"I've got class in 15 minutes, can you help me make my webpage?"

[incognegro]

i had lots of trouble in Econ in college, and went to every class, took lots of notes, and read the assigned chapters.

i just couldn't get my head around it - stagflation, etc. - too abstract & confusing.

it wasn't attendance or interest.
i also tried different profs - most were foreign & had accents which hindered my ability to understand the material. one US native ended up being able to help get me a C.

[$tevie]

[quote papercup][quote $tevie]I've always like that one, too, but I have not yet had a job where I could get away with saying it...
"Rush charge: 100%"
I don't have customers. I have bosses. VPs don't take kindly to witty aphorisms about how they screwed up.

[AlphaDog]

[quote bazookaman][quote AlphaDog]"Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
I too like this one a lot. i finally got to use it on one of my coworkers. She reported me to HR. It was worth it though.
Yeh, this is harder to pull off at work, unfortunately. I managed to get by with it a couple of times, and those are now cherished memories.

I think it has a place when dealing with kids, though. I used the parenting equivalent of it a number of times, both with kids in my own house and kids I worked with. I still chuckle when I think back on the one foster son who caught up with me and the car at the first stop sign - out of breath and carrying his shoes. Hey, I was tired of skating into work at the last second because he wasn't ready to leave on time! It never happened again.

There are times when we need to cut kids some slack, but my guess is the one who is the subject of this thread had more than enough time to finish that assignment and chose to do something else instead. I would have told him "T$" and let him deal with the consequences.

[blusubaru]

[quote AlphaDog]There are times when we need to cut kids some slack, but my guess is the one who is the subject of this thread had more than enough time to finish that assignment and chose to do something else instead. I would have told him "T$" and let him deal with the consequences.
Haha, I hear that, but unfortunately I can't say that, I'm here for the students. I had him out the door with one minute to make it to class. He's obviously had all semester to get this done. When I asked him why he hadn't, he said he didn't do the readings until last night. These are the readings that were then supposed to go onto the webpage.

[Phy]

At the school where I worked, one (excellent) teacher had this ("Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.") posted at the front of her 5th grade classroom. Most of the parents who saw it laughed and said they' like to copy it and use it at home. One parent didn't like the poster, but since her son was not a procrastinator, did not make an issue of it.

[AlphaDog]

It's really a shame the system currently in place requires that you keep enabling this kind of thing. That college is missing the chance to have some enhanced "teachable moments" about time management. A couple of people who used to work for me must have gone there.

[blusubaru]

[quote AlphaDog]It's really a shame the system currently in place requires that you keep enabling this kind of thing. That college is missing the chance to have some enhanced "teachable moments" about time management. A couple of people who used to work for me must have gone there.
I know. It was obvious the student didn't want to learn it at the time and just wanted it done. So I helped him get it going and left the door open for him to come back and not only learn it, but to fix his website from the several quick fixes it looked like he had. How's the saying? You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.