two quickies

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

Me: *in elevator*
StupidStudent: *gets in elevator and presses button for 4th floor*
me: are you going to the computer lab? (which is on the 4th floor)
StupidStudent: yes
me: you know it's closed tomorrow and Friday?
StupidStudent: oh! Is it open today?
me: ....


User logs the following issue:

"Transcripts just came out. I am trying to do mail merge letters....but
everytime I put in a student number I am getting "student number not
found"."

.. any chance of a hint as to what the flarping flip system you are talking about? After all there are only, ooh, about TWO THOUSAND things you could be referring to!

There's no place like home. There's no place like home. There's no place like home...

Comments

[susano-otter.livejournal.com]

Um... I'd be confused, too.

Why are you bringing up the closure of the library, unless it's actually relevant to what I'm doing?

You tell me that it's closed tomorrow and Friday, I'm going to wonder, is it closed today, too? Because if it isn't closed today, then why are we even having the conversation? It's not like I'm riding the Elevator Into The Future. We'll still be in The Present when we get to the 4th floor, and in The Present, there's no need to talk about library closures.

So yeah, I'd take your comments as indicative of a misunderstanding that needed to be cleared up--probably by confirming that you really did mean to talk about tomorrow instead of today.

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

me: are you going to the computer lab? (which is on the 4th floor)
StupidStudent: yes

the computer lab on the 4th floor is just about the only reason why students go to the 4th floor - sorry it wasn't clearer!

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

So, what, you're complaining that you didn't know the obvious? I'm confused as to what this person's supposed to have done that's noteworthy too.

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

*sigh* (at self)

Lack of caffeine is my excuse.

There have been signs up in the lab since the beginning of the month advising that the lab will be closed those 2 days.

I was making sure that the student who was going to use the lab knew this fact.

I said - lab closed TOMORROW and DAY AFTER. Student asks if it's closed TODAY.

That's what I get for posting with a dangerously low amount of tea in my system...

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

I understood all that. I'm just saying that it sounds like a perfectly reasonable question, and I have no idea why asking it should make a student stupid.

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

... I'll just crawl under this rock, now, and hide from the world, if that's ok?

[110billion.livejournal.com]

Fix up your speeling in the post before you do, mmmkay? :)

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

nope

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

nope, sorry, too apathetic to do so ;)

[scien.livejournal.com]

That's a perfectly reasonable question, in that context.