Today, I had to take the train from my hometown to my university for a very important meeting concerning my foreign exchange program. When I finally arrived, I noticed a Post-it on the door: "Meeting cancelled, sick". I basically made a 9-hour day-trip for a half-an-hour walk. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got up and left for work despite being really sick, because I had a big meeting. Halfway to work, in deadlocked traffic, my boss texts me to let me know he's rescheduling the meeting to tomorrow because of personal conflicts. FML
Today, I ran 5 miles to catch the bus I take to university after missing my connection. When I got to the bus stop, I realized I had left my U-Pass on my desk at home. On top of the assignment that was due. FML
Today, I got on a two hour train ride to go to a concert. I had been so caught up in handling the train tickets that halfway to the concert, I realized I had left the concert tickets on my dresser. FML
Today, the director of my university decided to cancel all my attendance until now, as I was unable to attend the inauguration program in my university. I was unable to attend the program because the area I had to travel to was flooded and one of the trains I was supposed to travel on caught fire. FML
Today, my train departed over 10 minutes early. It was the last train of the day. I missed my transatlantic flight and along with it the vacation and concert I'd spent over a year saving for. FML
Today, I arrived at the station at 7:30pm sharp for the train... which was cancelled. FML
Today, I was starting a new job and I didn't want to be late, so I took a train that left earlier than normal, just to make sure I'd be on time. Turns out, the earlier train wasn't an express train, and made it to my stop 12 minutes after my usual one did. I was late for work. FML
Today, I spent an excruciating hour walking to campus with a broken leg, only to find my professor had left a note on the door saying class was canceled. FML
Today, I had to run for the train, but because of my bad foot and limping they held the train, much to people's displeasure. No one let me sit down, so for the 20 minute journey, I stood. With a bad foot. FML
Today, I missed my train. I was actually on the right platform but realized my mistake two minutes after it had left. FML
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telli164 30
You'd think maybe they'd at least call, or email. How inconsiderate.
ticklewhizzer 5
With all the technology available today, this just shouldn't happen anymore. Call, text, or email, but who the heck leaves notes?
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edward80 18
Take a crap in a box of chocolate and send it to him with a post-it note saying :"thank you for your time"
askullnamedbilly 33
This happens a lot, and I will never understand why. I mean, look at the choices: Scenario A: Person A is sick. They send an email to the people who were supposed to attend. Nobody shows up. Scenario B: Person A calls into their office to let person B know they won't make it. Person B sends an email to the people who were supposed to attend. Nobody shows up. Scenario C: Person A calls into their office to let person B know they won't make it. Person B gets up, writes a post-it note, walks to the room where the meeting was supposed to take place, and sticks it to the door. Everybody shows up, sees the note, and has to leave again. Out of all these options, they chose the one that required the most effort from all people involved? Why?
Not_Impressed13 9
Maybe you can send in a bill for your travel costs and time?
BrickTamlandLamp 13
Maybe no one had his/her phone number to notify them about the situation
breakinlegs 19
If he thinks he is sick now just wait til u drip some eye drops in his glass...
worldclassrager 41
Did you get an E-mail about it being cancelled? If not they need better communication unless it's lead by foreign person
yeongji 31
I am not surprised. I have lost count of how many times where professors will cancel classes and not notify their students about it - at least do it when the weather is horrible and you know you will not be coming in to teach! Hence the reason why I am not surprised that the school was inconsiderate about letting you know about the cancellation.
mamadoc 4
Last time that happened to me, my professor had the trivial excuse that they were in emergency surgery due to a their throat cancer. Even if he was unwell, his family should have made sure all his students were contacted and informed rather than inconvenienced. Sorry for your trouble OP, but if you are attending a university, everyone would assume you lived nearby. Maybe you can reschedule for a video conference.
barfcannon 24
Throat cancer is a wee bit more serious than the 'trivial excuse' you seem to think it is. Health scares make everything fly out the window. Sure it sucks to show up to a class only to find it's been cancelled without prior notice but at least you weren't having your neck sliced into.
askullnamedbilly 33
If a family member of mine was having emergency surgery for CANCER, I wouldn't give a flying shit about a bunch of students being 'inconvenienced'.
Acik91 26
32, 33 AND 34, seriously, none of you noticed the irony in this comment?
alicat13 12
9 hour day yrip for a half an hour walk??? WTF does that mean?
EmsyyyRose13 24
It means it took them 9 hours to get to their university, then they walked for half an hour to the room the meeting was in only to learn it was cancelled.
TEZZ 24
OP is Dutch though - the country is really not big enough to travel through for 9 hours by train, so it's probable that OP traveled slightly over 4 hours and then had to travel another 4 hours to get home
Credibleskills 28
Wow he must have been "sick" of meetings