Today, I was giving a lecture to my class I heard a phone go off. Aggravated and exhausted, I asked everyone to turn their phones off. Then the phone rang again. I lost my shit and spent the next half hour calling my students a bunch of "technology whores". Then I realized the phone was mine. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my teacher yelled at me for using my phone in class. I apologized out loud, knowing that it would help me get off easier. She was yelling at somebody else. FML
Today, my stomach growled so loudly in class that my professor told us to make sure our phones were silenced. FML
Today, while teaching my class, I hooked my laptop up to the projector and put on a documentary. I left it playing and went to the toilet. When I came back, the whole class was talking to my mother. She must've Skyped me while I was gone and someone answered the call. FML
Today, our teacher forgot to collect our phones when we arrived at school. We almost managed to take our phones back to the dormitory but someone's phone rang TWICE in the corridor and she remembered the whole thing. FML
Today, my phone rang just seconds after I left a conference meeting to go use the restroom. It wouldn't have been a problem, except it seems one of my friends thought it would be funny to change my ringtone to a woman having an orgasm. FML
Today, I purposely set my phone off in class to make it seem like I had friends. FML
Today, my phone rang during a meeting. I quickly silenced it, and put it in my pocket. A few minutes later, my boss’s phone rang. It was me, butt-dialing him while we were sitting in the same room. He answered and asked if I had something urgent to discuss. I did not. FML
Today, I needed to call my mom to get some info so I dialled the number on my work phone. Not 2 seconds after, my cellphone rang. I got super pissed off because I hate when people call me on my cell at work. It was me. I'd dialled my own number. FML
Today, my friend's phone rang in class and my teacher thought it was me, so now I have detention for a week. FML
Today, a quiet afternoon at the library turned stressful when my phone started blasting music. Every attempt to silence it somehow increased the volume. After seconds of panic, I realised the sound wasn't coming from my phone. It was a kid's toy buried somewhere in my backpack after a visit from my niece. The reading room people still glared at me like I did it on purpose. FML
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napoleandynamite 0
hahha happend to my teacher too. u shouldnt have yelled tho
andelizastrin 0
Way to go, champ. Don't you know? When you assume, it makes you look like an ass :)
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NorfolkDude 2
I think you should have given everyone an F----- that's like below 0.
insomniacdude 0
You totally deserved it. 100%. One of my profs has a good tactic against cell phones. If a cell phone goes off in the middle of class, there will be a quiz at the beginning of the next class for everyone, no exceptions. Well he did that for the Freshmen intro-level course last semester. I'm in a senior level course with him this semester and he doesn't do that, so I guess he simply has higher expectations for the upperclassmen he teaches.
PollySighDevil 0
It seems to happen a lot... my professors do it all the time
blackkohl 0
never lose your cool.. even if it were a student's phone, you still would've looked like an ass for screaming. you don't have to yell to be strict and enforce a no-cellphone policy.
fudgemylife12 0
Karma. I wonder what your kids said after you realized it was your phone.
Joshya 0
Anyone else get the thought that this wasn't posted by the teach, but rather by a student slightly exaggerating the events that took place?
usaywhat 0
as a student i hated teachers that did that and as a teacher know still do so i try to follow the same rules as the students to me you just lost all there respect
DickRice 0
You should apologize to your students..
digitalangel 0
Get off your high horse. Everyone forgets to turn their phone down once in a while, and you have no idea what might be happening on the other end of the line. There was a time I was texting in class because my dad had just been diagnosed with cancer and I was asking my sister for details while they were at the hospital. Getting up and leaving would have been far more distracting to other students than me sitting there silently looking at my phone.
HannahWho 8
It still doesn't matter. No one knows why you are texting and it is not the responsibility of the teacher to be aware of all your problems in your life. If you need "details" then you leave class.
nikkiadiel 0
Wouldn't that make YOU a technology *****? You're the one who's cell went off, AND the one who is posting this ONLINE.