The Before

**Originally posted elsewhere on November 22**

It is not my responsibility

Being called a cyber bully is really just awesome. Really it was a blast. Especially since it went on all damned afternoon.

As I have blogged about in the past (here, here,here,and probably a few more times if you really care, I have been going to a business class that is helping me start my own business. Anyway, this class has been frustrating to say the least. While some people seem to care about actually completing the program and getting their work done on time and properly, there are a few that honestly do not seem to care in the slightest. That's fine...it's their call, however for those of us who actually care, it makes it harder to keep finding the motivation and energy to keep going to class (some of us have perfect attendance to keep up...okay it's just me and one other person, but between you and me, the only reason he has perfect attendance despite actually missing two classes is because he discussed it with the teachers or whatever about how they were business related).
I have actually told both teachers that I find it really hard to keep wanting to go to class when some people continuously show up late, they talk AND listen to music in class and when we have in class work to do they distract everyone else. So many times I have pulled my noise reducing headphones and ipod out just to block out the obnoxiousness so I can get my work done. It takes a lot of time to overachieve ya know!

Anyway, now we are at the point in the program where business plans SHOULD be finished(and I say should because there are at least three people I know of who do not have theirs done and are still a long way from being finished). We are now down to one day a week (normally Thursdays) so last Thursday when my friend (hereby referred to as A)and I got to class there were only a few people there. When class started (LATE AGAIN) neither of us were in the least bit surprised because people are always coming in late). I updated my Facebook status (yes in the middle of class, sue me). I stated in my status that I was not in the least bit surprised at how many people were absent from class.

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Basically someone who shall remain nameless thinks I need to miss a class and stop making everyone look bad by not having perfect attendance and by not I guess you could call it overachieving on my homework. I tend to go overboard on completing my assignments and people in the class know it. However, I honestly do not see why I should have to be responsible for making other people in the class look better. They know when we have class and they know when class starts, so they should (as adults) be able to understand the fairly simple concept of scheduling their business activities around class time. Plus, that comment about how "some people were working" is just obnoxious. Ya apparently her business is up and running. Mine is not at this moment, but I work my fucking ass off and other people in the class have operational businesses YET they manage to be in pretty much every class. Some do not, but they fall into the same category of continuously coming late to class, talking in class, and generally being a pain in the ass, so they officially do not count.

Just because my business is not yet up and running, does not mean that I sit around playing video games or watching tv all day. I'm doing work towards getting my business operational and I do my homework.

Some people honestly should not even be in the class anymore, but since I have no control over that, I guess I'll just have to continue having perfect attendance and as people have pointed out "brown nosing"..lol...

Anyway to get to the whole cyber bullying thing, today we had class instead of Thursday. No real reason given, but whatever, I don't care. A and I were sitting in at our table waiting for class to start, which it did at about 10:10 (only 10 minutes late today) with a total of SIX students out of about 17. Yeah not good. About 10:30 a few people started coming in late, one of which came in loudly wearing heels and proceeded to disturb everyone who was trying to listen to the lecture about payroll. Just before 11, she got up and left. She was there for about 30 minutes give or take. We're scheduled to go until at least 2:00. As she was getting up and packing her shit up A leaned over a bit to face her and whispered something about being unprofessional.I missed that completed but she told me about it and updated her FB status to read something along the lines of people in the class being unprofessional. Keep in mind that no names were directly mentioned in hers and you can see above that no names were mentioned directly in mine.

Well our break time rolled around and A and I were talking about the whole thing and people overheard a bit. We were mostly talking about it and how these were OUR opinions and were not directed to any one person in particular, but they were obviously about the class. As far as I'm concerned, people are entitled to their opinions and they can say them, put them in their FB status, Tweet them, or fucking tattoo them on themselves. I don't care. The one teacher who was there in the morning overheard parts of the conversation and decided to essentially lecture the class (but it was more directed to A and I since we were the ones with the mean messages on our FBs)...neither of us took to that very well and we both said that they were on our personal Facebook accounts, not business ones and that no one was mentioned by name and that they were our own opinions. Then, we were both accused of cyber bullying and repeatedly called out for it. Again, neither of us took to that too well. Then one of the guys decided he was going to turn around and cyber bully us. Proceeded to "borrow" our faces from pictures on Facebook and photoshop them. The resulting photos are a little funny however they are rather hypocritical. But whatever.

Thank jebus, we don't have class again until December 2, because honestly I need the break from the class. Although, as much as I need the break, I am not above making my FB status to be rather vindictive and bitchy. What's really funny, is that the girl who originally commented on my FB status about working, messaged me earlier this evening to find out what she missed in class and what the homework was. I of course have not responded to her message. I was going too, but then I decided to wait. Fuck her, because honestly, it's not my responsibility to make sure she gets her work that she's missed and it most definitely is not my responsibility to make her look good.


So what do you think? Were A and I being cyber bullies? Keep in mind that neither of us sought out specific people or their Facebooks to call them out on shit, call them names, be rude etc and neither of us mentioned names directly on our Facebooks.