(no subject)
Mar. 14th, 2004 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jdmkleinSomething somewhere is being stupid. i am trying to renew my subscription for another year, and i keep getting an error message. Now it will be at least a week before i can try again. Or maybe 5 days.
My eyes itch, my ears are scratchy and my throat is dry and akky tasting. The good news is i don't have a fever. Oh Darn! i am too dedicated to my profession otherwise i would have stayed home today and tried to nip this thing in the bud, nip it, nip it, nip it. Now it will probably hang on another two or three days. My cough sounds phoney, a poor pitiful me cough. And there is tightness in my chest yet. Methinks Dubai sucks.
But here is what i really need to get off my chest. i am working with three others on the last course revision. There is a book but it was written by a nurse, not a TESOL person. She was more inclined to get the students through anatomy than help them with English. Hence the revision.
Now, so far, i've had three texts that i was specifically asked to write be dumped. * (edit: this happened some time before winter break) And today, the coordinator of the project tried to pawn off, to me, something i had written as her own. How dumb is that? i had asked her a question about a task i was assigned to do. She answered it, and a few minutes later came into my office with a picture she said i might like to use. It will photocopy better than the one i have so i took it. Then i asked her another question. She answered and left my office. About 15 minutes later she came back into my office and put a piece of paper on my desk. She told me it was something she had worked up for the task i had been given, and if i wanted to use it i was free to. i didn't look at it right away but said thanks and she left.
When i had finished what i was doing, the assigned task, i looked at the paper she put on my desk. There was my work. At first i was going to let it pass, yet again. i have not made any complaints about the work i have done being dumped. nIt has not been dumped because it was of poor quality, but because she had changed her mind about the direction she wanted to take. No other person in the group has had work dumped for this reason. But this time i decided to see just what she was up to. Actually, i wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. I wanted to see if she would own up to the 'mistake'. So i went into her office and asked her if she had put the paper on my desk. She said yes. i said, hmmm, this is my work. She looked at me, straight in the eye, and said, oh, she had found it on the corner of her desk and didn't remember where it came from. That was a bold faced lie. She grabbed it off the printer and took it as her own. Unless of course the paper sprouted legs and walked from the printer to her office. There simply wasn't time for something like that to happen, even if it could.
What i don't understand is how she could have thought she could get away with something as stupid as that. It is beyond my ability to comprehend. She lied to me. It is just that simple. There are four of us working on this project. One can do no wrong, and i admit she is quite good at what we are doing.But she is a bit anal. She wants to drill every single thing into the students' heads before moving on to another objective. There is another who can do the work but is lazy. Him, she will work unto death with, helping him to revise what he does on the one hand while saying mean and nasty things about him on the other. My work, which is absolutely acceptable, and at the very least on a par with what she does, either gets pitched or taken as her own. This is going to happen one more time, and then i am going to respectfully decline to do anymore work on this project. She will get her knickers in a knot, and spit and fume and rant and slam doors and stomp her feet like the spoiled child she is, but i don't care.
She can go to Jamal and complain, and i will tell him my side. i am easy going, i will do whatever task is assigned to me, and i do demand respect. Just because i don't go all pissy in public, doesn't mean i am not smart enough to know what is going on. It simply means i have more respect for myself and the people with whom i work. She pulls one more stunt like this and she and i are going to have at it. And she will come out the worse for the wear. That is all i am going to say about it.
Damnbitch!
My eyes itch, my ears are scratchy and my throat is dry and akky tasting. The good news is i don't have a fever. Oh Darn! i am too dedicated to my profession otherwise i would have stayed home today and tried to nip this thing in the bud, nip it, nip it, nip it. Now it will probably hang on another two or three days. My cough sounds phoney, a poor pitiful me cough. And there is tightness in my chest yet. Methinks Dubai sucks.
But here is what i really need to get off my chest. i am working with three others on the last course revision. There is a book but it was written by a nurse, not a TESOL person. She was more inclined to get the students through anatomy than help them with English. Hence the revision.
Now, so far, i've had three texts that i was specifically asked to write be dumped. * (edit: this happened some time before winter break) And today, the coordinator of the project tried to pawn off, to me, something i had written as her own. How dumb is that? i had asked her a question about a task i was assigned to do. She answered it, and a few minutes later came into my office with a picture she said i might like to use. It will photocopy better than the one i have so i took it. Then i asked her another question. She answered and left my office. About 15 minutes later she came back into my office and put a piece of paper on my desk. She told me it was something she had worked up for the task i had been given, and if i wanted to use it i was free to. i didn't look at it right away but said thanks and she left.
When i had finished what i was doing, the assigned task, i looked at the paper she put on my desk. There was my work. At first i was going to let it pass, yet again. i have not made any complaints about the work i have done being dumped. nIt has not been dumped because it was of poor quality, but because she had changed her mind about the direction she wanted to take. No other person in the group has had work dumped for this reason. But this time i decided to see just what she was up to. Actually, i wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. I wanted to see if she would own up to the 'mistake'. So i went into her office and asked her if she had put the paper on my desk. She said yes. i said, hmmm, this is my work. She looked at me, straight in the eye, and said, oh, she had found it on the corner of her desk and didn't remember where it came from. That was a bold faced lie. She grabbed it off the printer and took it as her own. Unless of course the paper sprouted legs and walked from the printer to her office. There simply wasn't time for something like that to happen, even if it could.
What i don't understand is how she could have thought she could get away with something as stupid as that. It is beyond my ability to comprehend. She lied to me. It is just that simple. There are four of us working on this project. One can do no wrong, and i admit she is quite good at what we are doing.But she is a bit anal. She wants to drill every single thing into the students' heads before moving on to another objective. There is another who can do the work but is lazy. Him, she will work unto death with, helping him to revise what he does on the one hand while saying mean and nasty things about him on the other. My work, which is absolutely acceptable, and at the very least on a par with what she does, either gets pitched or taken as her own. This is going to happen one more time, and then i am going to respectfully decline to do anymore work on this project. She will get her knickers in a knot, and spit and fume and rant and slam doors and stomp her feet like the spoiled child she is, but i don't care.
She can go to Jamal and complain, and i will tell him my side. i am easy going, i will do whatever task is assigned to me, and i do demand respect. Just because i don't go all pissy in public, doesn't mean i am not smart enough to know what is going on. It simply means i have more respect for myself and the people with whom i work. She pulls one more stunt like this and she and i are going to have at it. And she will come out the worse for the wear. That is all i am going to say about it.
Damnbitch!
