Gender in the Workplace (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog)
When two students followed me to my office after an exam, they gasped when I opened my door.
Student 1: “Dr. Jerz — your office is clean!”
Student 2: “Did your wife come here?”
The shocked guffaws from myself and Student 1 attracted the attention of a colleague from across the hall, who said she wanted to see my office for herself.
For the record, I told everyone that I’m man enough to clean my own office.
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My office at Texas A&M University is rarely used because my two officemates allowed me to have one shelf on a difficult to reach bookcase (I am vertically challenged), so that space is literally spotless. Also, my library of texts and comics is housed in my apartment. If I need to be mobile, then I grab my notes and whatever texts I need for the current project I am working on, my laptop, and my iPod. Voila!
But only after all of the exams are graded, and the papers returned and thos pesky student projects are out the door…. My office looks clean between the end of fall term and the start of spring term. During the term – it’s a disaster area…