Should this guy have been sacked?

[jumpy]

He's a senior lecturer in politics... what more needs to be said about his usefullness as a human being But I guess that goes with the bad grammar, spelling and punctuation too.

Subject: RE: Extension
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 19:24:20
From: Paul Buchanan
To: Student
Dear xxxx:
I say this reluctantly but not so subtly: you are not suitable for a graduate degree. It does not matter if your father died or if you have a medical certificate.
I have been too nice and given you too high marks all along (at C+). I do not anticipate that you will do better in the final exercise. You are already a day late.
The extension is meaningless because you have not attended the last few classes and are the worse performer in the class.
Of course by a far stretch, You will have the obiturary of your father, but even if available and the student health people might have believed you, I do not. You are close to failing in any event, so these sort of excuses-culturally driven and preying on some sort of Western liberal guilt-are simply lame.
Prove that your father died and your were distraught and unable to complete assignments-in spite of your abysmal record to date as an underperforming and underquallifed student- and perhaps you might qualify for an extension to get a C-.
But as it stands, you will flunk since your are already a day+ late, and you trrack record is poor.
By the way-are you a Hoadley student? That would explain a lot of things.
In a word: NO-I do not accept your extensuon request.
PGB
Paul G Buchanan
Director, New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies (NZCLAS)

3/10 see me.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by jumpy

He's a senior lecturer in politics... what more needs to be said about his usefullness as a human being

Wahey.

[jumpy]

Rather obviously that's meant to be toungue in cheek... but I'm sure I have expressed my rather dim view on anything political in the past. Were he a senior lecturer on Statesmen we might be looking at things differently :hmm: hehe

[Tchocky]

My sense of humour detection unit requires calibration

A moment please

[jumpy]

^^

[Takeda Shingen]

That may be, perhaps, one of the most unprofessional correspondences that I have ever laid eyes upon. Regardless of the student's track record, a collegiate-level professor, let alone a program director, should not act in such a manner. I can understand his frustration with the quality of the student accepted into the program. However, his quarrel would be with the admissions department, not the student that has been accepted into the program. As distasteful as it may have been to him, he would have been personally served better had he simply accepted the late work, documented it, along with the other issues from the semester, and taken his case to the dean and the executive council in hopes to rectify the issue for future semesters. Instead, he acted rashly, giving the university a black eye. Since college education is a business, the university was placed in a position where it was impossible to keep him, and I can completely understand and sympathize with their decision.

If this letter is real, I wonder how a man, writing with such gramatical error, could have possibly landed this position in the first place. He must present one heck of an interview.

[SUBMAN1]

The problem is, he wrote that email from an emotional, not a professional level. He is clearly very frustrated with this student, and it is an on-going frustration, not simply an immediate frustration.

I understand his position, but yes, he wrote the email in a non-professional way. It is laced with emotion at every turn, and he is so emotional about it, he didn't even bother to check his grammer.

Both sides have a case on this one.

The moral of the story? Never let emotion interfere with your work. If you are ticked off, do not do anything till you calm down a bit. Then you can attack the problem from a more logical perspective and not an emotional one.

-S

[joea]

Ok was the death of the sutdent's father the truth or not??