Prof not showing up: Has this ever happened to you?

[Taualumna]

I had my first spring session class today...well, I was supposed to. However, the prof never showed up! There are seven of us in the class, and we all waited for an entire hour (because someone thought that he might have confused the time, and thought the class started at 6)! At least two students called him, to no avail. We're now leaving him our email addresses so he could contact us.

[Lady Pi Phi]

I had a prof do this. We all waited 15 minutes and then left.

Someone in the class went to his office after we all left and it turned out he totally lost track of time and forgot about us.

[Taualumna]

Update: Turns out that the class doesn't start for another two weeks. He's from another department, and they run on a different schedule. I'm thinking of changing to another course, so I can finish up sooner. More later.

[AchtungBaby80]

That happened to me one time...the professor didn't show up, so we all waited for about half an hour and left. We came back next time...no professor. Someone had checked with the dean's office and they said they didn't have anyone to teach that section but they would find someone shortly so we should just come to the next meeting of the class. To make a long story short, they never did find anyone to teach than damn class so I ended up having to take it at night. But hey, at least it got me out of a class with a girl whose boyfriend I made out with not long before that.

I had an American Lit professor who hardly ever showed up to class.

It was a 7:30AM Sophomore english class (which meant that I had to go or else)...and I don't know how many times the English Dept. secretary had to come and tell us Dr. Marshall wasn't showing up that morning. We'd all be pissed off because we all could have slept in that morning.

And when he DID show up to class, he'd be late and often looked hungover or he had no sleep. He'd be so bad with grading papers and returning them to us. Once he even "lost" our assignments (he said he lost them at Macy's, but we knew he was a regular at Club Rose, the skankiest Korean hostess bar in town) and then they MIRACULOUSLY showed up outta nowhere.

The best was getting the papers back... and seeing the stains and indentations of the bottom of a beer bottle. My guess was that he drank Heinekens.

[damasa]

Originally posted by Taualumna
Update: Turns out that the class doesn't start for another two weeks. He's from another department, and they run on a different schedule. I'm thinking of changing to another course, so I can finish up sooner. More later.

So you mean to tell me that you and a bunch of other people were chilling in a room for an hour, waiting for a class that doesn't start for another two weeks?

LOL, you all should be fired....

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by damasa
So you mean to tell me that you and a bunch of other people were chilling in a room for an hour, waiting for a class that doesn't start for another two weeks?

LOL, you all should be fired....

There were communication issues between the prof's department and mine...

[MeLikey]

Yeah, it's happened to me, I think we waited (about 25 of us) for the professor for 45 minutes and left- I just put my head down and napped on and off (it was a 9am class)- we decided to leave after asking the department where he was- turned out he was stuck in traffic and didn't have his cell on him to call the department.

[DGqueen17]

5 minute rule!!

5 minutes for a TA
10 minutes for a prof.
15 minutes if he has tenure.

[GeekyPenguin]

It's 5 and go unless the prof has a history of past chronic tardiness.

An HOUR? Class is only an hour!

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
It's 5 and go unless the prof has a history of past chronic tardiness.

An HOUR? Class is only an hour!

Our class was scheduled from 5-8 pm. We waited an hour because a classmate said that his classes are often 6-8.

[honeychile]

I had a professor who didn't show up for the first class. After 10 minutes, we were about to leave when the Departmental secretary came in and told us that we would have no class for at least 2 weeks, as the professor had been detained in a Communist country. We all got calls when he was finally released, and had a refund on our tuition!

[chideltjen]

i have always heard it's 10 minutes if the teacher is part time and 15 minutes if the teacher is full time.

I remember I had a professor that would always show up 14 minutes late to class. We were all set to leave at the 15 minute mark and right as we were getting ready to bolt, she would show up. It sucked!

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally posted by Ginger
5 minutes for a TA
10 minutes for a prof.
15 minutes if he has tenure.

DItto