Which leads me to my next statement: the ASB website is crap. I would really like to use a stronger word, but I shall not. I'll leave it at that. Well, I will say this: they need to either hire a company to do their website for them or if they already have someone doing it, fire them & hire someone else.
My university co-hosted the conference and it sounded like there was some sort of bickering going on between our folks and the ASB Conference folks. Our folks (the meeting coordinators at least) didn't even attend the banquet. Sounded like it was in protest, but I don't know for sure.
I was having a pretty good time until one award presenter stood up and spent about 5 minutes discussing the fact that he was not going to give out the award because no one could follow directions on how to submit. We heard a gasp and an entire table got up and left while he was speaking. The whole thing was just so ridiculous. Okay, fine, say you're not giving out the award and leave it at that. Don't go on & on about following directions and your award is so important that if people can't follow directions then they don't deserve the award.
Everything just kind of culminated and I came away feeling I was surrounded by hoity toity assholes. The remaining smidgen of desire to pursue a career in Biology just flew out of my body.
Good. Got that out. Not going to think about it or talk about it again. Until of course the bio students go out for beers--I'm sure it'll come up then. ;o)
An aside: a bird flew into our window today and laid crumpled on the ground still breathing and moving its eyes around. I'm not very good with things like this (ex: the time our dog caught it's paw in-between the wire table and table rim of our outdoor furniture, flipped over, broke its toes, and hung there while I ran around screaming) so I called everyone I could think of until I got my brother on the phone (oddly enough he was the one that had to deal with me & the dog) who said don't worry about it, it's just stunned and will get up in a few minutes. Sure enough, several minutes later this blue jay rights itself, sits there for a minute and then goes on its merry way. Thank goodness! I asked my brother what I do if it doesn't get up. His answer, "Go get a shovel and smash it." See picture proof below:
That very same thing happened at my aunts house on Easter! He said the same thing to Grace and I and the bird did exactly as he said:).
ReplyDeleteSounds like an awful conference! Poor you!
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't anybody just stand up and say, "Well, if you'd put the guidelines up so people could read them, maybe they'd be followed?"
ReplyDelete1. Too bad you don't get advanced warning of impending assholiness. If you did my Counter-Asshole for Hire business would be doing better. You really needed me at the banquet and you'd get a discount.
ReplyDelete2. I didn't say, "...smash it". I said, "...hit it really, really, really hard." It's a key distinction because I actually spent time considering how to explain to you that you needed to get it done with one swing because in your case, a second swing is 100 times less likely than a first.