i work at a tire store. i am so freakin frustrated with people lately.

take this morning...yet again another STUPID person....

this lady comes in all huffy puffy, just real irritated. she states "YOU put tires on my car monday and one is FLAT today. this is NOT acceptable". EXCUSE ME? first you stupid bat, I did not put the damn tires on for you! second, unless you have not moved your car from our parking lot since monday, YOU probably ran over something in the how ever many miles you have driven since then! give me a freakin break.

people do this all the time. some even better. i have had a guy call and yell at me that he got his tires here 3 years ago and he has a flat and what are we gonna do about it? well you dumb ass, since flat repairs are free when you buy your tires here, we are gonna fix it for you. 3 years! 3 years!

i understand the stress and inconvienence of a flat tire, i really do. but come on now people.

another of our favorites here in the office....someone comes in w/ a flat tire. we fix it, find a nail/screw/rock or whatever in it. we tell them this and they respond with "well, i dont know how that would have got there"...umm, you ran it over? no wait, the flat tire fairy floated down and decided to stick one of her sharp little nails in YOUR tire, just so you had to come see us. she is on our payroll! derr.....

major cases of "here's your sign" going on around here!

One of my favorite quotes. "A lack of planning on your behalf does not constitute an emergency on mine."

One of my favorite quotes. "A lack of planning on your behalf does not constitute an emergency on mine."

HA! I have a quote FRAMED hanging in my office: "Poor planning on your part does not necessarily constitute an automatic emergency on my part."

Love it!:wink2:

HA! I have a quote FRAMED hanging in my office: "Poor planning on your part does not necessarily constitute an automatic emergency on my part."

Love it!:embaressed_smile:

You guys have probably seen me complain about some of my students before. Well, I got a doozy of an email yesterday. This guys emails me, wanting to know if we can meet to discuss him making up the material that he's missed. I email him back, asking how many labs he missed. No response within several hours, so I look though the materials I have for his lab. I didn't even have to look through all of the stuff to see that the guy's missed something like 5 or so labs, including the first 3 weekly lab meetings and the midterm. Yet, of course, he waits until 9 weeks into the semester to email me.

I'm fully expecting to get a nasty email from him in the next day or two, because I had to explain to him that our department's policy for the class I teach is that a student automatically fails the lab portion of his class if he misses more than 3 labs, even if they are excused absences (because more than three labs missed means he's missed more than a quarter of the lab meetings).

Now, it's usually left up to the lab instuctor to decide whether or not to enforce the policy. If the guy had had the decency to email me or have someone else email me or came up to me at one of the few labs he did attend, I probably would have waived it for him. But waiting until more than 9 weeks into the semester and two weeks after the midterm that he didn't go to and then having the nerve to say, "Hey, I missed these days, can I make the material up?"? Um, sorry, no. If you had actually been here, you'd know the policy. If you'd emailed me or come up to me with your request when you first started missing classes, you'd know the policy. Sorry to be the one to teach you this lesson, but it's too damn late at this point.

I know it probably seems heartless, but I'm so FREAKING sick of students trying to take advantage of the system and treating their professors and fellow students with absolutely no respect. You'd think that if someone missed the first day of classes (which he did), they'd ask to get any materials that they missed, wouldn't you? I mean, this guy isn't a freshman, he's a freakin' junior in college. He KNOWS that the syllabus and course policies are covered during the first class meeting of every single class on campus.

Well I bought a new tire once, drove home about 2 miles, parked, and when I came out the next day, the tire was flat. Sorry, but I blame the tire company. I'm pretty sure they didn't install it correctly -- especially since there was no visible puncture.

And yes, even though it was over 15 years ago, I'm still made about it! :embaressed_smile: