Seen this in places in the Web, but not so much to stop things from moving on.
For all of you out there, we are still using only one module: the OCM (Online Change of Matriculation). Maybe you meant the OCM sucked? Or perhaps the whole registration process sucked?
One must understand though that from my viewpoint and our current condition: there is no pleasing everybody.
One critic (posted in a forum) says “pahirap yang SystemOne na yan e!” He/She goes on to support his statement by saying “may klase pa din ng friday pero lab na lang ngayon kasi parang lahat e 1.5 hrs na. kahit ge.”
Uhhmmmmmmm….OK…..Uhmmmmmmmmm…..
Some others just posted the above title as is in their shoutboxes and such. Ok, if that works for you it is fine by me.
It got blamed for some people not getting slots initially or for their courses scheduled at the “wrong” times. I can forgive most, I mean some comments are made out of ignorance. Some people just plainly like to “bitch” up (even if they are males), again if that works for you, it’s fine by me. I mean I work to get positive results, I don’t know what you intend to do, “bitch” up until someone notices you and do something? I mean I noticed some of you but I’m not doing anything. The first time I did that, the girl, I was supposedly to help in some way, made a comment that didn’t even penetrate my bone-and-marshmallow armor (but learned the lesson of not listening to my good intentions) saying I was “epal” or something.
Go ahead and blog them comments, I am reading most of them thanks to Google but those aren’t addressed to me or to SystemOne in some way, so I just read them. It’s good though you have somewhere to release tension and stress 
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People who wanted to solve their problems, some of them I aided, but there was no making me into a superperson and help them all (I apologize to those who asked for but didn’t get my help).
The number of people who did not complain much greatly outnumbers people who did. I mean most of the happy people didn’t have blogs to bitch up in (not that they needed to do that though). So, I guess that’s enough motivation to move on.
I tell you things that sucked though:
- I suck at server setup. The first day experience really eats me up from the inside, but at least I’m doing “some” things about it.
- The previous Summer term sucked. I mean the not paying of honorarium or overload pay or what not, turned the university into a ghost town. If the Summer term was like the previous ones, the scarcity of slots would have been lessened for the first semester.
- [General] It sucked that our budget is not enough to ensure the “existence” of real teachers in UP hence “more slots”. [ I mean I'm just an imposter , I can't even finish my MS Thesis on time, so no I am not a real teacher. >:) ]
- It sucked that some people who make the schedules didn’t check if they were “correct”. It sucks a little bit that they don’t communicate with each other to ensure that students in their departments who need to take courses in the other department have somewhere to fit in.
- [Specific] People who bring their relatives to help them bitch up “suck”. That goes double to those whose relatives try to lecture us on offering enough. WE DON’T HAVE ENOUGH. How about you tell your sons and daughters to come and teach here AND not tell them there is money abroad?
- [Specific] Someone from the department offering a course whose lecture duration was weirdly incorrect came to my office while I was attending to a line of students looking at me as if it was my fault and was so demanding. I mean, you are far older and therefore I must be respectful, but that kind of behaviour sucked.
- [Specific] People who say “SystemOne sucks” (and don’t even try to understand the whole system) and don’t tell me what exactly sucks, suck. Maybe you meant: OCM sucked? I mean, I can arrogantly say, the idea of SystemOne I don’t think you can understand, so next time be specific.
- [Specific] People who forgot their passwords and people who “accidentally” clicked buttons. I mean, what the hell! Are you playing MineSweeper on the OCM web page now?
- It also sucked that some deserving students didn’t get full load. There weren’t enough slots or nothing to fit your schedule. You were already prioritized in REGIST (I assume) but it can only do so much.
- It sucked that students do not follow or even realize they have a PLAN OF COURSEWORK!
- In the above comment, that is because people flunk subjects and [RANT] it sucks that I teach at UP on a low salary and I PAY TAXES. If only I can chose who or what my taxes will go to, but no. People call themselves “ISKOLAR” ng bayan. WTH. Flunking subjects should be made a form of corruption at least for those who flunk subjects because they are always absent or don’t listen to the teachers and such. Maybe this TOFI will make students value their education more, some (more) good may come out of it.
- So if you don’t have enough slots for any given semester, stop and think that it may be your KARMA before blaming something else.
Feel free to add things that suck via your comments.
Peace out y’all. >;)
