To: Angry Professor
From: Other Professor
Re: Re: Re: Colloquium
Well, I was looking at your department's online calendar. I see that you have nothing scheduled on November 24th, so I'm shooting for giving a department-wide colloquium on that day. If that doesn't work, I could give a brownbag in either of the [Theoretical Social Science] or [Organic Social Science] areas. Just let me know what works best for you.
Regards,
Other
> To: Other Professor
> From: Angry Professor
> Re: Re: Colloquium
>
> Hi Other. Thanks for letting me know. Tell me when and where your talk will be
> and I'll try to make it.
>
> Best,
> Angry
>
> > To: Angry Professor
> > From: Other Professor
> > Re: Colloquium
> >
> > Dear Angry,
> >
> > My name is Other Professor and I'm a faculty member at Villa State University.
> > I'm writing to you about my coming to give a talk at LSU. My talk deals with the
> > application of nonlinear dynamics to issues of control and regulation in social
> > systems. I hope all is well with you and I look forward to seeing you soon.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Other
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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9 comments:
Who *are* these people????
Have they just landed on Earth from Uranus or something???
We just agreed to host 2 talks that worked exactly like that. It was kind of frustrating, but perhaps different in that they were people we had actually heard of before. But still, they invited themselves.
love it!!!
wish i had that kind of balls.
tnt
roflmao
Am I to understand these emails like this: This person, professor Other, writes you an opening email to say "I'm giving a talk" [when it is really " I wold like to come and talk at your Big uni] and when you respond "ok, i'll see if I can be there" they answer "if you can make the arrangements this date seems good and if it doesn't work I can give a talk about these other two things since I really want to come and give a talk".
wow. I have never heard of such an approach.. ad I am not sure it works well either. How about looking for someone who knows someone at the Department or, better yet, see if you can open some kind of collaboration?!
Or, is this something I should try in the future? To get invited to places?
[seriously doubt that i would ever do this. I asked one Big prof if I could come by and talk to him when I went to Big uni. He was happy to see me and wondered if I would mind give a shorter talk to the department since I was going to be there and my work was relavent to them....]
Tenuous grasp of English+poor writing skills=real mess.
Tell them you may not have department business on that day, but personal plans interfere... we do have lives, after all.
joeymom: huh?
There's nothing wrong with the person's English skills or writing. In fact, he/she is pretty concise, clear... and direct.
The email is astonishing for other reasons!
Wow, this one sure is manipulative. You post enough emails from professor types that are very stange. It is enough to make me question the emotional maturity of the entire univerisity staff culture. Are most of your colleagues this dysfunctional? Nobody in this group says anything directly to another person. They seems to allways sneak around back other folks into doing things.
I agree with Faded: this is serious manipulation. Too bad for Other Professor that you refused to play along! :-) Sock it to 'em, AP.
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