[Wneighbor]

I found out someone had screwed up the paperwork, and nobody at the school office could figure out how to fix it. Grumble. . .

I have a good idea of how you feel about that frustration from a different standpoint. I have a student who went to registration to sign up for a class I specified. Someone hadn't added that class to the schedule and the student got placed into another class of the same description. My student had already had that class so he didn't get credit for the one he actually took.

AND NOW - the registrar's office can't figure out how to fix it and give the student the credit because our system won't allow it! My boss and I have fought the administration over this for the better part of a year now. And they just don't budge!

It's an embarrassment to me and my boss. And yet the registrar's office says it's the student's problem, that he should have noticed they had his paperwork wrong. Thing is, my paperwork and the paperwork I sent with the student to registration was 100% correct. It was the registrar's error!

[Fedora]

> I have a good idea of how you feel about that frustration from a different standpoint.

Sounds like you know where I'm coming from on that. Here's another horror story along those lines. My Mom's a teacher, and during the last year or so before her retirement the payroll office habitualy screwed up everyone's payroll records, sometimes depositing payments twice and then withdrawing them twice after the error was caught a few days later, and sometimes not depositing them at all. For a while for every two weeks every time she got a paycheck she had to go back to work on her day off to straighten it out, and she was constantly worried that her checking account would bounce because of their errors. I guess schools and paperwork don't mix!!!