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Oh my fucking word.
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I may comit a murder.
So my essay that I done last night.. after spending hours quickly typing it all and trying to find references, I needn't have bothered, apparently.
My printer at Uni doesn't work. So I got up in plenty of time today to make I could print it off and hand it in before the deadline (12.00). At about 10.45 I went to use my flatmates printer. After a couple of failed attempts, we realised it'd run out of black ink, so she told me to change the colour of the text to a dark navy, and she'd use the colour cartridge. So, after spending a while changing the colour of the text to the darkest possible navy colour, I went back to her room and tried to re-print. Waited a little while, and then she tells me that the colour cartridge had run out of ink too. Pain in the arse, but not too much of a problem, it was about 11.20 by this point, so I still had plenty of time to go to the library and print my work off there. So off I toddled. Of course, because I never go to the library (oops!), I didn't realise how bloody busy it'd be. Anyway, printed my work off.. eventually, after alot of waiting in a queue and pulling my hair out, my work printed. This was a good 15-20 minutes later. So by this time it's almost 11.55. Shit. So I ran down to the reception (which is about 10 minutes away), and get there about 1 minute past 12. Just as I walked in, I saw the woman come over the submission box to empty it. I grabbed a front sheet, and she said to me, "Hurry up if you're giving work in now, I'm just about to empty the box." So, my heart beating a thousand times to the second, I breathed a short shy of relief, thinking, "I've just made it!" So I scribbled my information down on the front sheet, (I've never been a fast writer, filling it out in 10 seconds was quite an acomplishment for me) and was just stapling it together as the woman comes back with the box. Just as I went to hand it to her she says, "It's too late now, the box has been emptied. Put it back in the box where it'll go in the late pile." She's lucky she didn't get a black eye.
So, what a waste of bloody effort. My essay that was no more than 2 minutes late, goes into a pile of work which is anything upto 2 weeks late. Obviously I needn't have bothered working on it last night, as now my mark is automatically capped at 40. Jesus Christ, come off it lady, late? She hadn't even emptied the box when I walked in there.
I'm so frustrated I could cry. Hmph.
So my essay that I done last night.. after spending hours quickly typing it all and trying to find references, I needn't have bothered, apparently.
My printer at Uni doesn't work. So I got up in plenty of time today to make I could print it off and hand it in before the deadline (12.00). At about 10.45 I went to use my flatmates printer. After a couple of failed attempts, we realised it'd run out of black ink, so she told me to change the colour of the text to a dark navy, and she'd use the colour cartridge. So, after spending a while changing the colour of the text to the darkest possible navy colour, I went back to her room and tried to re-print. Waited a little while, and then she tells me that the colour cartridge had run out of ink too. Pain in the arse, but not too much of a problem, it was about 11.20 by this point, so I still had plenty of time to go to the library and print my work off there. So off I toddled. Of course, because I never go to the library (oops!), I didn't realise how bloody busy it'd be. Anyway, printed my work off.. eventually, after alot of waiting in a queue and pulling my hair out, my work printed. This was a good 15-20 minutes later. So by this time it's almost 11.55. Shit. So I ran down to the reception (which is about 10 minutes away), and get there about 1 minute past 12. Just as I walked in, I saw the woman come over the submission box to empty it. I grabbed a front sheet, and she said to me, "Hurry up if you're giving work in now, I'm just about to empty the box." So, my heart beating a thousand times to the second, I breathed a short shy of relief, thinking, "I've just made it!" So I scribbled my information down on the front sheet, (I've never been a fast writer, filling it out in 10 seconds was quite an acomplishment for me) and was just stapling it together as the woman comes back with the box. Just as I went to hand it to her she says, "It's too late now, the box has been emptied. Put it back in the box where it'll go in the late pile." She's lucky she didn't get a black eye.
So, what a waste of bloody effort. My essay that was no more than 2 minutes late, goes into a pile of work which is anything upto 2 weeks late. Obviously I needn't have bothered working on it last night, as now my mark is automatically capped at 40. Jesus Christ, come off it lady, late? She hadn't even emptied the box when I walked in there.
I'm so frustrated I could cry. Hmph.
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:banghead: What a miserable bitch she sounds.
That's a disgrace.
Also, I can't believe they cap it at 40. In my uni they take 5 marks off for every day late up until 5 days and then you will just get zero.
Ha, let it go?! Is he joking?! I want me bloody marks! And I'll get them, I don't mind who I have to kill.
I'm gonna email the Unit Co-ordinator now.. maybe she'll ask me for a meeting, which would be handy, 'cause then the water works will come on and work a treat!
We just get told that it's our own fault for not leaving ourselves enough leeway.
Hugs for you
can't believe it.
I'd make a big fuss, sometimes you just have to have a loud maw to get your approval.
definitely complain.
I'd probably break down in tears tbh because like you said, I'd want the marks.
*hug*
You should definately complain to someone. Or find the woman and continuously poke her with a stick until she becomes a mushy pulp. :eek2: