2016 Championship Harassment Survey

[marshall]

Originally Posted by Tartan47

2481 has a standard practice with the students that any clothespins they find are taken to the pit crew for distruction/disposal. Should any other teams participating at the same event wish to drop clothespins off at the 2481 pit I'm sure the pit captain would be happy to oblige

Some of our students did that one year at some event... I feel like it just brought more of them out though.

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I am just sick of dealing with this though. I have to take time away from my own students and go track down the other team involved, find a reasonably astute student or an adult, explain to them that they need to stop it while holding some level of self-control so I don't scream at them to stop perpetuating a culture of invading the personal space of others. Meanwhile my students felt threatened, intimidated, and I'm sure a little embarrassed that they have a mentor having these conversations. And then after I've done it, I have to deal with the eye rolling... yeah, I'm the guy in zebra-striped pajama pants and grease covered hands who just told your team to stop harassing my students!!!! It irritates the crap out of me!!!! #TSINMFD
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If I had to guess it started because some team brought in clothespins as their team giveaway/button substitute and then boredom took over and now we have a lame tradition that shows no respect for personal space.