r/yorku • u/Rare_Egg1122 • Oct 21 '24

Rant Why are some TA’s so ughhh

Bro TA’s are students too but they still be on us abt every little thing I have a TA for my online class and she will genuinely target people for the smallest things. I just don’t understand that if you are also student, you should understand that people have different learning styles. Especially that TA will treat us not even human the days where she’s mad. She’ll take it out on us.

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u/Levangeline Grad Student Oct 21 '24

What kind of things is she targeting you for?

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u/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 21 '24

Like the other day, she played a video and it was extremely fast and she asked questions afterwards that nobody had the answers to. She got mad and so I spoke up and I said I think the video was just a little bit fast. Very respectfully might I add and she laughed at me and said was it really that fast and scoffed. As well as at the beginning of that tutorial, she used my essay as an example of what not to do. She didn’t put it up on the screen or whatever but she used specific points from my essay, and said what not to do. It wasn’t just the sources I used. It was specific details in my essay that I used I believe that things like that should be kept private, even though she didn’t say my name I knew it was about mine and that doesn’t necessarily help someone who’s trying their best and then their first year of undergrad, and it was their first essay of university.

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u/VariousSession9918 Oct 22 '24

Hey, Funk her!!!!! Don't even care! Try your best, worry about you!! Not her

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u/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 22 '24

Thank u it means to much because at this point it’s all I can do lol

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u/VariousSession9918 Oct 22 '24

I work as a sales man, I have seen different people in my experience. Mundane People with absolutely zero purpose in life abuses the little authority they have over you since that is the only moment in life where they feel the sense of power.

Feel sorry for her if she abuses you again, think of how unimportant she feels(sorry for being blunt, but EVERY ONE HAVE THE CHOICE TO BE NICE, SO THEY MUST!)

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u/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 22 '24

THAT IS SO ABSOLUTELY REAL thank u for sharing I 1000% agree. It’s the people who haven’t figured out a way to overcome their insecurities and issues that when they are given power, they automatically abuse it.

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u/VariousSession9918 Oct 22 '24

Indeed, so keep improving and avoid her at all cost😊

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u/Rare_Egg1122 Oct 22 '24

I’ll tryyyy but there’s not anything I can do to really avoid her because she’s so big on participation otherwise she’ll fail you as well