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Mar. 25th, 2008 09:51 pmWorked an extra shift today. Just like the last time I came in on a Tuesday, Christine #3, one of the day's supervisors, told me to sit somewhere only for me to find that booth already occupied (by Louise #3), then gave me another booth number only for me to start setting up in that booth then get told by Vanessa that that was someone else's seat - in this case Julie's. "She won't be happy if you sit there," Vanessa said.
From my previous experience, I knew Vanessa was the de facto authority on booths at that end of the room on Tuesday mornings, and I was now certainly not in the mood for going up to the supervisors a third time, so I just asked Vanessa where I could go. She pointed to a free booth at the end of the row.
"The supes always get it wrong," I heard her say to Louise #3. Me, I have the impression that the Tuesday morning girls didn't like the seating arrangement drawn up by the supervisors when the new system came in, so just devised one of their own and didn't bother consulting the supes.
Three refusals in a row - none of them courteous - just before 10 am had me hurling my headset against the back of my booth and wishing I was back in bed with Radio 5 Live on. After that, though, things settled down.
At college tonight, for the third week in a row the canteen was closed, so for the third week in a row I spent the 20 or so minutes before class sipping my Blue Charge in the dark in the library adjoining the IT suite. Pathenia arrived a quarter of an hour before the start and remarked on my sitting in the dark, so I pointed out to her about the closed canteen. She went off to reception to enquire, then at the beginning of class explained to us all that the lady who staffs the canteen on Tuesdays is seriously ill and they've been unable to find anyone to fill in.
Breezed through two Information & Communication mock exams, then moved on to the real one. That was going fine until one question required me to open a message in the e-mail account we've created as part of the module. I was clicking Inbox and just getting an error message every time. What a time for the server to malfunction - in the middle of an exam. In desperation I told Pathenia, and between us we tried several times before finally getting the Inbox to appear. Try as we might, though, we couldn't get the attachment I needed. It appeared as "Unknown Parameter" instead of the name it was sent with, and wouldn't open. Pathenia tried resending it to my account, to no avail. She said she'd make a note to the examiners that our server had had problems. I had to let that one mark go and move on to the remaining questions.
Despite an understandable concentration lapse meaning I started to answer the next question wrong before realising my mistake and starting over, I still got finished within the time limit and should have done enough to pass the module without that mark, but it's not nice to have that hanging over me, especially wondering if my having to call on Pathenia for help is going to invalidate my attempt. If I have to do the exam again I'll be radged off; if I have to pay another £12 to do the exam again, I'll be livid.
From my previous experience, I knew Vanessa was the de facto authority on booths at that end of the room on Tuesday mornings, and I was now certainly not in the mood for going up to the supervisors a third time, so I just asked Vanessa where I could go. She pointed to a free booth at the end of the row.
"The supes always get it wrong," I heard her say to Louise #3. Me, I have the impression that the Tuesday morning girls didn't like the seating arrangement drawn up by the supervisors when the new system came in, so just devised one of their own and didn't bother consulting the supes.
Three refusals in a row - none of them courteous - just before 10 am had me hurling my headset against the back of my booth and wishing I was back in bed with Radio 5 Live on. After that, though, things settled down.
At college tonight, for the third week in a row the canteen was closed, so for the third week in a row I spent the 20 or so minutes before class sipping my Blue Charge in the dark in the library adjoining the IT suite. Pathenia arrived a quarter of an hour before the start and remarked on my sitting in the dark, so I pointed out to her about the closed canteen. She went off to reception to enquire, then at the beginning of class explained to us all that the lady who staffs the canteen on Tuesdays is seriously ill and they've been unable to find anyone to fill in.
Breezed through two Information & Communication mock exams, then moved on to the real one. That was going fine until one question required me to open a message in the e-mail account we've created as part of the module. I was clicking Inbox and just getting an error message every time. What a time for the server to malfunction - in the middle of an exam. In desperation I told Pathenia, and between us we tried several times before finally getting the Inbox to appear. Try as we might, though, we couldn't get the attachment I needed. It appeared as "Unknown Parameter" instead of the name it was sent with, and wouldn't open. Pathenia tried resending it to my account, to no avail. She said she'd make a note to the examiners that our server had had problems. I had to let that one mark go and move on to the remaining questions.
Despite an understandable concentration lapse meaning I started to answer the next question wrong before realising my mistake and starting over, I still got finished within the time limit and should have done enough to pass the module without that mark, but it's not nice to have that hanging over me, especially wondering if my having to call on Pathenia for help is going to invalidate my attempt. If I have to do the exam again I'll be radged off; if I have to pay another £12 to do the exam again, I'll be livid.
