30 Something

On last week, I had a student come in to ask for my assistance with an English paper. He stated that it was a review of a movie, Dean Man Walking and he didn't even know where to start with the paper. So I told him that I didn't remember the movie, but that I needed to watch it in order to assist him. So he was going to drop the movie off at work, but I didn't work on Thursday (that's a whole other blog topic). So I told him to bring it to my house and we could watch it. This student of mine happens to be a friend also. However, because I worked all weekend I didn't feel like watching the movie, plus it was considered work, so why not do work during work hours? I brought the movie to work and to my surprise I was the only one in the office during the morning, so instead of closing my office door to watch the movie in privacy I left the door open so that I could serve the students who came into the main office. I was multitasking. Did I want to watch the movie for my pleasure? No, not at all. I've seen the movie in past and I couldn't have cared less about watching so, thus bringing it to work. Had it been something that I actually wanted to watch I would have forgone my tiredness and watched it at home. So my boss comes in at 1 (she said she was going to be there at noon) when the movies was almost over. At that time there were about two other students, besides the student working on the paper, standing in my door chatting with me as I watched the movie. The student writing the paper happens to work for our office and he was off the clock as of 12:30, but my boss demanded that he come to her office immediately. He goes into her office and tells him that it is unprofessional for him to be watching the movie in my office. He tried to explain to her that he needed assistance with the paper and that was the reason for giving me the movie to watch. My boss never said a word to me about it. The studnet came back and told me what she said. I was truly confused. I had no idea what she was talking about and for that matter, why she was telling him that when in fact he was off the clock. The movie was over shortly and I proceeded to leave the office to work with the studnet over the next couple of hours on his paper. My boss did not say a word to me. Why? I have no idea. But, I'm sure she made herself a note to bring it up at a later date, maybe at our next staff meeting which I will not be attending.

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