Hey, the were honest. I’d let it fly
Late
Submitted 10 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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tdawg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
And scare the poor student even more???
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Last time i’ve read this it hadn’t that huge white spacing.
whostosay@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ll allow it
BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Did nobody get the reference or is everybody in on the joke?
whostosay@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You have some bug jousting reference you wanna let the class in on?
BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’d like to think they are Gregor Samsa in denial and about to come to the conclusion that they are the bug. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
TheBat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s no bug. But there’s a mirror and that student has turned into a bug.
mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Kafkaesque
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
OP is Gregor Samsa
cicadagen@ani.social 10 months ago
That time I was reincarnated as a bug and got spooked by my own reflection.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Klear@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Kafkaesque as shit
DrabPoultry@midwest.social 10 months ago
This may have worked. I once excused a student for being late because the geese were being aggressive.
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Damn cobra chickens getting all hissy and angry just because I don’t have bread for them. Entitled bastards.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I accepted “I’m sorry, it was just too nice a day to spend it sitting in a basement with no windows” once because man, they had a point.
DrabPoultry@midwest.social 10 months ago
Immediate failure for not being academia levels of brain-broken. You’ll sit in your cube and like it!
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 10 months ago
who cares about collage attendance?
in my uni no one cared, of you’re late, it’s just a bit rude, of you don’t show up, no one cares.
what matters are the graded assignments and exams. if a student aces those but never stepped in a lecture hall, does that matter?
DrabPoultry@midwest.social 10 months ago
This was for a lab I was teaching, so they had to be there in person. It was a 3 hour block, so I wouldn’t have even asked why they were late. I only even remember 5+ years later because they came rushing in with an explanation and I thought it was hilarious.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
One of my biggest pet peeves in college was professors who took attendance. Bitch, I’m paying you to be here, if I don’t want to come to class, that’s on me. It was usually because they knew that most people could skip every class and still pass.
I even once had a class in a lecture hall with at least 100 students, where the teacher took attendance using some stupid “clicker” thing that we had to buy at the school bookstore. Ridiculous. Pisses me off just thinking about it.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you can pass my class without attending lecture, why wouldn’t you just ask to test out of the class???
…
I scream, into the void.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
i’m not a teacher, but if i was i’d excuse it just because they took the effort to compose such a crazy story. probably learned more than i’d have taught them that day a anyway
DrabPoultry@midwest.social 10 months ago
Oh, the funniest part of this to me was how certain I was it was true. I used to have to find alternate routes into the building all the time because of the geese. I think they nested in the bushes near all the doors. If it wasn’t, it was a very good lie and I appreciated the effort anyway.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m newly a teacher (of adults), and I accept literally any excuse anyone gives me. I suspect that I’ll change that as time goes on, but I don’t even really get excuses.
bampop@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If the class was on Kafka I’d give them top marks
MissJinx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ma’am, this is the last time i’m gonna tell you to stop that before i call Costco security.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sir this is not a bug, it’s a hot dog
whostosay@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If one more motherfucker walks in and says this shit in target I’m gonna lose it
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When I move You move just like that
whostosay@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I expect more from you, Spruce.
I’ll see you after class ;)
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hell yeah hey dj bring that back
floo@retrolemmy.com 10 months ago
I mean, I’m still marking you absent. But you’re definitely getting an A for creative effort!
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even sending me a note that you’re going to be late is more consideration than I usually get. I’ve got enough on-spectrum students that I can very much see this being a legit scenario, too (though I teach CS so it’s a little expected). IDK, if they’re an otherwise decent student I might let this slide, though almost entirely for the novelty of someone actually letting me know they’re running late.
Tommelot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The specific wording of the note is a direct reference to Kafka’s metamorphosis! So depending on the class and year, teacher should be proud.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
He’s so high he doesn’t realize that the bug blocking his door is the professor
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TheBat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I thought you were joking
can@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Respectfully, I am in tears,
My brain at random
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Might make this my work signature tbh
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
Everytime I encounter a praying mantis, it’s like this. I see them, them see me. I am like “oh cool a mantis.” It gets all defensive, raising those fucking scythe arms. I am like “whoa bud chill” and then it flies at my face, I smack it out of the air and am like “now why’d you have to go an do that for? Now you’re fucked up.”