Right, I'm really fed up with one of the joints I work at now. Bad organisation, no proper moderating, random grading, unprofessional behaviour with students now this!

I take a seminar group on a Monday afternoon, and got an email this morning, from the person who was meant to be giving today's lecture, that she had to cancel her lecture because she was ill. I heard nothing about the seminars, but there had been some suggestion of a replacement for this potentially ill person in a prior email, so, being uncertain as to what was happening, I turned up to teach my group as usual, after all I do get paid to this and if no-one says 'you're off work' then, in my book, I'm in. None of the studes turned up, so 35 minutes in I emailed the module leader saying: 'I am presuming the seminars are cancelled, I have no students.' I get this reply from him saying '**** sent an email to us all last night saying the lecture was cancelled, so, yes the seminars can't take place'. To me, ****'s email did not mean the seminars were cancelled, just that her particular lecture was, there could have been a replacement, we could have run the seminar without the lecture and taught study skills (which is what I had planned to do any way). Whya are the students better informed than I am????????

I know this is a small thing, and it did give me a bit of nice extra time to catch up, but I'm so fed up things being so badly organised: last week I had to give turotials in the corridor because my room was double booked. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Moan over. Thanks for listening!

That would royally tick me off too Eska! You turned up when you could have been doing your own work all along. It's just rude isn't it?

I'm having similar thoughts about the supposed "professional" auditors who are coming in to check my project. They gave us the list of documents they'll require all of 3 days in advance, and changed the meeting time less than 24 hours before! And these are the people making sure that things are done properly?

Grrrrr indeed!

This has happened to me, Eska - more than once. Over the past year, some of my lectures have been cancelled and I was the last person to know. It takes me about 2 hours to get to my uni, 2 hours to get home - and this has meant I've lost productive days as a result. And, although I've never had to give lectures in the corridor, I've been subjected to moaning by my students because we've had to wait outside before I could start tutorials at the set time because of poor room planning and booking.