Today was my first proper day off in weeks. As in, a day where I had nothing planned; no lying builders/plumbers/roofers/electricians coming in to break my house, no appointments, no places I had to be, and no Mr Door hovering to make me feel guilty about not doing my essay. Proper, honest-to-God me time.
So I get up about lunch time. Because I can, goddammit. I potter about, have a cup of tea and a biscuit, and decide to check my emails. I see I have one from the university. I am filled with a sense of dread. Rightly so, as it turns out. One sentence jumps out at me and my heart tries to climb out of my body using my oesophagus as some sort of rope ladder.
blah blah blah fitness to practice procedure blah blah blah
Shitshitshitshitshit.
My first thought is...Who did I kill?
I take a deep breath and force myself to read it again.
Turns out, I didn't kill anyone. Thank fuck.
Turns out, my tutor didn't check his emails and is accusing me of not replying to a previous email relating to attendence at uni. See also this post.
Because he didn't check his emails, he was threatening to initiate fitness to practice procedures against me.
Luckily, being the cynical and paranoid person I am, and being fully aware of how useless the uni is, I had saved my previous correspondance and CC'd various other departments in when I initially replied. So it was sorted quickly and
After which, I was able to finally stop cursing and return my heart to it's rightful place, although it took another hour to stop the palpitations.
Kinda put a dent in my relaxing me time. I might as well do my essay now.
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oh YUCK! That's awful! How DARE they???
OMG. I'd have been unfit to practice after something like that. Cardiac arrest and all! I've had similar at work, complaints and stuff, bloody public....
Lola x
little d - it's pretty standard operating procedure there I think...they fuck up and you suffer...still pissed off about it.
Lola - I've had complaints by patients before, which is at least understandable, but to come so close to being reported over something THEY FUCKED UP is just unbelievable...urgh. Wankers.
i feel that your tutor would benefit from a "how to read my emails and not be a complete nobber" procedure
marge - he has a billion letters after his name but apparently email reading wasn't taught in any of those courses...
"fitness to practice procedure"
bit ott for missing a lecture...
That sucks big time. I know what you mean about the "heart in mouth feeling"
(similarish f*** up when I wasn't allowed to attend a BLS/moving and handling update due to being declared unfit for practice, then being told that I was going to be called to panel for non-attendance).
Glad to hear that it got sorted though, even if an apology seems to be too much to ask for.
Hope you enjoy(ed) your time off.
Take care,
Differenlty
hmm makes me wonder if we have the same teachers..lol sorry that they scared the crap outta ya
Socrates - They thought I'd missed several lectures (which I hadn't, they fucked up the register) but I think they were more angered by what they percieved to be my disobedience. Any other school (eg social sciences) and they would have sent me 20 letters threatening to kick me out and then done nothing...based on previous experience :o)
Dif - I enjoyed it after I took some funky painkillers that finally managed to chill me out...it's an awful feeling isn't it?
LivingDeadNurse - was very scary...seems to be bad teachers are universal...
cd... mmm. 'suppose missing two lectures on how to spot the signs of EPS could be seen as quite naughty...
I'm left slightly humbled when I think back to my student days...
Socrates - I wish we got taught how to spot the signs of EPSE, if I did miss any it was more likely to have been on reflection... :o) I attended all the lectures and signed some bits of paper, which the records office promptly threw away and marked us absent for. When asked about my alleged absence I replied with an email, which my tutor didn't read, and then threatened me with FtP for not replying. *Sigh*
bloody hell, you might as well have poked your eye with a pointy stick to continue your day of relaxation!
How bleh.
That's appalling. If I were you, i think i'd want to make a formal complaint against both the tutor and the admin office. But i can see that you might not want to, for reasons of not wanting to be marked down in the future.
I'm glad it got sorted anyway.
Bloo - I had other ideas for the pointy stick, but your point was taken :o)
cb - yes :o)
A - I would love to make a formal complaint, unfortunately it would be against the man who will be providing me with a reference at the end of my course and who has the potantial to scupper any chances of me getting a good first post. *sigh* I just have to put my faith in karma and hope he is reincarnated as a dung beetle...
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