Comments on: Yikes http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2006/12/10/yikes/ Author, Speaker, Professor, Shattering Gender Myths Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:20:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: djw http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2006/12/10/yikes/#comment-49655 djw Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:49:06 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/12/10/yikes/#comment-49655 Yikes indeed. In your honor, I won't complain about my student email volume for the next three hours. Yikes indeed. In your honor, I won’t complain about my student email volume for the next three hours.

]]> By: Jas http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2006/12/10/yikes/#comment-49654 Jas Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:01:10 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/12/10/yikes/#comment-49654 From that article originally posted: Meg Worley, an assistant professor of English at Pomona College in California, said she told students that they must say thank you after receiving a professor's response to an e-mail message. "One of the rules that I teach my students is, the less powerful person always has to write back," Professor Worley said. -- Ridiculous. So the lowly student must graciously thank the professor for doing what their job requires (making sure students learn) while the professor has no duty to reply to the thanks? I feel lucky that I haven't had such pompous professors myself, or at least have been lucky enough to not have proof of their pomposity. From that article originally posted:

Meg Worley, an assistant professor of English at Pomona College in California, said she told students that they must say thank you after receiving a professor’s response to an e-mail message.

“One of the rules that I teach my students is, the less powerful person always has to write back,” Professor Worley said.
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Ridiculous. So the lowly student must graciously thank the professor for doing what their job requires (making sure students learn) while the professor has no duty to reply to the thanks? I feel lucky that I haven’t had such pompous professors myself, or at least have been lucky enough to not have proof of their pomposity.

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