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A student just phoned me - he threatened to beat a colleague up
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| Lira |
2:00 AM - I receive a message: "Are you awake? If you are, please reply". It was from an unknown number. Jokingly, I replied.
2:05 AM - I receive a phone call:
"Pizza delivery, may I help you?" [I still thought it was a joke up to this point]
"Lira? I just did something really stupid." [His voice was really distressed]
"Who is this?"
"This is Akira* [He's my assistant]. I did something really really stupid"
"You broke up with Claire* last semester, and that was a pretty stupid thing to do. Please tell me you didn't break up with your new girlfriend, she's head over hee--"
"I threatened to kick professor Takahashi's* arse."
"You did what!?"
"Remember that, during his class, you came by the door and handed me some exams for me to correct?"
"Yes, of course, but that's not exactly unusual, and you did nothing wrong"
"Well, some students were making a very boring presentation, and I decided to correct them to spend the time."
"I'm listening"
"Professor Takahashi approached me and asked what I was doing. I said I was 'doing some stuff'. He said I wasn't showing my classmates any respect, and he said I should leave the classroom if I wanted to do something else. So I did."
"You bloody left the room?"
"Yes. But, that's not the stupid bit"
"Did you fart before you left?"
"After the class was over, I decided to have a word with him. But, I was so angry that, when I saw him, I pointed my finger at his forehead and said he was the one being disrespectful, because I was doing my thing, I didn't bother anyone else, and it was really rude to approach me like that. Then I said that, should he ever do it again, I'd kick his ing arse"
"WAT"
"Yeah, that's what he said. I then spelled it out for him. 'Assu kikku, do you understand that, professor Takahashi?', I said about to smash my fist into his face"
"Bloody hell, what the hell did you do that for? He's barely a threat to anyone!"
"Yeah, I know, I just committed academic suicide"
"All right, calm down. Where are you now?"
"I'm at a friend's place. Professor Takahashi is going back to Japan, right?"
"Yeah, he is... but not before telling everyone you threatened him"
"What do I do?"
"Well, what can I say? Had you phoned me after he expelled you from his class, I could've calmed you down or something. But..."
"I know, I know... I decided to call you because I see you as a friend. Still, I don't know what to do. I'm stressed and I was nervous and...."
"Listen, I can't talk to you right now because I'm at my rents' and everybody is sleeping. Are you free tomorrow night?"
"Yes, I am."
"Good. Talk to you tomorrow then."
"Thanks, I'm sorry"
"Well, you should be. But, I'll talk to you about that tomorrow night"
Wow, he's a good student, I can't really understand why he snapped like that. I'm still thinking about what the hell I can say to him now that he did such a stupid thing. I'm going to scold him for that tomorrow, and tell him to apologise straight away. But, if you were in my shoes, what would you do? I wonder how different TA's would react to this... I think I could use some different insights, given the gravity of this situation.
* The names have been changed to protect the guilty. |
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| idoru |
I did something similar at work at the beginning of the week. My manager, who is a guy I've worked with for over five years and am really close to, just sat back and had me explain myself to him and his boss. I admitted that I was out of the line and got a slap on the hand.
Not sure how it'll work out in his case... |
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| Demoted |
| Is he both impressionable and fertile? |
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| Zild |
| He is SOOOOOOOOOOOO incredibly ed! He needs to start apologizing to the professor right now via email, and sucking some dick all over the department and campus. He needs to let the department chair know for sure that he feels terrible, and it will help if he can go see a doctor that will corroborate a story that he was suffering from anxiety or depression. |
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| Sushipunk |
Academic suicide is right.
Of course he should apologise ASAP, and give some kind of reason for the explosion... whatever that was?
Are you going to talk to the professor, Lira? |
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| Arbiter |
| Hmm, maybe bribe a doctor to say that was suffering from some kind of neurological condition? It's probably too late to take measures to keep the professor quiet, so that would be my first instinct. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
It's probably too late to take measures to keep the professor quiet |
:stongue: |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
Hmm, maybe bribe a doctor to say that was suffering from some kind of neurological condition? It's probably too late to take measures to keep the professor quiet, so that would be my first instinct. |
he better get on anxiety attack meds right now and get a doctors letter ASAP |
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| EricB. |
| he did the right thing. aint no jap telling us americans what to do. we won the in war |
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| sensorium |
Well, as a TA member you have a responsibility to tells us how this evolves.
As a friend, I don't think you can do much for him. What types of pizzas do you sell? |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| he should start telling everyone the teacher touched him, duh. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by EricB.
he did the right thing. aint no jap telling us americans what to do. we won the in war |
Vivid Boy would have remembered that he's Canadian :(
RIP. |
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