Rant Version 5.1
Why oh why oh why must Commerce students be so annoying?
Yet again we have the mass email syndrome going. It starts with some highly intelligent 95+ ENTER score student emailing the ENTIRE student list about some inane topic, and then every smart-ass in the faculty feeling like its his or her god-given-right to chime in with some kind of comment (also cc’d to the entire faculty). One particular mere male – “Danny” proceeded to write an essay style response discussing the aforementioned inane topic (i’m talking 500+ words here) which was written in a way that required reading with a pompous english voice overlay….(he wasn’t english mind you, judging by the last name!).
Do people lack social contact in this faculty to the point where they feel the need to communicate with a couple of hundred strangers via email about the most unimportant matters, so that they get their “social fix” for the day?! It is cause for concern when people are struggling to find important emails from Professors, clubs ect.
I believe students should only have access to class and faculty lists through an administrative process. I know – more work for someone – but less work for the rest of us who have to deal with 50 + random emails per day.
Society is mind-numbing sometimes.
I was just about to blog about this issue. I thought it was over after people sold their books earlier in the semester.
It started with someone sending out an email alerting the owner of a usb drive he had found, with the wish to return it. I can deal with an extra email if it means someone can retrieve their lost property. However, the 20 or so subsequent emails were just damn annoying.
I mean, if you were gonna spam everyone, at least make it funny. NONE of them were funny.
Their names are there for everyone to see. For everyone to witness their stupidity and ill sense of humour. It’s a great way to lose friends and contact with acquaintances too.
All you spammers are giving spam a bad name. Spam is actually great on the bbq (with added salt and soy sauce) and as I have found out, it’s quite expensive in comparison to fresh meet (by $/g).
Just resist the ‘reply all’ button. It’s that easy.
I feel your pain Sophie! It’s the same in Arts. When the student handbook wasn’t out in time for re-enrollment last year my inbox was flooded with e-mails. I didn’t mind so much, but I’m a bit of a procrastinator and a few of them made me laugh.
I got this from someone who’d changed their name to Ben Cousins:
Hi,
Is anyone else having trouble reading the pharmacy handbook? Turns out I’m
going to have a bit of spare time next year, so I thought I might apply
for the pharmacy course at Melbourne University. But I am struggling to
read the handbook.
And there was also one from Voldemort that I think I’ve deleted.
Hey, don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it – you’d be surprised at how much fun it is. Nevermind the fact half the responses are abusive; I cannot communicate how much intellectual stimulation one can derive from mass-emailing a whole swag of people you don’t know. This is especially so when they are of limited mental faculty.
Funnily enough, staff do it too – back in ’06 the assistant of the then Assistant Dean of the Education Faculty Dr Kieran O’Loughlin, sent out ‘spammage’ to every single Commerce subject distribution list.
It’s surprising how much inane droll exists out there – a large extent of the internet is simply that. Even this comment. To make it even more so, I’ll even add a shocker from a couple of years back:
***
Enhance the size of your marks in 333-308 Entrepreneurial Finance!
Wanted:
1 or 2 members to join the A Team.
If you would like to join the A Team on our quest for case study supremacy, please reply to this email. Seeking intelligent, affable people to work with on the case studies. Reply with a little about yourself, what you bring to the table, and which tutorial group you are enrolled in.* If you are not interested, replies containing email abuse are also encouraged.
I will endeavour to get back to all interested parties ASAP; precedence given to early respondents and whoever was wearing that striking red rider’s hat last week.
About Us:
1.
> Modest achieving student however desperate for good marks
> A “Cool” geek who enjoys staying home on the weekend
> Part time fashion critic who enjoys Rap music, reading and basketball
2.
> An esoteric geek with a post-conventional perspective and dry, sharp wit
> 6 years experience in the stockmarket and investment management
> Part time writer, realist, existentialist, philanthropist
> Still trying find the emergency exits in the ‘friend zone’
Between us, we even have tall, dark and handsome covered.
*Note:
No free-riders, investors in this venture are expected to take an active role in management.
***
PXW
Hunts Heroes, Impresario Capital
Thosw were the days. I’m surpiressed you still have that email.
Hope your doing well NASDAQ.
“I mean, if you were gonna spam everyone, at least make it funny. NONE of them were funny. ”
=> I concur!
XD
Gekko,
Indeed those were the days – though it seems like a lifetime ago. I’ve felt incredibly old ever since I got a mortgage.
Nice coinage of the hybrid between ‘surprised’ and ‘impressed’ by the way. Pure class.
Funnily enough that ‘NASDAQ’ tag has stuck – after someone told the story to one of the guys at work, I’ve been known by that name ever since.
What have you been up to lately mate? Drop me an email.
Cheers,
PXW
P.S. Sincerest apologies for spamming your blog Sophie, by way of recompense, next waffle conference at Max Brenner’s is on me.
“2.
> An esoteric geek with a post-conventional perspective and dry, sharp wit
> 6 years experience in the stockmarket and investment management
> Part time writer, realist, existentialist, philanthropist
> Still trying find the emergency exits in the ‘friend zone’ ”
Having read your blogs, I have a feeling that this person is you Waterstone!
Hopefully, I don’t come across as a stalker, I just like your blogs.
David