......but yesterday I decided to mess with my Masters of Accounting (MACC for short) classmates in my econ class. As you know (or may not but now you do) accountants are creatures of habit. They don't like change. They like things to be the same everyday. Accountants are just boring people. Now in my class we don't have assigned seating but over the semester everyone has kind of found ageneral area in the room where they feel comfortable, occasionally changing rows and seats, but nothing is set in concrete. Except for the accountants. To give you an idea of how uptight they can be, on the first day of class (THE FIRST DAY!!!)one of them had put her backpack behind a seat and then left the room. While she was out someone came and sat where she left her backpack. There were other seats open and while a normal person would just move to an open seat, she proceeded to go up to the professor and tell him that someone stole her seat. He just shrugged and went back to what he was doing.
Over the semester the 6 accountants (5 of which are women) have pretty much set up one row/camp as their own and they all sit in the same spot everyday. They set up their desks with their laptops, 7 notebooks, non fat yogurt, sliced apples and baggies of grapes. I was wondering the other day what would happen if someone messed up their row. So I did. Adrienne (a former accountant recently converted to the MBA) and I decided to take the two ringleaders seats and view the aftermath. Adrienne heard one of them say "So do we just have to find a different seat?". Luckily for them one of the accountants was gone and they were all able to fit onto the row with 5 seats, but they were not happy.
NEXT WEEK: We don't have class until after Thanksgiving but when we get back Adrienne and I have a plan for the next wrench in the cogs. We're recruiting other students to help and we're going to take up a few seats on their main row as well as the one they transplanted to so they can't all sit together. Someone might go postal but it will be worth it. Just look at it like we're helping them break out of their shells.
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in other news tonight, 26 year old jonathan campbell, a university of utah graduate student was found with a No. 2 pencil stabbed through his heart. There were signs of a struggle as his shirt had low fat yogurt stains and claw marks all over his face.
let me know when you have this class and i will join you.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
that is hilarious. i love making weird people mad.
she told the professor someone stole her seat?!?!?!?! ridiculous.
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