Don’t Be that Guy

I kind of miss Twitter for making complaints like this, but at least now the complaint remains my own content I guess. Please don’t be that colleague who creates more work for their fellow faculty.

Last night one of my advisees e-mailed me asking how a professor changes an incorrect grade. The reason they e-mailed me is that their professor told them to figure it out and get back to them. The instructions for how to do this were contained in a message that goes out every semester to all faculty. It is entirely the responsibility of the faculty member who made the error. But because this colleague couldn’t be bothered to figure this out and instead put the burden on a first-year student, I had to take time to help. Was it much time? No. But it adds up when some of us take our responsibilities seriously and others do everything they can to offload their own work on others, even their own students.

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