Not quite retail, but still involves SCs vs employees...
A little backstory here: a few years ago, I was taking some college courses while working at my day job, which meant I could only take courses at night. The local university didn't have any evening courses, but they pointed me at a community college which they would accept transfer credits from at full value. So, I signed up.
This particular course was a Chemistry course, and we, the students, were the customers (after all, we did pay money). This is the story of two giggly girls fresh out of highschool who thought they could game the system.
While the professor took attendance, you didn't get any points for showing up. His lectures were all posted on the web, so if you missed class, you could download the lecture and catch up on the notes. Also, since there was lab in the evenings right after class, you were expected to dress in clothing that met safety guidelines (no long floppy sleeves, no open-toed shoes, hair ties are a must, as are safety goggles).
Well, on the first day of class, I knew these two girls were going to be trouble. Both were wearing sandals (ok, ok, day 1 not likely to be an issue), and they were continuously whispering to one another and giggling. I have no idea what was so funny, as they sat in front off to the right, and I was a few rows back, but they were obviously not taking the material seriously (if they were even paying attention at all).
There was at least one lab near the beginning where they wore sandals and the instructor had words with them, but that wasn't the main issue. Somewhere near the middle of the course, they just stopped showing up. Now, given this was a college course, and with the giggle girls continually not attending, the instructor figured the two had just given up on it and hadn't bothered to file a drop request.
Not so...
A few weeks later, towards the latter half of the semester, we finished a series of lectures a session early. Since everyone who had been attending was there that day, the instructor had us vote whether to move the exam up a day or to start the next series of lectures slightly early. We voted for the early exam. So we had a review one class early, with the exam planned for the day the syllabus said we would have a review.
On the day of the exam, guess who shows up? The giggle girls. 10 minutes late. They walk in and seem a little confused as to why everyone's heads down writing on a set of papers.
GG1 to the professor: Uh, we're here for the review...
Professor: Oh, the review was last class. If you'd been attending, you would've known we moved it up a day.
GG1 and GG2 stare at eachother, like deer caught in headlights.
Professor: *hands them each a packet* Here's your tests. Goodluck!
Yes, that's right. The giggle girls had figured out a way they could do as little work as possible in school but still get credit for it. They figured that since all they needed to do was to pass the course, they could skip all the classes and just show up for the review, and then would get a good enough grade on the test to pass the course. Oops.
A little backstory here: a few years ago, I was taking some college courses while working at my day job, which meant I could only take courses at night. The local university didn't have any evening courses, but they pointed me at a community college which they would accept transfer credits from at full value. So, I signed up.
This particular course was a Chemistry course, and we, the students, were the customers (after all, we did pay money). This is the story of two giggly girls fresh out of highschool who thought they could game the system.
While the professor took attendance, you didn't get any points for showing up. His lectures were all posted on the web, so if you missed class, you could download the lecture and catch up on the notes. Also, since there was lab in the evenings right after class, you were expected to dress in clothing that met safety guidelines (no long floppy sleeves, no open-toed shoes, hair ties are a must, as are safety goggles).
Well, on the first day of class, I knew these two girls were going to be trouble. Both were wearing sandals (ok, ok, day 1 not likely to be an issue), and they were continuously whispering to one another and giggling. I have no idea what was so funny, as they sat in front off to the right, and I was a few rows back, but they were obviously not taking the material seriously (if they were even paying attention at all).
There was at least one lab near the beginning where they wore sandals and the instructor had words with them, but that wasn't the main issue. Somewhere near the middle of the course, they just stopped showing up. Now, given this was a college course, and with the giggle girls continually not attending, the instructor figured the two had just given up on it and hadn't bothered to file a drop request.
Not so...
A few weeks later, towards the latter half of the semester, we finished a series of lectures a session early. Since everyone who had been attending was there that day, the instructor had us vote whether to move the exam up a day or to start the next series of lectures slightly early. We voted for the early exam. So we had a review one class early, with the exam planned for the day the syllabus said we would have a review.
On the day of the exam, guess who shows up? The giggle girls. 10 minutes late. They walk in and seem a little confused as to why everyone's heads down writing on a set of papers.
GG1 to the professor: Uh, we're here for the review...
Professor: Oh, the review was last class. If you'd been attending, you would've known we moved it up a day.
GG1 and GG2 stare at eachother, like deer caught in headlights.
Professor: *hands them each a packet* Here's your tests. Goodluck!
Yes, that's right. The giggle girls had figured out a way they could do as little work as possible in school but still get credit for it. They figured that since all they needed to do was to pass the course, they could skip all the classes and just show up for the review, and then would get a good enough grade on the test to pass the course. Oops.
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