So there's this teacher at the degree programme I'm in (which is in English). His teaching materials are littered with bad grammar, typos and occasional Finnish. About three weeks back (I think) I offered to proofread his stuff for him because I was just that offended. We struck a deal; he'll give me credits if I proofread some of his slides, fix up the English, stuff like that. It's actually great; I get to do something I enjoy and find to be fulfilling work, benefit from it
and feel worthwhile. I even translated an official application-thing for him into English, and received commendations for it. (Even though they don't feel as affirming from him as they would from someone else, they're still pretty affirming.
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Anyway. That's not the annoying part. The annoying part came today, a few days after I gave him my revisions on a set of slides for a course. I logged into our database, I checked the slides... and not only did he keep some of the slideshows as-is (the bad ones with the bad English), he
left in the comments I made on some of the fixed slides. On the final versions he uploaded into the database. (Stuff like "I kept this as-is because I wasn't sure what you meant. M.P." I was behind on schedule, so I decided that there's some things I should leave to the teacher actually using the material.) I... just... I get that he's busy, being a guidance counselor in addition to being a teacher and all, but. Hate. Hate and despair. Hate and despair and
a frustration as heavy as the weight of the sky on Atlas' shoulders.Also, after facepalming over that I noticed I'd left some of the teacher's random Finnish bits uncorrected. I felt like a failure because I do actually take this seriously. (I sent him a fixed version, obviously. I asked him to inform me if he notices any other errors, but... I wouldn't hold my breath.)