The Full Story

As way of background, I have many hats (theoretical and non) at the school. One of my "fun" jobs is posting pictures on the school bulletin board every two weeks. These usually are the pictures I have shot at the many different school functions I attend. It seems like a fun job, but it is a lot of editing, sorting, printing, cutting and pasting. But the students seem to enjoy it, so I do as well.

However, every so often, some student will take it upon themselves to take down a picture or deface a picture. This irks me to no end. I spend my time putting it up there, and they have the nerve to take it down without telling me. This bothers me for two reasons:
1.) I put the time in to do it...respect my work
2.) When they mess with it (even taking it down), it makes my work look bad (see: respect my work).

I know to you law students, this is a stupid job that you can just treat as if it is sweeping the floor but to me it is not.

Evidence of this treatment:

Last night, I took down the old board, which had the exam schedule on it. I took it down because graduation is Saturday and I did a 3L retrospective. Figuring most people would know when and where their last exam was, I did not think much of taking the schedule down (it usually is not put there to begin with...I was filling up space, to be honest and thought it would be nice).

I walked in this morning and noticed that someone had scribbled: WHERE IS OUR EXAM SCHEDULE?


Why they wrote that down on the board is beyond me?
Are they 2 years old and do not know the difference between paper on the wall and paper in their hand?
Are they a moron who doesn't know the difference between asking someone and asking a piece of paper?
Did they expect the wall to give them an answer or the exam schedule back? This is not Hogwarts, people. Inanimate objects do not have the ability to help you here.
Or is the likely case, that they are immature, lazy, and disrespectful? (I think we have a winner, Bob)

I was so irate (mainly, because I just got some good news-more about that later, was running to tell KW in the library, and saw this...talk about a crash). I immediately envisioned administering a Charlie's Angel butt-whooping to the culprit. My 4 in. heel would pin the idiot's trachea to my board...that would make me feel vindicated for the extra hour of work I would have to redo. I was so angry that I vented to...well...a lot of people. But my office soul mate understood my heel-inflicted-pain-plan, and made me this to put up on the board:
That is a shoe in the throat, fyi. Isn't she awesome, btw?

Some people thought it was crazy...I thought it crazy funny.
I did not put it on the board, instead I wrote an email to the students dripping with southern sarcasm. The final line read:

Thank you for continuing to treat the law school and the work of others with respect.

I think my mom would be proud.