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asimplechord) wrote2007-06-11 06:05 pm
asimplechord) wrote2007-06-11 06:05 pm
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Dear DePaul University administration,
You are a bunch of wusses. I have never been so ashamed of and appalled by an institution of higher learning as I was this morning after hearing the news about Professor Finkelstein's tenure decision. You should be protectors of a bastion of free speech, not lackeys who cave at the slightest bit of political pressure because a professor speaks the unpalatable truth.
No love,
Me
Dear Research Assistant N,
Please to not be f*cking with the X-ray developer. And if you do, don't bitch at me about it. Warning signs are posted.
Most especially, don't drag me away from a timed experiment because your "very important piece of film is jammed", only for me to find that you turned the developer off while your film was in the dryer, and that's why it never came out of the machine.
And after you've done that, don't bitch to your boss about how terrible the developer is and how you lost time because of it. You lost time because you screwed up. Not because of the developer.
Here's a boot to your ass,
Me
ETA (at 9:30pm)
Dear Summer Student,
Next time it takes you SEVEN HOURS to do something that should take ninety minutes, stick your samples in the freezer and go home; you can start the next step (which really does take six hours) the next day. Because if you start it at 5pm (which you did) and have to leave at 5:05pm to catch your bus, that means that I will be staying until 11pm to finish your experiment.
And that pisses me off.
Got it?
'k, thnxverymuch.
You are a bunch of wusses. I have never been so ashamed of and appalled by an institution of higher learning as I was this morning after hearing the news about Professor Finkelstein's tenure decision. You should be protectors of a bastion of free speech, not lackeys who cave at the slightest bit of political pressure because a professor speaks the unpalatable truth.
No love,
Me
Dear Research Assistant N,
Please to not be f*cking with the X-ray developer. And if you do, don't bitch at me about it. Warning signs are posted.
Most especially, don't drag me away from a timed experiment because your "very important piece of film is jammed", only for me to find that you turned the developer off while your film was in the dryer, and that's why it never came out of the machine.
And after you've done that, don't bitch to your boss about how terrible the developer is and how you lost time because of it. You lost time because you screwed up. Not because of the developer.
Here's a boot to your ass,
Me
ETA (at 9:30pm)
Dear Summer Student,
Next time it takes you SEVEN HOURS to do something that should take ninety minutes, stick your samples in the freezer and go home; you can start the next step (which really does take six hours) the next day. Because if you start it at 5pm (which you did) and have to leave at 5:05pm to catch your bus, that means that I will be staying until 11pm to finish your experiment.
And that pisses me off.
Got it?
'k, thnxverymuch.