Who/What: A stuck-up (self-proclaimed) lecturer
When: an email exchange @ work yesterday
Event: (tail end to a long email exchange)
Lecturer:
Dear Michael,
Thank you for your last email. Could you please explain what you
mean by:> @[Lecturer] can you help with chairs and tables on the 2nd?
Me:
I am busy in meetings all morning until 13:30 at the earliest, so will
not have time to layout the chairs and tables as well as get the AV
set-up. So someone will need to help out otherwise everyone is sitting
on the floor cross-legged like in primary school. Of course if it
is already laid out then fine.
Lecturer:
Forgive Michael, but as a lecturer I feel responsible for teaching and not for laying out the chairs. Surely there must be someone who is able to ensure that the room is open and ready for a 2pm class. If this is not your responsibility then please give me a mobile number for a colleague who will be able to prepare the room. ‘Sitting on the floor cross-legged’ is a careless joke. [the visiting lecturer] is disabled.
Grrr! I know the visiting lecturer very well, know all about the disability, and I’m sure the person would find the comment funny to have the audience sitting on the floor. Clearly the stuck-up lecturer was trying to make me feel guilty and do what she was not prepared to do, instead she pi**ed me off so much I never responded or helped out as I was purely doing it as a favour for the visiting lecturer. Luckily someone else was going to help-out anyway. I later found out I was more senior to her!
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