‘You wanted me to do the speech, deal with it’: Professor gets even with Dean after being ordered to make a speech for 150 students

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    Font - Posted by u/mdlapla 6 hours ago 2 Professor is forced to to a speech, complies to the max M OC
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    Font - Back when I was in high school (a loooong time ago) whenever an important date approached (IE: Independence day, etc...) we would line up in the courtyard and would have to be standing still as in formation and one of the teachers would do a speech about the date and the importance of it.
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    Font - Those speeches would usually be around 10-15 minutes long (about as long as it was humanely possible to keep 150 teenagers lined up and standing still on formation and listening) and the teacher doing the speech would rotate amongst all the faculty and, since there were quite a few teachers, each teacher was due around once a year or less than that.
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    Font - There was one notable omission on the teacher's roster. The mechanography teacher (this would age the post really well I guess...) NEVER did a speech, NEVER, let's call him Mech. He would always refuse and get away with it for whatever reason. In around 30 or so years teaching at the school, it became famous that he NEVER did a speech.
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    Font - Until this one day when I guess the dean got out of bed on his wrong foot or whatever and he absolutely demanded Mech to do the speech. There was no way to get away with it. Mech would have to do it, his first speech in 30 or so years at the school. Even some of the faculty, former students of Mech themselves, were excited to see the outcome of this power struggle between Mech and the dean.
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    Font - So we lined up at the courtyard, 150 students, 15-20 teachers, etc, etc... And Mech took the stand and the mic with, definitely, a smirk of malicious compliance in his face. AND HE DELIVERED.
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    Font - More than 45 minutes of an absolutely drowsing speech, telling every single minute detail and fact about the date in question. For the students, it was destruction. Having to stand still and silent for almost an hour (failing to do so was one of the most punishable offenses), trying not to fall asleep on our feet.
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    Font - The dean tried to stop Mech twice, the first time, Mech just completely ignored the dean, the second time, Mech just plainly told the dean "you wanted me to do the speech, deal with it" for the whole audience to listen.
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    Font - Around 30-35 minutes, some of the older "I don't give a $%&@ anymore" students started shouting things at Mech, not hurtful things, but colourful commentaries about the speech. We started laughing. Mech carried on as if nothing happened. Dean tried to take the stand to demand silence. Mech denied the dean saying "I'm not finished yet".
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    Font - That day we lost probably 1:30hs of teaching time. We ended up hating Mech for the tort ure he put us through. When he finished, the dean had no choice but to give us a short unscheduled break before returning to class.
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    Font - Over the years, I realized what an absolute masterpiece of malicious compliance Mech delivered. Mech NEVER did a speech again at the school. TLDR: Dean forces a teacher to do a speech he didn't want to, the teacher complies making sure never to be asked to do it again.
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    Font - RealUltimate Papo +2. 5 hr. ago "This is the greatest and worst speech in the world... tribute" Those poor students. Did the dean ever apologise to anyone for making that speech happen? Vote Reply Share
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    Font - mdlapla OP 4 hr. ago +3. Of course he did... not. The dean was an old guy who had been there forever as well. He acknowledged his defeat and took it like a champ, internally. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - misskittypie 5 hr. ago I had to look up mechanography. What exactly was the class? Reply Share Vote MeneerPotato +1.4 hr. ago They were taught how to write letters in one of those pre- computer machines (a typewriter). Quite challenging for some people who had
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    Font - never seen much less used a keyboard. And you had to write using all your fingers without looking at the keys. My teacher used to cover the keyboard with a cloth and see how fast you typed and how many typos were made. Reply Share Vote
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    Font - ZaviaGenX . 4 hr. ago Those speeches would usually be around 10-15 minutes long (about as long as it was humanely possible to keep 150 teenagers lined up and standing still on formation and listening) Made me remember school morning assembly.
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    Font - Some 1000 students, 30-45 mins Monday morning standing. 15ish mins on other days. School anthem, random speech and announcements, public caning, etc. Ive been in 1 hour ones before. At 1pm under the equator sun.
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    Font - PotatoInGlitter. 3 hr. ago This sounds like the impetus for Pink Floyd's Another Brick in The Wall. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - lauriys 2 hr. ago gets the students used to the corporate world of meaningless meetings i guess Reply Share Vote
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    Font - +3 - 4 hr. ago hehe reminds me of when i took a course to become an officer.. duckforceone they told me my briefing was too short, but content was great.
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    Font - So i did a full briefing, with no detail missed. Everything was great. But all the other students had glassy eyes and almost given up writing my briefing down when i passed the 45 min mark... :D
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    Font - now my content was still great, and could i probably have split up the briefing in 2 parts? :D Reply Share Vote

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