You are causing me to fail my final

[FormerCallingCardRep]

This is what I was told by a customer today.

I had a woman call in this afternoon and tell me this because her internet was out today due to a storm that brought down the cable lines.

[Sapphire Silk]

My brain just exploded. How the HELL is the weather your fault? Does this lady think Storm of the X men is slumming for your company?

[ADeMartino]

Ah. Like her use of Wikipedia isn't going to cause her to fail anyway. What's the matter, hasn't this woman heard of a library? Geez Louise....

[Pixilated]

And if her final is in the next 24 hours ... maybe if she hadn't left it to the last minute to study, the internet outage wouldn't be "making" her fail her final??

[Tama]

At least I know if I fail, it's my own freakin' fault!

[Casino Jockey]

my uni has 24 hour labs on each campus as well... maybe thats an option? sheesh

[downforit2008]

I once had a woman come into my store on a rainy day and actually ask me in a snotty tone of voice, "Can't you MAKE it stop raining?" No sense of humor, no sarcasm, she ACTUALLY thought I was able to control the weather somehow!

I grinned at her and said, "Sorry, I left my magic wand at home! But if you ask me nicely, I'll be able to have an umbrella grow out of the ground for you!"

She stomped away from me with a huge scowl on her face. To this day, people like her make me glad that I no longer work Retail, especially at THIS time of year!

It's almost Thanksgiving, and I suppose I have a LOT to be thankful for!

[Dreamstalker]

She might have a point if the final was administered online (I've taken a few classes like that, am in the midst of one now where accessing the damn thing must be the test). Even so...

[Aethian]

my uni has 24 hour labs on each campus as well... maybe thats an option? sheesh

Lots of places don't have those anymore

Mom has a few exams that when you start them the clock starts. So if she gets disconnected then her trying to get back to the test could make her fail

[RootedPhoenix]

She could try to contact the professor, if that ^ is the case.

Unless that person is a giant toad, they'll get it.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I had a customer at the wholesale club once ask me (jokingly) why I couldn't do something about the bad weather we were having that day.

I told him, "If I could control the weather, I'd be extorting money from Disney and luxury resorts to NOT give them horrible rain all the time."

He laughed and walked away.

[Aethian]

She could try to contact the professor, if that ^ is the case. Unless that person is a giant toad, they'll get it.

Mom has had where power went out. By the time she would have gotten anywhere else time would have been up. The response from the professor "I don't give retakes, should have planned better."

Needless to say Mom ended up auditing the class and retaking.

[Miss Fatale]

I teach online classes and generally weather is not an excuse for not completing work (exceptions are made for big storms or blizzards that effect hundreds or millions of people).

Any online exam is available for a period of days, and students know when papers are due from Day 1 of the class, so yeah, students are told/warned/begged to use their time wisely and not wait until the last minute.

If this woman isn't in an online class and was just trying to study, she still should have planned her time better and perhaps found a way to access resources online, such as by saving materials to her harddrive and/or printing them out.

[bbbr]

Always figured that either I knew the material or didn't going into an exam and trying to jam more info into my brain at the last moment wasn't a good idea (actually did worse the couple of times I did study right up to the start of test). Typically spent the day of hanging out at the local rock gym working on bouldering problems and getting into a really relaxed mental state. It worked great for me, carried a solid 3.6 through college.

Never did try an online course, internet connection was still dial-up and slow as hell in my area when graduated.

[Dreamstalker]

Mom has had where power went out. By the time she would have gotten anywhere else time would have been up. The response from the professor "I don't give retakes, should have planned better."

This is what my thing now is like. Fortunately it's a no-cost contest (state is desperate to find qualified computer people), but the fact that I missed the first round still pisses me off--our internet got cut off for a few hours due to a cableco screwup and when I did get back online I simply could not access the test (page-timeout errors for the two days it was open). I narrowed the problem down to something on their site, but got nowhere pleading my case to the people administering the course.