Alkarii wrote:
Oh, so there's the problem: She's a smoker. That shit ain't sexy.
Then why do we somebody is smokin' hot?
Checkmate!
One of my English teachers is so incompetent it makes my blood boil, she just plays every class by ear and teaches us super basic stuff, like middle school level English, in a Master's degree. Yet she's completely obsessed with having control over the class and trying to force people to attend with vague threats of being able to influence our grades and our thesis and stuff, she will show up late every time and then snarks at whoever went outside for a smoke or a coffee while waiting. She's also supposed to work in tandem with another teacher to make a common course, and she only just now talked to him for the first time, even though she had since September to do so.
All of this wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for two things:
We can't skip her class or sign out, because she actually does have the power to prevent us from obtaining the diploma (and she's quick to remind people of this)
She was on sick leave last year because of manic depression, now at first that garnered some sympathy for her. But she basically blew away all sympathy everyone had for her with her moronic, unprepared, boring, useless classes, also her psychotic insistence on us being present, attentive, and smiling at her all the time (no joke, she actually berates us for not smiling in class). But the depressive episode means that, under French law, she's as good as un-fireable as long as she shows up once a year. If she were fired now she could swing back at the school with a lawsuit.
Our chief of staff called her a "kook", our head professor a "joker". We've been told to ignore her as best as possible and just weather her classes, because apparently nobody can do anything about her.
Today this situation reached the height of infuriating ridiculousness, as she tasked us with putting together a vocab list on the computer. She gave us 40 minutes and then left, we finished in 5 minutes, thanks to...how to say this...
you can just get vocab lists by Googling them!After that we got a 30min break, because she needed one bad apparently. Then she took 5 minutes to find a beginner's English course on the internet and had us to do it. Then to top of it, she asked us each to choose a character from the Simpsons whose name we were to be identified with, nobody knows how or where she got this idea, not what the purpose of it is.