Yeah, I saw this earlier

Yeah, I saw this earlier today. Hilarious. Classic "Fuck you" to the student.

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In other words, Grow Up! I

In other words, Grow Up!

I love the part of:
"xxxx, get your shit together."

People a forget about this all the time...

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Am I the only one that thinks

Am I the only one that thinks the prof's response was uncalled for? Prof sounds like he has a massive chip on his shoulder if he perceives something like that as a slight.

The student mentioned in his/her email that it was the first day of class. I'm not sure whether NYU has a shopping period policy for classes, but you'd think the professor would understand if a student walked in that late. It would probably have been less disruptive to just let the student sit down than for the prof to stop talking, tell the student to leave, and then resume the lecture.

I wonder what the professor had done if he had been first on the student's shopping list, and the student walked out 15 minutes into the lecture.

Disclaimer: I'm not the aforementioned student, and definitely not at NYU (thank goodness)

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Most professor's have a chip

Most professor's have a chip on their shoulder... this kid is definitely a fucking idiot.

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You realize how much the

You realize how much the student is paying to get his MBA (or how much debt he's taking on)? Sampling a couple classes in the first few days is fine and will save him from wasting thousands of dollars on something that isn't worth his time. Maybe the email wasn't the brightest move on his part, but the professor clearly thinks way too highly of himself and is WAY out of line. A simple "that is my policy, tough shit" would have been a lot better than the horse shit the professor wrote back.

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Both are fuckups.

Both are fuckups.

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I think it would be

I think it would be interesting if we could tell who throws shit at who.

I like the students idea of sampling a class, but how effective is it to see the 1st 1/3rd of one class, the 2/3rd of another and the final 1/3rd of the last class. That is like reading the beginning of one book, middle of another and end of a third and then trying to judge each fairly.

Professor was a little pompous. I mean if I was teaching and someone came in 1 hour late, but entered quietly and professionally, I would ask them after class why there were late. The whole argument of not allowing people to come in so late is that it interrupts the professor and hurts the classes overall learning experience. Well I am sure stopping what you are doing to abruptly tell a student to leave cause way more commotion than just letting them sit down and talking to them afterward.

Both people acted wrongly, but the professor was a little high and mighty.

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agree

agree

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NYU kid obviously has a lot

NYU kid obviously has a lot of bananas to throw around

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would be great if we knew the

would be great if we knew the professor's real name so we can dig up some reviews on RateMyProfessor.com

but yeah, the prof totally pwn3d that noob

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You would think a Cali guy

You would think a Cali guy would be a little more laid back, ya know.

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http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/facul

http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/facultyindex.cgi?id=376

Dam, Dam, Dam. DaCarez, you beat me to it. Congrats.

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Can't believe this happened

Can't believe this happened at a graduate school level, I remember similar dramas back in high school, except the instructors weren't nearly as hilarious and the student didn't use nearly as many complete sentences..

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I agree with m2: I'm not

I agree with m2: I'm not convinced that reply came from a professor.

Understanding that the student's email lacked appropriate humility, the response came back over the top when it wasn't necessary. If there's a communications class at Stern, I would expect that professor stresses that there's no place in a professional environment for sarcasm and hyperbole, even if provoked.

And while being a student is a privilege and not a right, that person is paying a lot of money to gain an education and should be able to, politely and quietly, enter a class late. Many circumstances could cause a student to be late, particularly one in an evening MBA program: work, traffic, emergency, etc. In fact, when recruiting kicks up for the full-time students, interviews will get in the way of class schedules.

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I'll back the Prof. Guy

I'll back the Prof. Guy should get his shit together.

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Classic* Galloway put him in

Classic* Galloway put him in his place.

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I took Galloway's marketing

I took Galloway's marketing class at Stern. Couple of things. Galloway was hired because of his real world success in branding and marketing as opposed to some PhD who just read everything there was to read and was therefore an 'expert'. So he brings a little more salt to the classroom. In the class I took, he gave a full 30% of the grade to participation. Which is as it should be. You can have the best ideas in the room but unless you have the moxie to speak up, so what. He's also not afraid to call you out on your ideas, he wants you to be able to think on your feet.
There are way too many professors at Stern that take a patronizing, hand-holding approach to education which might be fine if you are studying to be a floral arranger. You could literally put your hand up in these classes and say whatever came into your head and watch the professor work whatever you say into some plausible bullshit that you get a nice pat on the back for. These are the 'there are no wrong answers just opinions' practitioners who do MBAs a huge disservice by implying the business world is some peter pan nirvana full of understanding and non-judging wonderful sweet people. Like nobody gets shit-canned for fucking up. Galloway is the antidote to all that and deserves credit for keeping a high standard when he could easily just phone it in like so many others. Just to give you an idea of how ridiculous some of the hand-holding can get, i was in a strategy class talking about Walmart's inventory system and some guy puts up his hand and just says 'Bill Cosby', completely out of the blue. That was it, that was all he said. The instructor without missing a beat goes into some spiel about how Cosby was a spokesperson for Kodak and then spun it back to Walmart's own marketing strategy. Never asked 'wtf?' nothing, just smiled and went on.
The real mistake the student made was that he should have seen Galloway as the real deal that he is, and signed up for his class. Instead he chose to have his widdle feelings hurt and ran to find another, kinder professor. Hardly CEO material.

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All you guys siding with the

All you guys siding with the prof. are being a bunch of little shits. You seem to be forgetting that the MBA is a pretend degree where you don't actually learn anything, you just get to write it on your resume so that it can take you closer to being a bigger douche. For fuck's sake, this guy teaches a class called "Branding." Give me a break. The kid was right to remind him that he's teaching at a business school. If the guy taught say, a class in med school, maybe you should throw him a little respect.

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The professor is a petty

The professor is a petty douche.

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love269 wrote: All you guys

This literally made me crack up out loud. Really funny stuff.

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love269 wrote: All you guys

Says the kid without a job and without a degree, pretend or otherwise.

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Did any of you guys go to

Did any of you guys go to college? People come late to class all the time. They're all adults, and if someone wants to come late to class and miss out, that should be his problem. This isn't some 15-person discussion-based seminar where his coming late breaks the flow; it was likely a 50+ person lecture room.

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love269 wrote: Quote: Says

Dude, just try to be careful. You might wind up working for someone like me this summer. Traders don't always tolerate that kind of attitude from TAs, especially summer interns. The star next to Marcus's name indicates that he's pretty established in industry, too, so who knows, you may be working for him.

I'm not saying this to be mean to you; I'm saying it to try and help you do better this summer. If someone else is paying for your education or your time, you have absolutely no right to talk back, use four letter words, complain, or make "suggestions" in anything but an apologetic tone of voice (assuming you can't easily earn significantly more elsewhere). Once you can earn a lot more money somewhere else and you're hard to replace, or you become a paying customer, that's when you start to get clout. You have to wait until then. Some of us at least sympathize with the MBA student because she is established in industry and she is a paying customer, so she will get a bigger break from some of these people than you'll get.

Edit: The negative vote wasn't from me. I'm sure you must feel very frustrated right now (I've been there- I lost a summer job at 15 because of a similar attitude); the best thing you can do is grab a few drinks, think things over a bit, and decide what kind of reputation you want to build during your summer internship.

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Has anyone bothered to think

Has anyone bothered to think what this means going forward? This seriously compromises his ability as a professor. How can any student email Galloway in the future with any legitimate concerns knowing that email may be leaked by him and end up all over the internet?

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I believe the Deadspin post

I believe the Deadspin post on this implies it was Galloway who sent it to his TA to send to the class.

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