u/Heisenberg_Gg

I hate when professors use that setting where you cant see what anyone else wrote until you submit your own thread. We are entering the last weeks of May and everyone is trying to finish their final summaries but this setting just makes everything ten times more tedious. Because nobody can see what has already been said forty people end up picking the exact same three paragraphs from the textbook to analyze. Then when you finally submit your part and unlock the thread you realize the last fifteen people literally used the same examples and quotes as you. It makes the entire classroom look like a bunch of unoriginal clones who just copied each other even though we all worked completely independently in the dark. If we could actually see the feed beforehand we could easily coordinate or choose different topics so the thread wouldnt be so mindlessly repetitive. It defeats the entire purpose of a collaborative space when you are forced to work in complete isolation just because the instructer thinks everyone is going to plagiarize.

I tried to be nice once, and now I’m apparently the backup plan for an entire month.

I work at a small animal clinic as a receptionist. There are only 4 of us at the front desk, so when one person moves shifts around, everyone feels it. My coworker Jenna asked me in December if I could switch one Tuesday closing shift because she had a licensing class. I said yes. No problem.

Last week I saw the February draft schedule and noticed I had 5 closing shifts that used to be hers. I asked our office manager if that was a mistake, and she said Jenna had told her I was “okay taking more evenings for a bit.” That was news to me. I texted Jenna, and she said she assumed I wouldn’t mind since I “don’t have kids or anything after work.”

I told her one switched shift did not mean she could offer me up for 5 more. She got upset and said her class runs until March and she really needs the later shifts off. I said I understood, but she needed to ask me first. Now she’s saying I’m making her look unreliable when she already told management she had coverage.

The annoying part is I actually could do maybe 1 or 2 of them. But after finding out she presented it like I agreed, I don’t want to cover any. It feels like rewarding the whole thing. Our manager said we can “work it out between ourselves,” which is somehow worse.

WIBTA if I tell Jenna I’m not covering the 5 shifts at all and ask the manager to put the schedule back the way it was?