Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

It is the first time in my professional experience that I had to recommend a subordinate (in this case the secretary of the office of student affairs) for a salary increase, and got rejected.

Not that I've done that before and gotten approved, this is the first time EVER.

First time that I've had someone to boss around literally all on my own and not shared with the rest of the department.

And of course I had to give in when she asked me to make a recommendation letter for her to get a salary increase, which she hadn't gotten in the four years she has been working in that office.

I'm abivalent about the rejection though. Will she think that I didn't campaign her cause enough? Will she now blame the wages board?

To her credit, she did intimate that the institutional controller had a beef with her since he always raised the salaries of his underlings, and when I did try to defend her to the board, he wasn't his usual calm self but singly-motivated.

@@ I discussed about the marketing one students before and their non-inclusion in the business administration week booths.

I thought that would be the end of that, but apparently, they're still selling, and will do so until December. I, as one of their perpetual customers, am getting tired of their products.

And their teacher, who did not rise above the first impression he gave of being sort of a nitwit, who had to be taught everytime he sat in front of a computer in the faculty room how to log in and how to print, is now, for some reason, giving a lecture of effective habits to the staff!

I already contracted some of the staff members to tell me if this talk is in any way not up to par, and I will be satisfied.

Session 2455 sometimes wishes not to see beyond the superficial bearing of some people. Class dismissed.