Yesterday my director said that we’d have a meeting earlier in the day on Friday to learn a new computer system. We’re required by contract to arrive an hour before class. According to my director we’d have to arrive 2.5 hours early to see the demonstration from the people setting up the program.
I told her that my contract already has an hour for them to do the meeting, and there was no reason to show up that early. Last time they arrived, they wasted everyone’s time because their program didn’t work, and I wasn’t going to come in 2.5 hours early to sit around and watch them struggle with the computer system.
I asked when they were showing up, and when they’d be ready. They weren’t going to be the same thing, so why do we have to be here if we’d be sitting around doing nothing? The director said she’d call the office in Seoul to see when they’d arrive, and how much time it might take to set everything up. If it did take a while to set up, we’d be allowed to arrive later.
She returned to the office and said we only needed to arrive 30 minutes earlier than normal. I saved everyone a lot of time.
Since I had fought for the change in schedule, I found it important to arrive on time today. When I was coming up in the elevator, the man installing the programs rode up with me. Seems that they had been a lot later than expected.
Even though I had arrived 30 minutes early for this meeting, we STILL waited around for 30 minutes before they had everything ready. We would have wasted 2 hours if I hadn’t complained about their dumb schedule!
Anyway, the program is really pretty cool, but we only saw the student’s side of the program. Because there is no history to track, and no scores to compare, they haven’t opened the teacher’s part of the program yet.
So, while we know what the students will be doing when they sign up, we don’t know how to sign up, how to check the grades, or anything to administer our school. They’ve planned meetings for all of that. We’ll have a meeting every week for the next month as they roll out features. Even though the program is well made, it’s still work in progress.
If I have to sit through more of these “don’t keep to a schedule” meetings where nothing happens, I’m going to get very annoyed.
