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May. 14th, 2020 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesSo far this morning the postdoc admissions coordinator has been up my ass about information I don't have, which he asked the incoming student for. The Registrar has been up my ass about information I don't have, which she asked the admissions coordinator to ask the incoming student for, and I didn't even know the student had been asked. I need some assurance that this is really part of a postdoc program administrator's job, and the admissions and Registrar's offices didn't just decide to get upset with me for not doing their jobs for them.
The problem is it never seems to work the same way twice. Last year all the communication went between admissions/Registrar and the incoming student, and nobody ever asked me for anything. This year apparently they'll communicate with the incoming student without telling me, and then ask me for the answers, so I'm massively confused.
So instead of sending the emails I really wanted to send, which consisted of "In what universe does it make any sense for me to be doing this? Do your own damn job!", I went in the other room and cried for a while (it wasn't just that, it was eight and a half weeks of accumulated frustration), and then came back and wrote my boss an email that said I needed some clarification on what exactly I'm supposed to do, and could we sort that out when we've calmed down the DMD students?
On top of which, the manure pile hit the rotating air circulator yesterday when the rising second year DMD students found out they won't be on campus until January, so now we have a meeting with them today and it's going to be a mess. I hope we can calm them down in an hour, but I doubt it, because the first question they sent was "We get tuition and rent refunded, right?"
It's supposed to be nice out today. It was supposed to be nice out yesterday, but it was cold because it was windy. I'm not quite so inclined to throw myself out an open window just now, but I'd like to be able to open a couple and not have the heat come on.
The problem is it never seems to work the same way twice. Last year all the communication went between admissions/Registrar and the incoming student, and nobody ever asked me for anything. This year apparently they'll communicate with the incoming student without telling me, and then ask me for the answers, so I'm massively confused.
So instead of sending the emails I really wanted to send, which consisted of "In what universe does it make any sense for me to be doing this? Do your own damn job!", I went in the other room and cried for a while (it wasn't just that, it was eight and a half weeks of accumulated frustration), and then came back and wrote my boss an email that said I needed some clarification on what exactly I'm supposed to do, and could we sort that out when we've calmed down the DMD students?
On top of which, the manure pile hit the rotating air circulator yesterday when the rising second year DMD students found out they won't be on campus until January, so now we have a meeting with them today and it's going to be a mess. I hope we can calm them down in an hour, but I doubt it, because the first question they sent was "We get tuition and rent refunded, right?"
It's supposed to be nice out today. It was supposed to be nice out yesterday, but it was cold because it was windy. I'm not quite so inclined to throw myself out an open window just now, but I'd like to be able to open a couple and not have the heat come on.
