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so i've applied (with cover letter and resume and everything -- it's so crazy) for a Bar Staff position in the StX bar for next year. pays a little money, couple of nights a week, comes with guaranteed (but sadly not subsidized -- can't have everything) housing.
requires an interview. i get an e-mail last week from M the Bursar, saying please can they interview me this coming thursday, 3 march, at 2pm.
i write back saying i have a tutorial on thursday at 2pm and asking for a different time.
this is not, by the way, the first time they've done this -- it seems to be their habit, to just [waves wand] schedule people for things, without any regard for the fact that we're, you know, students and might have an academic obligation here and there. obviously they can't keep everyone's weekly timetable at their fingertips, but if they're going to need to schedule things, you'd think they could ask people for some indication of when they're free, rather than making all the work for themselves after the fact. there are so few hours in a student's week that are non-negotiably committed to academic obligations -- but tutorials are the holiest of the holy. you can ditch a lecture (and people do it all the time), but a tutorial is a one-on-one (or, in my case, two-on-one) meeting with a professor, and is not to be missed without (so say the exam regs) written permission. i imagine it's a little more relaxed than that, and if i were running a 103-degree fever or similar i wouldn't get in trouble for telling the prof i wasn't going to be able to make it, but you get the idea.
e-mail comes from M the Bursar just now, saying they can move the interview to next thursday, 10 march -- at 2pm.
i don't know whether to laugh or cry.
[eta: in response to my reply "It's a weekly tutorial; Thursday 2pm is the *only time* out of the week that I can't make it", M the Bursar has e-mailed: "We are now offering next Friday 11 March at 1.45 pm. This is our final offer!" i'm choosing to believe that the tone of this is joke-y, because i'll tell you what, i don't think enough people applied that they can refuse to hire me on the grounds that they couldn't schedule an interview in one of the 39 hours per working week that i am free this term. :-) but, whatev. i am free next friday at 1:45, and said so, and wrote it in my calendar in ink, and apologized for my schedule making everything so difficult. (one hour out of 40, i'm booked. rar.) so it is, as they say, sorted.]
requires an interview. i get an e-mail last week from M the Bursar, saying please can they interview me this coming thursday, 3 march, at 2pm.
i write back saying i have a tutorial on thursday at 2pm and asking for a different time.
this is not, by the way, the first time they've done this -- it seems to be their habit, to just [waves wand] schedule people for things, without any regard for the fact that we're, you know, students and might have an academic obligation here and there. obviously they can't keep everyone's weekly timetable at their fingertips, but if they're going to need to schedule things, you'd think they could ask people for some indication of when they're free, rather than making all the work for themselves after the fact. there are so few hours in a student's week that are non-negotiably committed to academic obligations -- but tutorials are the holiest of the holy. you can ditch a lecture (and people do it all the time), but a tutorial is a one-on-one (or, in my case, two-on-one) meeting with a professor, and is not to be missed without (so say the exam regs) written permission. i imagine it's a little more relaxed than that, and if i were running a 103-degree fever or similar i wouldn't get in trouble for telling the prof i wasn't going to be able to make it, but you get the idea.
e-mail comes from M the Bursar just now, saying they can move the interview to next thursday, 10 march -- at 2pm.
i don't know whether to laugh or cry.
[eta: in response to my reply "It's a weekly tutorial; Thursday 2pm is the *only time* out of the week that I can't make it", M the Bursar has e-mailed: "We are now offering next Friday 11 March at 1.45 pm. This is our final offer!" i'm choosing to believe that the tone of this is joke-y, because i'll tell you what, i don't think enough people applied that they can refuse to hire me on the grounds that they couldn't schedule an interview in one of the 39 hours per working week that i am free this term. :-) but, whatev. i am free next friday at 1:45, and said so, and wrote it in my calendar in ink, and apologized for my schedule making everything so difficult. (one hour out of 40, i'm booked. rar.) so it is, as they say, sorted.]
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