Frustrated
Anonymous feedback is undesireable in most cases because it allows people to be negative without taking ownership of their remarks.
Anonymous bitchy little notes are never good.
I arrived early for Systems this morning, and when I went to sit down, I saw our class's project vehicle sitting on the ground next to the table:
It had a note on it. The note reads,
"Systems Project
Please Do Not
Touch!
<3 Kate and Ben D"
There was also a smaller note scribbled on the piece of paper.
The small note reads,
"Then Don't put it in
everyone's workspace"
.
.
.
Okay. The car had been placed on the table at 5 pm yesterday, and there were no classes in the lab between 5 pm yesterday and 10 am today. So someone must have come in, taken offence at the fact that our car was occupying 4 square feet of table real estate, and felt the need to move it onto the floor and write the bitchy little note. For reference, I will provide some pictures of the lab.
Here is a dramatic recreation of the setup that the note-writer would have encountered. Please note that nothing else on the table is our mess. Just the car. Just. The. Car.
And here are some of the other workspaces in the lab.
It's really hard to tell what part of the mess is ours--no, wait, actually it's not, because the only things being used by or belonging to our class that appear in these pictures are the laptops, the humans, and the backpacks.
So, to the writer of the note: I'm sorry if the presence of our 2' x 2' vehicle severely impacted your ability to do work in the lab during the 15 hours when it was there. I would have liked to address this apology to you directly, but since you didn't see fit to sign your name, I can't do that.
Sigh.
It's the end of the semester, everything is a mess, and we all feel the need for adequate project space.
Anonymous bitchy little notes are never good.
I arrived early for Systems this morning, and when I went to sit down, I saw our class's project vehicle sitting on the ground next to the table:
It had a note on it. The note reads,
"Systems Project
Please Do Not
Touch!
<3 Kate and Ben D"
There was also a smaller note scribbled on the piece of paper.
The small note reads,
"Then Don't put it in
everyone's workspace"
.
.
.
Okay. The car had been placed on the table at 5 pm yesterday, and there were no classes in the lab between 5 pm yesterday and 10 am today. So someone must have come in, taken offence at the fact that our car was occupying 4 square feet of table real estate, and felt the need to move it onto the floor and write the bitchy little note. For reference, I will provide some pictures of the lab.
Here is a dramatic recreation of the setup that the note-writer would have encountered. Please note that nothing else on the table is our mess. Just the car. Just. The. Car.
And here are some of the other workspaces in the lab.
It's really hard to tell what part of the mess is ours--no, wait, actually it's not, because the only things being used by or belonging to our class that appear in these pictures are the laptops, the humans, and the backpacks.
So, to the writer of the note: I'm sorry if the presence of our 2' x 2' vehicle severely impacted your ability to do work in the lab during the 15 hours when it was there. I would have liked to address this apology to you directly, but since you didn't see fit to sign your name, I can't do that.
Sigh.
It's the end of the semester, everything is a mess, and we all feel the need for adequate project space.
Comments
I really don't like that the seniors feel they have some innate right to leave their crap in there. The front right desk has had a SCOPE project on it for weeks. I _used_ to sit there, but I moved back a desk to accomodate. I really sitting over there. I can hear the prof AND I can see the board. I didn't want this systems project to stay there till the end of semester. You were there to move it at 10am the next day, but I had no way of knowing this.
If there had been a time listed, or a lack of a SCOPE project on the desk ahead, or a less shitty day, I probably wouldn't have moved it, I would have just been pissed off. Please keep communal work areas open.