January 27th, 2011

This really wasn’t very collegial….

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9 Responses to “Our next faculty meeting will discuss the difference between thinking and doing….”

  1. Professor's Door says:

    It’s always better to be pissed off than pissed on.

  2. Ed Whitney says:

    I think it was Robert Anton Wilson who observed that what set domesticated primates apart from other mammals was that they marked their territory by excreting ink markings on pieces of paper.

  3. Ed Whitney says:

    Well, how else was he supposed to deal with the situation? If your colleague is too stupid to see the consequences of deviating from the Levi-Civita parallelism for non-Riemannian hypersquares, what else can you do?

  4. He was only caught because he repeated the spray. Why?

  5. Harold Pollack says:

    Ed W wins the thread….

  6. Keith Humphreys says:

    A true math whiz…

  7. Ed Whitney says:

    My friend Sheldon from “The Big Bang Theory” gave me the tip.

  8. kevo says:

    Oh, come on, he may have just been drunk or on drugs, afterall we are talking about higher education!

  9. Michael O'Hare says:

    I circulated this story to my colleagues as an inspiring example of creative handling of workplace conflict, and I’m so proud that it arose in my industry, which is not generally thought of as a font of innovative management.