[rant] Hypothetical question...

[Isaac]

What would you do?
So, you're my boss and you hire me to do some easy job that really only requires me to show up on time. However, on the first two days I don't show up without calling and later, on day three, claim that my family was in town and I hadn't seen them in a while. Imagine I'm smiling and trying to charm my way into forgiveness.

I show up for the following six days, doing nothing productive, then on the seventh and eight day I don't show up. Later, on Monday, I claim I had a big headache and couldn't show up for Friday and Thursday, because it hurt too much. That's four days, so far.

I show up on Tuesday, with no problems, but then come in 15 minutes late on Wednesday then leave for 30 minutes because I had forgotten what I needed for work. Then the day after, on Thursday, I don't show up at all.

That's five days worth of no-shows out of fifteen.

So, you're fed up with this bs and you try to fire me, but YOUR boss tells you to keep me, the incompetent employee. Apparently, I've already gone over your head and cleared my excuses with him.
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We have this Canadian teacher who has the worst work ethic I've ever seen. Our class has already complained and we aren't sure how well we're going to do, because we haven't gotten any grades from her yet; half the semester has passed. The first and second week we just looked at pictures on the Internet, which were for no assignment or grade.
Faculty have complained and the department head has said she's cleared it with him; he finds her behavior acceptable. I would have withdrawn, but, during this summer session, everything else I need is full or unavailable. This is also just a \"basics\" class, which I need to advance to my upper division courses. I won't tell you which school I'm going to because this is very embarrassing and I have lost school pride over this; these are low standards.

I've had much harder jobs for years with almost no sick days, used. I also worked more hours than she does. She needs to learn how to 'pop' caffeen and pain killers and go to f***ing work.

[CDN_Merlin]

Sadly, I see this everyday working in the Gov't. Welcome to life.

[Ferno]

i'd replace you without a second thought.

[Isaac]

Sadly, I see this everyday working in the Gov't. Welcome to life.

When I worked for the State I didn't see this kind of behavior, however I was at a clerical level and we could be fired for any reason. I had no issues showing up on time or working hard.

[CDN_Merlin]

If I was the boss, that person would of been fired for not calling in the first 2 days not at work.

[Foil]

Is she a tenured professor? If so, I'm not surprised.

My recommendation: Keep very detailed notes about her absences and lack of feedback. If you end up with a poor grade because of this teacher, that detail would be great evidence when/if you contest the grade.

[Cuda68]

If I was the boss, that person would of been fired for not calling in the first 2 days not at work.

X2

[Isaac]

Is she a tenured professor?

No, she is not.
edit:
Yeah, I use the heck out of google calendar and I made a special one just for her, which mark the days she's missed and the blocks of time she's late to class. I also added her explanations.

[Kilarin]

Way back when I worked in a huge tape library. 24 hours a day we tape apes would watch as a big board displayed tape numbers, someone would run back in the huge library to the correct shelf, grab the correct tape, then run back and stick it into the drive that was connected to the mainframe.

Night shift didn't have a supervisor. The lead Tape op ran itself just fine and the day shift supervisor handled any paperwork/management issues during turnover.

One night, there was a critical tape that needed to be mounted. One of the old reel tapes, and the only drive that would read that kind of tape was broken. The lead tape op called IBM and got a repair man out, but it took a long time and the drive wasn't up and working until just before the day shift took over.

The people who were waiting on the tape mount were furious. They complained that there should have been a night shift supervisor to handle the issue. Management said, \"But the only thing that could be done was call the repair man, and they DID that, and they did it as quickly as possible. A night shift supervisor wouldn't have gotten your drive up ANY faster.\"

They replied, \"We understand that, but there would have been someone to blame!\"

So, the company hired a night shift supervisor, who's ONLY job was to take the blame. Seriously. The guy showed up, gave some useless orders, then left and spent several hours at a local strip joint. He would show back up around midnight, confuse things again, then leave and go back to the strip joint. A few hours before turnover he showed back up again so he could look all official when dayshift arrived.

It was crazy, but it made the business folks happy because they had someone who was \"in charge\" to yell at when things went wrong.