that these are all supposed to be dealt with.
None of the three spreadsheets has the info we need. None has any indication what existence these students may have either in CUNY's systems or our own--except that we know there must be some.
Nor am I going to coordinate a training session for 100+ students on four days' notice.
And even if they get all the data together, we have grave concerns about the integrity; I very much doubt that one particular lad's name is actually "Randy Lee Lee", nor that another's is "VincentGonzales JoelAnders", if you take my meaning.
I responded about 1:30pm, it having taken me that long to compose a message with no cuss words or very clear YOU FUCKING MORON subtext, and so far have not heard back. Either they are gathering the data required, or they're preparing a lynch mob. (Or, as
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$BOSS just said she approves my response. Horay!.