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Jun. 19th, 2014 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynDear instructors for the Massachusetts-approved gun safety course I was supposed to take last night*:
I can understand the class being held in a grubby-looking basement conference room. I was sort of under the impression the lecture part of the class was going to be held at your facility and then we'd have to test on a laser-based range or something similar, but whatever. Lectures happen where they happen, and I'm fine with that.
What I'm not fine with is that the class was supposed to be from 6:30 to 10 PM, and that by 6:45 your instructor had not shown up. I admit, I paid a Groupon price for your class rather than a full price, but I still paid for it. When I was in college, we would wait fifteen minutes for a tenured PhD-holding instructor to show up before leaving class (twenty to thirty minutes if the professor in question was Dr. Laing, because everybody knew about his wife's medical issues and we were willing to cut him more slack). We were paying a lot more per minute for those classes and we still only waited fifteen minutes before saying 'the instructor doesn't care, so why should I'.
Which, in a nutshell, is why I wasn't there whenever your instructor showed up last night. I hope he had a good reason for being late, but I didn't have a good enough reason to stick around to hear it.
*I do not particularly want or need a firearms license, but if I ever find myself in an action movie situation, or go hunting with my uncle who does these things for fun, I would like to know what I am doing before touching the tools involved
I can understand the class being held in a grubby-looking basement conference room. I was sort of under the impression the lecture part of the class was going to be held at your facility and then we'd have to test on a laser-based range or something similar, but whatever. Lectures happen where they happen, and I'm fine with that.
What I'm not fine with is that the class was supposed to be from 6:30 to 10 PM, and that by 6:45 your instructor had not shown up. I admit, I paid a Groupon price for your class rather than a full price, but I still paid for it. When I was in college, we would wait fifteen minutes for a tenured PhD-holding instructor to show up before leaving class (twenty to thirty minutes if the professor in question was Dr. Laing, because everybody knew about his wife's medical issues and we were willing to cut him more slack). We were paying a lot more per minute for those classes and we still only waited fifteen minutes before saying 'the instructor doesn't care, so why should I'.
Which, in a nutshell, is why I wasn't there whenever your instructor showed up last night. I hope he had a good reason for being late, but I didn't have a good enough reason to stick around to hear it.
*I do not particularly want or need a firearms license, but if I ever find myself in an action movie situation, or go hunting with my uncle who does these things for fun, I would like to know what I am doing before touching the tools involved
