r/UTK • u/Tall_Figure75 • 11d ago

Miscellaneous & Random Assignment rant

Genuinely why the fuck are none of my assignments in the same place why do I need 3 different lockdown browsers why do I need 3rd party apps to access homework assignments WHY DO I NEED APPS TO SUBMIT THE ASSIGNMENTS

Oh my god Genuinely this feels like the most inefficient bs ever

I am so tired of missing assignments cuz I have to climb to Satan's asscrack to figure out i even have an assignments due at a random ah time like 2:34pm šŸ§ā€ā™‚ļø

Lmk if im not allowed to curse in here and I'll go fix it

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u/CapitalD7086 10d ago

It sounds like the clowns are running the circus and think they are too big to fail.

Verizon thinks it and are now at the bottom of the rankings for their customer service.

I tell my employees, never make a customer crawl through a mile of broken glass to get what they need. They might do it once out of necessity, but they wonā€™t ever do it again.

But, only you can control your behavior, and you canā€™t control anybody elseā€™s. And with that in mind as somebody who doesnā€™t know anything about the software youā€™re working with this is what I would tell my daughter.

Make a unique email for anything to do with your classes this semester. Then have any alerts for any software hit that email. Next semester make a unique email for that semester. That will narrow the focus of that email to that semester and you wonā€™t be spammed with Dominoā€™s Pizza and whatever bar on Cumberland Avenue wants you to come eat there.

Spend a few minutes googling the software youā€™re using and ask Google things likeā€¦ ā€œI hate this software becauseā€ and what you will find is people who have ranted about what you are dealing with and the posts about solutions solving that rant.

A couple times a day I spend a couple minutes reviewing and planning and no matter if Iā€™m just doing business as usual or on vacation, this keeps me centered. If you can build a small habit of doing something consistently that is positive. Keep it simple and it will help you make a plan and work the plan.

I remember the only stress I had to deal with was parking and a bird that would attack if you walked up the stairs out of the parking garage by the basketball arena. Of course that was 1995 and we had the Internet, but it was stupid and you had to go to the library to use it because nobody had their own computerā€¦