Your parents never taught you manners, so I will

[blas]

Just about as rude as when you're on a first date and your date is totally ignoring you and click click click clicking away on his phone.

[Kiwi]

I dont think you over reacted at all, it was extremely rude of her. If you are talking time out of your day to help them learn the least they can do is pay attention!

Totally ironic that its in a hospitality course!!!

I could never understand people who thought it was ok to talk or text during a lecture at university, Ive seen many people thrown out of class (with waiting lists) time and time again due to talking or not paying attention!

When there are 30 places and 55 people need that class, you do NOT sit there distracted. The worst thing I had ever seen was a guy who would put a dictaphone on record and sit there and nap in class... out teacher used an old dowl for a pointer, walked up to him and when WHAM on the table he just about wet himself.

[AdminAssistant]

The worst thing I had ever seen was a guy who would put a dictaphone on record and sit there and nap in class... out teacher used an old dowl for a pointer, walked up to him and when WHAM on the table he just about wet himself.

I love it.

The absolute BEST (and I wasn't even there, I've just heard/seen pictures, but I also had this professor) was a History/Civics professor who could've personally witnessed the building of the Pyramids (he was OLD). He was also totally awesome, knowledgeable, and challenging.

One day, he staged something with a student he knew. That student had a phone ring, when the professor demanded it, the student handed him a dummy phone. Professor then took dummy phone and smashed it into itty bitty pieces with a hammer. It was complete and utter shock from the rest of the class. Immediately after, the professor explained it was a joke - but from what my friends told me, he didn't have any more problems with cell phones ringing in his class.

[portia911]

to reply to a few posts

a feral munt is basically the uneducated unmoitvated drop kicks in life who have to understake government training course so they can get their benefit. I would never employ them. They can't even look you in the eye when or if they do atlk to you and as posted above these are the very last type of people who should be working in hospo.

Having said that I hate mobile phones. They are banned at my work and if a customer starts using one while I am helping them I just walk away and wait for them to come and find me. Usually they apologise.

[Broomjockey]

a paper in front of me with 'I AM A FISH' written 400 times.

...*looks down at sig*.

[Gravekeeper]

I seriously despise cellphones, iPhones, Blackberries, etc. With every fiber of my being. There are few things more rude or annoying in public then the above devices. Sure, there are people that can use them and be respectful to those around them. But you don't notice those people because they're trying to talk quietly, aren't trying to interact with other people at the same time ( in line at a store ) or have moved to a corner out of traffic to take their call, etc.

As for teachers...my old social studies teacher in high school loved it when people didn't pay attention. It gave him excuses to do horrible horrible things. He didn't slam on the desk though. One of my friends nodded off in class once and he walked up, lifted his leg far higher then any of us figured he could, yelled "KYAAAAA~!" and axe kicked the desk right next to my friends head.

My god he near pissed himself. -.-

Still, my all time favourite moment in that class involved the class ditz. She was a classic airhead and the rude "Like, omigawd" type around whom the world supposedly revolved in her mind. She was constantly slacking off, writing notes, etc etc in class. My social studies teacher use to sneak up and take the notes. Then he would save them in his desk and every now and then, usually on Fridays, he'd devote 10 minutes of class to reading out all the notes he'd confiscated that week and quite clearly state who they were from.

One class he was ragging on her for not paying attention, not being able to answer a single question, etc etc and she got really upset with him, stood up and yelled, and I quote: "YOU ONLY PICK ON THE STUPID ONES!". He just looked right at her and went "Well, yes.". Then the light dawned on her and she stormed out of the class room.

It was awesome. ^^

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Still, my all time favourite moment in that class involved the class ditz. She was a classic airhead and the rude "Like, omigawd" type around whom the world supposedly revolved in her mind. She was constantly slacking off, writing notes, etc etc in class. My social studies teacher use to sneak up and take the notes. Then he would save them in his desk and every now and then, usually on Fridays, he'd devote 10 minutes of class to reading out all the notes he'd confiscated that week and quite clearly state who they were from.

