An email that I woke up to.

You have got to be the most whiny, self-absorbed, pretentious idiot
I’ve come across at SJSU. Please, for the love of god, don’t be come
a teacher. You suck.
–tim

38 thoughts on “An email that I woke up to.

  1. malixe

    And do you remember asking for this dipshit’s opinion?

    Just tell him if you need to know what he thinks, you’ll personally pull his head out of his ass, and ask him.

    Some people…

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    1. Krissy Gibbs Post author

      Yeah, he was probably my least favorite person I dealt with this semester before he sent this email. My estimation just went down. It’s amazing.

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  2. karenbynight

    Well, that’s very silly of him. If he had an actual opinion, he should have shared it or kept it to himself; using absolutes and criticising without examples and without suggestions just marks the email as intended solely to hurt you, and containing no real substance.

    I expect it did hurt you anyway, because it caught you off-guard, and I’m sorry. But it’s really best to ignore these kinds of attacks, and only pay attention to constructive criticism.

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    1. Krissy Gibbs Post author

      See, that is logical and sane and adult. Some things that I am still working on.

      And yeah, it did hurt. Even though I know he is an asshat.

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  3. boxofchaos

    He’s SO wrong. You are so right to be a teacher.

    Do not let this attack sink any deeper sweety- it was malicious and misdirected.

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    1. Krissy Gibbs Post author

      Very malicious. For the life of me I don’t understand what he was doing at home sending emails like that at 11:40 on a Saturday night. Didn’t he have anything better to do?

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      1. labelleizzy

        … hmm…

        Didn’t he have anything better to do?

        that, I think, is exactly the point. Now I dunno who this “tim” person is, but if he’s sending mean & hurtful stuff like this, he probably DOESN’T, and is probably bitter about the fact that, among other pluses, you’re young and cute with a good social life, so he attacks you to make himself feel better about being home alone bored on a saturday night.

        you should SO become a teacher, lovely. You got the performance shtick, and you splain stuff really well.

        k’ love you b’bye…

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      2. dorjejaguar

        He was thinking about you and thinking how beautiful you are and loathing himself and knowing that he could never get anywhere near someone as cool as yourself so he decided to hate you and try to hurt you. That’s when he sent the email.

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  4. brian1789

    Heh. Sounds like he was projecting his own worst fears about himself on to you. His problem, his mirror, obviously has little to do with you!

    (hug) anyway for waking up to an annoying email…

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  5. kerigirl

    Who does he think he is anyway? Obviously he doesn’t know you at all. You are compassionate, intelligent and strong….EXACTLY what it takes to be a wonderful teacher!

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      1. kerigirl

        He doesn’t sound like an authority to me. He sounds like an ASS! You don’t need people like this in your life, honey. The people who you choose to have around you should feel lucky and honored. I know that I do!

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  6. genderfur

    Once in awhile I get somethign nasty like that. I “return it to sender”. I just do a “reply” on the email, but don’t say anything at all.

    They’ve never written back. Like, when they see their own words, they get ashamed.

    On other tacks, presumably this is another teaching student? If so, the faculty might be very interested to hear about the charmer. Did he send this personal attack thru a SJSU computer account? The system admins will *love* to see that he’s using a computer account to harrass another student.

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      1. neverjaunty

        Good. I mean, it would be one thing if it were polite and contained substantive criticism of things you needed to work on, but this thing, WTF?

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  7. tsgeisel

    Maybe a bunch of us can get together and show him the error of his ways…y’know bunches of your friends haven’t actually met, because we move in different circles. What a chance for a meeting!

    We meet, we talk, we inflict a little bodily harm, maybe we head out and get some lunch. Perfect.

    It’d sure suck to find out that someone hacked his email account or something, but then we’ll just be teaching him about the importance of choosing a good password.

    Anyway, make sure to let us know.

    (And, as mentioned, he is, of course, completely wrong.)

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    1. Krissy Gibbs Post author

      It would be an amusing way to have my friends meet… but probably not good. People might get arrested, and that would be bad.

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      1. tsgeisel

        We show the jury the email – they’ll never convict.

        We could just limit the violence to noogies, maybe. Something he’ll be embarrassed to report.

        “Officer, I’d like to report an assault. I was just gang-noogied.”

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  8. tenacious_snail

    okay, I know that I can be a total and utter brat, but I was wondering…did you cut and paste his text? That is, did he opt for the non-capitalized “god” and the bifurcation of “be come”? And, if so, please tell me that *he* isn’t planning to teach English. I mean, I’d be concerned about his ideas of how to motivate, encourage, correct, and discipline students, based on the fact that he’d send that sort of email, but his grasp of the subject matter also seems tenuous.

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  9. porgypie

    “Please, for the love of god, don’t be come a teacher.”

    Be. Come. Be SPACE come.

    Please, for the good of the language, become a teacher.

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  10. ribbin

    Hey, hey. I’m with all those people who were smart enough to be able to speak and write the English language correctly, regardless of whether it’s their first or not. However, I’m NOT with all those people who have offered to beat him up. I’m far more devious than that. This sort of email is trying for one of two things: a) a reaction or b) to make him feel better about his own pretention and idiocy. Both of these things are best solved by ignoring the email. However, if you can find some way (perhaps reporting it to faculty, like you did) to make it completely clear to him that by sending the email he caused himself all sorts of trouble, but not to let on that he hurt you, you’ve really nailed him. He continues wallowing in shame and bitterness about being an idiot who can’t spell, while having to deal with the trouble that he KNOWS he brought down on himself.
    DISCLAIMER: Not all people who can’t spell are idiots. I, myself, amd a lousy speller, and an English major. I know this, I admit to it. I blame my second major for destroying my ability to spelle the wyrds of the Englysh speche correctly. However, things like making “become” one word is pretty obvious, and as a history teacher, he, of all people, needs to know that “God” is capitalized.k

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