Steno School Update
Jan. 15th, 2021 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taz_39I'm gonna make my usual blog post on Friday instead of Thursday because I've got an extra day off this week. Just so you know!
A quick update on my steno school situation:
After spending my Monday 1/4 class time trying to figure out why my steno test content is not visible to my teachers, and still not coming up with a solution, I asked for a make-up class on Saturday 1/9. Tech support says I need to update my software, which I did, then they said the teachers need to update their software, which they didn't. But that still doesn't explain why I'm the only student whose test results aren't visible.
Personally, I suspect the apostrophe. This will probably sound crazy to people who don't have non-text symbols in their names, but having an apostrophe or other such character in your name can really mess things up for you. In undergrad, my apostrophe crashed the school's entire financial aid system for a day because they had two accounts for me, one with the apostrophe and one without, and opening them both at the same time created an error that wrecked the system.
But anyway, I conveyed all of this to my teachers and tried to move on with a make-up class. So from Monday 1/4 to Saturday 1/9, no solution has been found for my tests not going through. Oh well, I guess I won't submit any work??
The Saturday class was scheduled for 11am. I emailed my teacher twice requesting that time and asking her to let me know if it wasn't ok. Two hours before the class she emailed asking if I had requested noon. I responded with, no, I requested 11am, 11AM EST. If that doesn't work for you, please let me know. She emailed back, "It's fine!" so I thought nothing of it.
So I sat around until almost quarter after 11 before my teacher sent the zoom link. When we were finally in the class and about 10 minutes in, my teacher's phone rang and she interrupted the class to go take a delivery that she had been expecting. When she came back she said, "This is why I was hoping our class was at noon". I almost hung up.
Anyway, got through the class and right before hanging up, my teacher said, "See you on Monday!"
This makes sense because my classes are usually on Mondays. And Monday was in two days. Please note that she didn't say "See you next Monday!" or "See you on [specific date]", just "See you on Monday". From this I construed "Monday" to mean "this Monday" or "Monday January 11".
So I show up at our usual class time on Monday night, 8:15pm. No link from my teacher. Not surprising, she often sends the link late.
I waited and waited. After 15 minutes I emailed her asking if something had come up. Not unusual, I've had to do that before too.
I waited another 15 minutes, then began writing a letter to my school's advisory department, pretty much detailing all of these experiences starting from my teacher's outburst before Christmas and up to my present experience of wasting an hour of my time waiting for an absent teacher.
By the time I finished there was still no response or explanation of her absence. So I sent the email.
The next morning at 8:19 am (timestamped), I got an email from my teacher saying, "I sent you an email saying class was cancelled!". This was closely followed by an email timestamped 8:39am 1/12, but worded as though it had been sent the previous evening (i.e. "Hey, I have a conference call tonight and can't make our class", and yes that's what it actually said). It was NOT a forwarded email, such as you might see if she had sent the email the night before and resent it for me to see. And there were no other timestamps besides 1/12, 8:39am. I even checked the code.
So that's it you guys. I'm sooooo done. This is such juvenile, unprofessional bullshit. I cannot BELIEVE that she actually took the time to fake an email and send it the day after. I cannot believe that this teacher yelled at me for not doing evaluations and tests, but then when I do actually do them and she can't see them it's nowhere near a priority to get that fixed so I can advance in the class. Half of the shit that has happened in the past month with this school make me think I must be losing my mind, or that maybe I'm misinterpreting events. But, truly, that's not the case. This is actually happening. I've got a teacher who doesn't show up to class and then forges next-day emails as a sad effort to cover her ass.
The advisory department received my email, and I have a meeting with them today at 1pm. I could care less about all of this drama; all I want is to get a refund of the tuition I just paid for this semester, and to get out. This whole thing has already been a huge mistake, and staying here would be an even bigger one. This had better be a short meeting.
A quick update on my steno school situation:
After spending my Monday 1/4 class time trying to figure out why my steno test content is not visible to my teachers, and still not coming up with a solution, I asked for a make-up class on Saturday 1/9. Tech support says I need to update my software, which I did, then they said the teachers need to update their software, which they didn't. But that still doesn't explain why I'm the only student whose test results aren't visible.
Personally, I suspect the apostrophe. This will probably sound crazy to people who don't have non-text symbols in their names, but having an apostrophe or other such character in your name can really mess things up for you. In undergrad, my apostrophe crashed the school's entire financial aid system for a day because they had two accounts for me, one with the apostrophe and one without, and opening them both at the same time created an error that wrecked the system.
But anyway, I conveyed all of this to my teachers and tried to move on with a make-up class. So from Monday 1/4 to Saturday 1/9, no solution has been found for my tests not going through. Oh well, I guess I won't submit any work??
The Saturday class was scheduled for 11am. I emailed my teacher twice requesting that time and asking her to let me know if it wasn't ok. Two hours before the class she emailed asking if I had requested noon. I responded with, no, I requested 11am, 11AM EST. If that doesn't work for you, please let me know. She emailed back, "It's fine!" so I thought nothing of it.
So I sat around until almost quarter after 11 before my teacher sent the zoom link. When we were finally in the class and about 10 minutes in, my teacher's phone rang and she interrupted the class to go take a delivery that she had been expecting. When she came back she said, "This is why I was hoping our class was at noon". I almost hung up.
Anyway, got through the class and right before hanging up, my teacher said, "See you on Monday!"
This makes sense because my classes are usually on Mondays. And Monday was in two days. Please note that she didn't say "See you next Monday!" or "See you on [specific date]", just "See you on Monday". From this I construed "Monday" to mean "this Monday" or "Monday January 11".
So I show up at our usual class time on Monday night, 8:15pm. No link from my teacher. Not surprising, she often sends the link late.
I waited and waited. After 15 minutes I emailed her asking if something had come up. Not unusual, I've had to do that before too.
I waited another 15 minutes, then began writing a letter to my school's advisory department, pretty much detailing all of these experiences starting from my teacher's outburst before Christmas and up to my present experience of wasting an hour of my time waiting for an absent teacher.
By the time I finished there was still no response or explanation of her absence. So I sent the email.
The next morning at 8:19 am (timestamped), I got an email from my teacher saying, "I sent you an email saying class was cancelled!". This was closely followed by an email timestamped 8:39am 1/12, but worded as though it had been sent the previous evening (i.e. "Hey, I have a conference call tonight and can't make our class", and yes that's what it actually said). It was NOT a forwarded email, such as you might see if she had sent the email the night before and resent it for me to see. And there were no other timestamps besides 1/12, 8:39am. I even checked the code.
So that's it you guys. I'm sooooo done. This is such juvenile, unprofessional bullshit. I cannot BELIEVE that she actually took the time to fake an email and send it the day after. I cannot believe that this teacher yelled at me for not doing evaluations and tests, but then when I do actually do them and she can't see them it's nowhere near a priority to get that fixed so I can advance in the class. Half of the shit that has happened in the past month with this school make me think I must be losing my mind, or that maybe I'm misinterpreting events. But, truly, that's not the case. This is actually happening. I've got a teacher who doesn't show up to class and then forges next-day emails as a sad effort to cover her ass.
The advisory department received my email, and I have a meeting with them today at 1pm. I could care less about all of this drama; all I want is to get a refund of the tuition I just paid for this semester, and to get out. This whole thing has already been a huge mistake, and staying here would be an even bigger one. This had better be a short meeting.
