What Should I Do?

From Ruined for Life, my old blog

I just tried to download the new Explorer and learned that this computer is running on illegal Windows software. I'm going to see if others downstairs are. It could be the vendor's misdeed. If I worked in the US, I'd just explain the situation to my boss. At DDB Needham they were so above board on this stuff. I'm not there anymore. Part of me wants to report them. Yet I sort of think the validation test got reported to Microsoft.

I'm having a bad day. I thought things would be smooth sailing as of Friday afternoon. My classes are winding down. I've got a lot to grade, but am on schedule with that. Next week Monday and Tuesday I'm giving tests and Weds. is sort of a Last Harrah fun day. Thurs. I'm home.

I walk in the door after a little pizza party with my Bible Study group and the phone rings. It's Young Ok calling about the schedule. Mine is kind of weird or rather bad. The good thing is I can get Mon. off because all classes will meet twice a week for 75 minutes. Everyone just has to work 4 days. My four days are oddly timed. Weds and Fri. I start at 9 and end at 5:45 so I have these long gaps. (Thank God I live on campus and can go home in between.) Tues and Thurs. I start at 3 and end at 6:45. I know I can somehow make lemonade out of these lemons, but I'm curious if everyone's schedule is so poorly constructed. My guess is that they aren't.

Then I'd asked to teach 6, rather than 5 classes to make some extra money. Since I have such a crappy social life here, why not work like crazy and have little time to dwell on the negative? Well, that request was impossible to meet because I'm not working on Mon. Huh? I've got a huge gap Tues. - Friday.

I'm livid because Geoffrey always gets to teach extra (he taught 3 extra classes this term). He makes an extra $22K+ (US) from his double summer school and extra regular term classes. That's per year. Julian and Scott also teach extra.

I'm really aware of my low status. They couldn't give me extra classes the last two summers either. What is up?

Well, this makes me really want to report their widespread software piracy to Microsoft. My motives are now tainted. When I first learned of the illegal software, I thought of reporting it. I just sent a letter to Pearson publishing to report flagrant illegal copies made of their chemistry text. So I'm on this whistleblowing wave.