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Post by Emily on Nov 23, 2011 22:05:11 GMT
he's like "Look mummy I killed this for you!" "No you didn't Mouse, you're a fat, white brain-damaged dollop incapable of hunting practically anything" "No I totally killed it! I's a ninja." "Mouse... it's flat, it has rigor mortis..."
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Post by Ally on Dec 6, 2011 16:26:44 GMT
Okay, this is less "find stuff out" and more "advice pls"...
How do you deal with a work situation where you have dropped the ball quite a bit, but in this particular instance, someone else has and it's just impacted on you? The actual situation is: thanks to brain fog/tiredness (and, to be completely honest, lack of organisation and getting my act together), I screwed up about marking in the past - but this time, I've done all my marking well in advance, and the person I'm meant to be second marking just hasn't got her paperwork to me yet. But, she's a proper lecturer and I'm a casual employee who's already screwed up a few things, so I don't feel like I'm going to be believed, and I don't want to look like I'm shirking responsibility.
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Post by tangent on Dec 6, 2011 16:58:08 GMT
Have full documentation of the work you did before you say anything. If you have proof you did your job and don't accuse the other person but just present the proof... then it's no longer your word vs. hers.
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Post by Emily on Dec 6, 2011 18:31:22 GMT
is there a third party that you could ask to hurry this lecturer along a bit? then you've got a witness.
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Post by Ally on Dec 7, 2011 17:29:06 GMT
I copied the module leader into the email I sent her asking about the papers...felt slightly passive-aggressive, but I figure at least it gives me a record.
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Post by tangent on Dec 7, 2011 17:54:08 GMT
It's called "covering your ass." And who knows, it might result in the situation being rectified before it becomes a bigger problem.
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Post by Ally on Jan 23, 2012 19:45:34 GMT
I'm typing some stuff in Word, and the dictionary seems to have changed itself to US English. How do I change it back to UK English? (I've tried via spellcheck, but every time I open that it claims to be in UK English, even though it's picking me up for putting a u in colour)
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Post by X'o'Lore on Jan 23, 2012 20:50:36 GMT
That seems weird. I can get my own version of word to default to UK English easy enough if I wanted to, but I don't have a reason to switch off US English so I guess I can't say much for this issue. Here's a link in any case. Maybe it can help? It looks like it might set language word by word rather than across a whole document hence the select all.
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Post by Emily on Jan 24, 2012 9:19:43 GMT
you can get word to learn spellings can't you? i'm sure thats what I do when it argues with me
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Post by Ally on Jan 24, 2012 10:00:06 GMT
I can do that for the ones it just flags up, but it's also autocorrecting things as I type - if I type "realise" it changes the s to a z...
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Post by tangent on Jan 24, 2012 15:36:12 GMT
Ah, autocorrect. The bane of so many people. ^^;;
Sorry I can't help, I've tried to avoid fiddling with those elements. Though I wish Microsoft would make it a lot easier to remove words from the "saved to dictionary" section for both Word and Windows itself. Sometimes you hit the wrong bar when you right-click something....
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Post by X'o'Lore on Feb 22, 2012 18:01:40 GMT
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