A certain incident....
Jul. 30th, 2004 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipReaders of my last protected entry will realize that I have been having a bit of trouble with my CCNA instructors (not tutors, I have been duly informed) and access to module assesments.
On Wednesday one of the instructors, Graham Timmins, telephones and informs me - in the most abusive and threatening manner possible - that I had been expelled from the course and if I attempted to attend on Saturday that he would remove me. He also claimed that he "knew my type" and that I had done nothing in the past fifteen years except be a professional student (clearly he doesn't know how to do a websearch).
Now of course you can't prove anything by 'phone. So I requested that he send me an email of all this - at which point he hung up. Soon afterwards I received send email, minus the personal abuse and of course the threat to throw me out substantially modified ("you will be refused entry").
He also said for further discussion I should either 'phone him or see him personally. Neither is an option to me. I don't want to engage in a conversation with a man with that sort of 'phone manner, and the idea of seeing an erratic individual who wants me to go to a building which he has just threatened to throw me out of is unlikely.
I have submitted a formal complaint to RMIT on account of his actions.
On Wednesday one of the instructors, Graham Timmins, telephones and informs me - in the most abusive and threatening manner possible - that I had been expelled from the course and if I attempted to attend on Saturday that he would remove me. He also claimed that he "knew my type" and that I had done nothing in the past fifteen years except be a professional student (clearly he doesn't know how to do a websearch).
Now of course you can't prove anything by 'phone. So I requested that he send me an email of all this - at which point he hung up. Soon afterwards I received send email, minus the personal abuse and of course the threat to throw me out substantially modified ("you will be refused entry").
He also said for further discussion I should either 'phone him or see him personally. Neither is an option to me. I don't want to engage in a conversation with a man with that sort of 'phone manner, and the idea of seeing an erratic individual who wants me to go to a building which he has just threatened to throw me out of is unlikely.
I have submitted a formal complaint to RMIT on account of his actions.
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Date: 2004-07-29 08:07 pm (UTC)Timmins has definitely over reacted in his response to your emails!
At least now you know you can do the exam without them now
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Date: 2004-07-29 09:42 pm (UTC)Not yet - I suspect this will take several days.
Timmins has definitely over reacted in his response to your emails!
And thank you for looking after me after the call. Much appreciated. Nasty piece of work that character.
At least now you know you can do the exam without them now
Yes, and for about $1800 less.
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Date: 2004-07-29 09:54 pm (UTC)That's okay, you'd do the same. Though I must admit you were pretty distracted for the rest of the evening. Understandably though.
At least this way you will be able to get the course done at your own pace as well, and not get pulled back by so called tutors
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Date: 2004-07-29 10:07 pm (UTC)That's okay, you'd do the same.
Er yes. As would any human who still has the honour of calling themselves that.
and not get pulled back by so called tutors
A significant advantage. As they pointed out however, they're not tutors, they're instructors.
To whit I thought... "Yeah, that's right. Instructors instruct. Tutors teach."