Qué barbaridad!

(This is my response to Dominique‘s post. But I’m re-posting it here, with a slight revision of course, so that the world may know that laziness and idiocy are not the exclusive domains of the students.)

FYI, I’m a student assistant assigned in the Internet Laboratory housed inside the H.S. Library of Holy Cross of Davao College (HCDC). My job as an S.A. is, well, to assist Internet users—students, teachers, co-SAs.

One time, a teacher asked for my assistance. (Much as I want to name this teacher, politeness tells me otherwise. But for convenience’s sake, let’s call him Sir B—B meaning “bald.”)

“Paki-print ko ani Vin,” said Sir B, pointing to the information on the screen.

I looked at it for a while, then followed his instruction.

As I hand the printout to him, I asked, “Para sa asa diay na, Sir?”

“Para sa akong masteral,” he said matter-of-factly, as though his credibility were still intact.

“Ah, I see.”

When Sir B got out of the lab, I chuckled because the information he got came from answers.com.

answers.com as his source of information for his MA Degree?

Qué barbaridad!

I pity not the teacher, but the students who’re under his care—or scare.