Snitching!

Nope I haven't started playing quidditch.

I was doing invigilation today and sometimes we have to send students out of the exam hall. Today I succeeded in getting the chief invigilator kicked out of the hall.

All of it actually started early in the morning with me going to work. First I had a car squeezing in in front of me even though his lane was disappearing and there were no gap in front of me. But still he wanted to squeeze in after the car he previously had before him in his lane. So he horned me to give him space, which I in the end did as I had had enough of stupid Malaysian drivers. Just after that the road splits to left while the main road continues through a traffic light. To shorten their time in queue some people like to go in the furthest right lane as long as possible. So I start slowing down for the traffic light as it is red. And I get horned again because the lady behind, who wants to go left from the right lane, thinks I am driving too slowly compared to the left lane. That made me very annoyed and I kept grumbling for some km afterwards about Malaysians, their driving and their use of the horn when they are in err. I just can’t take it being horned when I abide by the rules. I understand it when some get alarmed if I happen to do something stupid or wrong but using the horn when you are the one stupid and wrong?

I still reached work in a happy mode; it might have been thanks to the lovely “The number of the beast” by Iron Maiden in the stereo or me just being in a good mood. Actually it is very seldom I am grumpy for a long time. I usually explode and than right away go back to a more normal mode.

One of the jobs during the invigilation is to collect the attendance slips and check that they are allowed to sit for the exam and that they are the one that are supposed to sit for the exam. It turned that some didn’t have the proofs for being allowed to sit for the exam and some others didn’t have their identification. Two weeks ago I had to sit for a one hour meeting iterating how important it is to abide by the rules during invigilation. My own faculty head reiterated all I heard at the faculty meeting. And when I point this out to the chief invigilator he sort of commented that it wasn’t that serious to be bothered about. Actually it is not that important for this particular parts and I just made a note of contacting the exam department to get the lecturer for the course to come and vouch for the persons that didn’t have any identification.
When everything has settled down and we were one hour into the three hour exam a guy arrives and comes and sits down at his place. And I tell him that he has to leave the exam hall as he is one hour late and the latest he could arrive is passed by half an hour. But he says that the chief invigilator said it was OK. And sure enough the chief invigilator is coming with exam set for him and I try to state the point but I got ignored.

That mad me totally pissed of, so I brought all my papers and stuff and left the hall. The major reason of course is that I had had enough of law being for the day, but also that I didn’t find the chief invigilator reasonable. So I stormed away fuming, straight to the exam department were I declared that either they do something about this or I won’t do any invigilation. I don’t think that my demands really had anything to do with the actual outcome as they were the one who called the meeting about the importance of following the rules. But sure enough the head of the department was not happy, she called the chief invigilators superior, which sound even more pissed off. And I ended up with walking with the newly appointed chief invigilator to the exam hall and see the old one being asked to go to his boss. And the student who was late got sent out of the exam hall.
So I managed to get rid of both the student and the chief invigilator in one go.

If I wasn’t annoyed with the guy to start with and had those experiences earlier in the morning I think I would have taken more time to convince the chief invigilator than run off to snitch on him. So I feel slightly sorry for him, but just slightly. I mean he might be deaf and have hard to hear what was said during that meeting.