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Therefore, she called security.
And as a direct result of that, launched a Twitter hashtag storm…and got herself placed on administrative leave.
A Kennesaw State University has placed an academic adviser on administrative leave while the school investigates a student’s viral 30-second video of his interaction with her.
In the video, Abby Dawson, the school’s director of advising and internships in the Department of Exercise Science and Sport Management, accused the student of “harassment” for apparently sitting in the room and waiting to speak with his academic adviser.
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The video begins with the adviser — initially identified by Bruce and other students as Dawson — walking into the room and telling Bruce that he was harassing another adviser, Margaret Tilley.“I’m not harassing no one,” Bruce said.
“You are,” Dawson replied.
“I’m not,” Bruce continued.
Dawson threatened to call security and told Bruce that he could fill out a form “just like everyone else does.”
Bruce responded that he was just waiting to talk to someone.
“Sitting here until someone is available is harassing them,” Dawson said.
Now on the one hand, we don’t know what went down before the camera started rolling, and it’s clear the altercation didn’t begin at that point. On the other hand, it is equally clear that the school based its decision to start a review of the incident, based on other events antecedent to the incident itself. This is the continuation of a pattern. The reaction of the student body, and of management, make that rather difficult to deny or call into any sort of question.
And the fact of the matter is, taking things a step further after filling out a form or whatever, “just like everybody else,” is not harassment; it’s called escalation, and it’s something we out here in the real world have to do regularly, in fact more often than we’d like. Or if it isn’t escalation, maybe the student just hasn’t got anything better to do for an hour than get this one question answered — which, in the world of student-ing, could very well be a reasonable decision to make. Either way, unless he’s doing something like making faces, or noises, or holding a pillowcase and bloody butcher knife or something like that, you have to wonder about the mindset of Ms. Skinny Pants. The only way this office full of “workers” can get anything done, without feeling harassed, is away all of the clientèle they’re servicing…so they can be left to work the queue of forms, in peace, and at their own leisure?
How efficiently are they working away at this queue? Is there a problem there, that would make the workers feel harassed if the process is transparent, visible to those who are doing the waiting?
I develop web services for front-end developers. I could make a powerful case that I feel “harassed” by their questions…if I chose to make one. It might not stick, since I’m a contractor, but nevertheless in some cases I could bring some good, solid evidence that the inopportune timing of some of these questions has a negative impact on my work. So how come things don’t go that way? Lots of reasons. As I said, it wouldn’t stick; the persons asking the questions, need the answers; they’re already being about as considerate of my time as they can manage, with things the way they are (and there’s nothing in the video to suggest the same isn’t true of the student)…
And finally, but not least significantly, it’s just the way life is. If the work you’re doing is important enough to have an impact on anything, that means someone will have questions. Possibly, even probably, right while you’re in the middle of doing it. It’s a feature and not a bug. It means that what you’re doing, matters. At least that’s how I see it.
But then, I never went to college.
Hat tip to Instapundit.
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“But then, I never went to college”
- CaptDMO | 05/19/2015 @ 05:29Uh…..BAM!
Sorry, I’m too lazy to use bigger flashing letters, with cascading confetti, to “shout” that!
I’ve got two degrees Cap’n…I think one of the WaPo comments said it best:
TheDudeAbidesInDC
- P_Ang | 05/19/2015 @ 06:295:27 AM PST
Welcome to the university!
See what a world dominated by liberals looks like.
It’s so nice to finally see cracks in the wall. People are starting to realize that every time one of these special snowflakes shouts “harassment!” it doesn’t mean we have to accept what they say uncritically.
- cloudbuster | 05/19/2015 @ 08:02As we change gradually change the conversation from politics to governing policies, solutions are coming for this type of behavior out of government employees. It is not just one thing. It is a bunch of solutions to our problems. Be on the look out for them, they are coming.
- John Norton | 05/19/2015 @ 19:33[…] “Sitting Here Until Someone is Available is Harassing Them” “More Typical” After All the Posturing, They’re Nothing But Petty Crooks Memo For […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 05/21/2015 @ 06:41