"I just want you to know they hate it."

groverat

I don't know if I've mentioned her before (I'm too lazy to go back and look) but there is a professor that works for our department who is Satan. And this isn't an exaggeration, all notions of atheism have been permanently removed from my mind because I honestly believe that this woman is Satan, and since she's Satan there must be God.



As proof I offer this; a few years ago they had to send the faculty of my department on a team-building retreat in Colorado because everyone wanted to slice this bitch's throat and bathe in her unholy blood.



But those are side matters.



They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Let me tell you, this bitch is squeaky (in addition to being Satan). And she is deadly, she will get your ass fired; she has killed and she will kill again. Let's call her JFG (because those are her initials).



She has ~6 graduate students working under her; helping with research, teaching classes and finding newborn babies to feed to her. They have held a computer lab in prime real estate for a while (space on a crowded campus is all about power) and the higher-ups had finally had enough so they moved them to less prime real estate in a smaller room (they didn't even use 1/2 the space they had before).



As a nice gesture the dean's office gets for her a brand new laser printer and 3 new computers (19" ultrasharp flat panel, DVD-RW, the whole thing). I set this place up myself (normally that's a job for the work-studies, but this is hellbitch and everything must be just-so) and everything is working like a dream.



*ring* *ring*

JFG: "Adam, my students hate the new lab, it hurts their eyes."

me: "What do you mean, the monitors?" (I'm the computer guy, I figure if she's calling me it must be about computers, RIGHT!?)

JFG: "No, the lighting is too harsh. The lightbulbs are really harsh they need to be changed."

me: "... ok... I can talk to Carolyn, I guess."

JFG: "I just want you to know they hate it. They hate it."

me: "heh... ok." (That "You're insane and I don't know how to deal with insane people." tone of voice.)

JFG: *click* (she hangs up immediately)



Brand new laser printer and 3 kick-ass new computers. They hate it. Perhaps they feel bad because in the new stronger lighting they actually see the expressions on the childrens' faces before shoving them into JFG's gaping fanged maw, but it seems to me this is her way of making waves and expressing dissatisfaction with losing the power struggle with the dean.



Lightbulbs? What the hell do I know about lightbulbs? Who changes lightbulbs? Who buys lightbulbs? What?



THEY HATE IT!

curiousuburb

So kill the overhead lighting and work by monitor glow like the rest of us!



I usually teach with a projector, so room lighting gets dimmed regardless of how awful it looks, but there are those who are sensitive to fluorescent bulbs hum and flicker as a cause of stress.



Bring a Lava lamp.

hardeeharhar

Yeah. Tell the grad students to remove the presumably uv lights, and provide them with 15 lava lamps of all sorts of colors.

dmz

Groverate, I would try the Darth Vader Line "perhaps you would like it back in your cell, you highness".



It's either that our you need to requsition those D50 whitepoint bulbs, ask her if you need to break out the GATF/RHEM strips and the spectrometer you keep in your desk.





Also, seroiusly 5000K light is pretty standard for proofing -- that metameric strip should shut her up.





but then she's probably used to it being 5000K......

hassan i sabbah

Candlelight is nice. You could get some scented candles, chocolate and jasmine and such. And some joss sticks. People would be very eager to come to the lab, and talk to each other there, discussing their research in an honest, open and tactile fashion. She might become a changed woman. An angel even.



I really like JFG. She's changed so much.

thinkingdifferent

Is there anybody at work that you like?

ipodandimac

i actually do hate fluorescent lighting (assuming that is what she is talking about.) obviously she should have called someone else, but it is a big issue because those lights cause eye fatigue and give a lot of people headaches.

buonrotto

How tall are the ceilings? If the room doesn't have them already (if they do and they're complaining, they truly are idjits) and the ceilings are 8-10' +/-, have them buy a few indirect floor lamps with halogen incandescent bulbs. If they complain about needing to change the bulbs too often, but them bulbs wholesale. If they complain about the room getting too hot, shoot them.

dmz

most flourestant, flurisent, flouresssent.... anyway.....they offer their bulbs in a number of "K" (Kelvin) ratings.





Or you could just go to radio shack and pick up a couple of strobes on your LAST day at work.

scott

It may be that they don't actually hate it. It's just what she is saying. She must bring in some large grant money or something?

mac on a mac

We will take the hated gear off of her hands.



Mac

groverat

ThinkingDifferent:



Oh yeah.

I like my work-studies. The girls don't know anything about computers but they're nice to talk to since we're around the same ago.

I like most of the professors, as I've mentioned in other posts most of them love me and we all get along great.

As I've mentioned in other threads, I work in Human Ecology, which means 95% female student population, which means a lot of pleasant eye candy.



My job is great. But posts about how much I like it are not fun. Maybe I should give it a shot anyway.



Scott:

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It may be that they don't actually hate it. It's just what she is saying. She must bring in some large grant money or something?

She draws a lot of water, yes, else she would have been out on her ass long ago. She's a fascist, her grad students do a ton of work and they are very loyal.

It would be one of those "wow, a mad genius" things if she actually worked with something more interesting than nutrition.



Her students become assholes simply because they're around her so much. I'm sure they hate it. They hated their old lab. They hate the world for not revolving around them.

kingofsomewherehot

Austin ?



UT ?



If so it's you're own darn fault ... there's a really nice school up the road in College Station with no JFG





Saw varsity's horns off !!!

scott

There's a JFG everywhere. We kind of have one where I work.

running with scissors

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Originally posted by KingOfSomewhereHot

Austin ?



UT ?



If so it's you're own darn fault ... there's a really nice school up the road in College Station with no JFG





Saw varsity's horns off !!!

they also have plenty of paranoid sheep there too.

mac on a mac

Why do they call UT people Tsips? Groverat? I have asked the UT guys here, but they either don't know or will not tell me.



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This is a sincere question and should not be misconstrued by the moderator as sarcasm, empty posting, evil doing or any activity disserving of temporary, permanent or IP banning.

groverat

Because during WWII, UT students sat around and sipped tea while Aggies went and fought.



It's the truth, and any inbred shit-kicking sheep-fucker will tell you as much.

dmz

Don't forget the the satanic hand gestures.