One class he was ragging on her for not paying attention, not being able to answer a single question, etc etc and she got really upset with him, stood up and yelled, and I quote: "YOU ONLY PICK ON THE STUPID ONES!". He just looked right at her and went "Well, yes.". Then the light dawned on her and she stormed out of the class room.

It was awesome. ^^

That it must have been. It's always great when stupid people revel in their stupidity and proclaim what everybody else already knows.

[Broomjockey]

As for teachers...my old social studies teacher in high school loved it when people didn't pay attention. It gave him excuses to do horrible horrible things. He didn't slam on the desk though. One of my friends nodded off in class once and he walked up, lifted his leg far higher then any of us figured he could, yelled "KYAAAAA~!" and axe kicked the desk right next to my friends head.

You just reminded me of a prank my physics teacher in HS pulled on someone who fell asleep. He motioned everyone to be quiet, got us out of the room, turned the lights off, then went down to the office and got on the intercom to wake her up. The confused look on her face was priceless.

[Imogene]

Portia gave this person one chance to understand they where passing the wrong message back "Am I boring you?" the person was so immersed in her texting that she missed the body, possibly facial, and specially textual message that she was receiving a warning, responded aloofly thus showing she did NOT care to be there, and portia acted acoordingly.

Ah, but, seeing as I would in fact be paying attention to you as well, I would catch those body signals, and would likely drop the secondary task.

[tropicsgoddess]

I don't blame the OP for what they did since that student was rude. When I was in training for my first job (a call center), the trainer went in full Drill Sargent mode when he saw one of my co-workers yakking on her cellphone.

[Big-box-retail-blues]

As I lay Dying by William Faulkner. He wrote it in the stream of conciousness style of writing (think Jack Kerouac) over a 6 week period of time; unaltered. It used, I think, 12 different narrative voices and spanned 59 chapters the shortest of which contained 5 words, "My mother is a fish."

[Sharsarannon]

A good part of my GTA training orientation earlier this week was "How do deal with students and their *^%&*% electronics".

I need to post about that....

Speaking of professors... I had one who would answer phones that rang in his class. In funny accents. AND he would make up stories. Remember kids, once tenured, professors can get away with ANYTHING.

ONe reason I would consider being a professor. I love art and I'd have such a fun time screwing the brains of spoiled brats who never learned manners.

[Sharsarannon]

As for teachers...my old social studies teacher in high school loved it when people didn't pay attention. It gave him excuses to do horrible horrible things. He didn't slam on the desk though. One of my friends nodded off in class once and he walked up, lifted his leg far higher then any of us figured he could, yelled "KYAAAAA~!" and axe kicked the desk right next to my friends head.

Wow, if I didn't know better I'd swear we went to school with the same teacher. I had an eigth grade prof who is an incredible person, war vet, patriot, and was very much a martial artist in his free time, and he imparted amazing wisdom daily. (I attribute most of the strength of character I may have to him)
Once in a while someone one inevitably fall asleep in class, as somebody always does. He would take the yardstick he was using to gesture, sneak up next to them very quietly, and slap it down on the old fashioned, hollow wood and metal desk beside the sleeper. Priceless.

[AlmightyALT]

My aunt has a whistle that can be heard two blocks away. And she's now a high school teacher. Her students learned quickly that you don't sleep in her class.

[Jay 2K Winger]

My last two years of high school, I had this teacher for my Spanish class who called herself "La Bruja." For those of you who don't speak Spanish, that means "The Witch." She was dubbed Bruja by her students one year, and she adopted it as her name. We all CALLED her Bruja, and she encouraged it. (Granted, this may have been because there was another teacher in the school with the same last name as her, though no relation.)

Her classroom was FULL of little noise-makers and toys that made noise and the like. Her class was usually in the morning (in my case, BOTH years, first thing in the morning), and so her students being teenagers with too much homework on top of everything else a teenager's trying to do, we were all not getting enough sleep, and would sometimes doze off.

If you did that, she would pick up one of her little toys, go over to the sleeping student, hold the toy right next to their ear, and turn it on. Very few people fell asleep more than once in her classes. Except for this one guy who clearly just didn't care. He didn't wake up for more than a minute while the thing was going off next to his ear.