Grad-Level Spam
I don’t remember getting this much spam as an undergrad, but every day my MBA account is full of messages sent from various clubs and officials. While I don’t like them, I do tolerate the pleas for students to sign up for uninteresting electives that are capped at like 5 students. And while the constant barrage of junk newsletters advertising various happy hours and meetings for unimportant clubs is annoying, I can see how they might be relevant.
However, the problem really sends me over the edge when regular students start abusing my mailbox. Usually what happens is that a student will use Reply to All to reply to a plea for a TA or whatever. I don’t understand why the administration doesn’t have a decent mailing program that would make this a non-issue. However, last night really took the cake when some retard lost her stats notebook and emailed the entire distribution list asking if we had seen it. Then, 30 minutes later she emailed everyone on the distribution list to report she had found it. I have several problems with this:
- This student didn’t even email the appropriate contact and ask for the note to be passed out. How are students even given permission to spam other students? I know in companies you always have to go through a proper command chain to send out a global email.
- The student found her notebook by herself in under half an hour. It was not really lost if you can find it that quickly. WTF at least look for it yourself first.
- We do really high-level stats, and basically everything is done with software. Who the heck takes notes in a binder for this?
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By Velius, 11/14/2007 @ 3:43 pm
Hey, you always need a cushion to sleep on in class, and I suppose a binder is the least conspicuous.