I'm an undergraduate reader and my professor just emailed me (10:30PM) to come in before 8 AM to calculate test scores that he procrastinated on and then hand them in to him by 11 AM so he can give it to his class (he has two classes - 8-10AM and 11AM-1PM.) Everything about this is WTF.
1. It's late. I could easily have been asleep and missed this message.
2. I could have had classes and I do in fact have other shit to do during that time.
3. Can he not stay up an extra hour to do it himself? (I'm not even the reader for that class!)
4. He has between 10-11AM free to do it himself (I'm assuming, might be wrong).
I took 6 classes from him in 3 quarters and I had no idea he was like this or I wouldn't have agreed to be his undergrad reader. I'm already doing way more work than I should be doing and getting less research support and less than 1/10 of the pay (not exaggerating - they only pay for a set 5 hours a week when end up working more than 20 hours - is there some recourse for that?)
And this is a professor I need a letter of rec from (ARGH!) I know this is a little dramatic but this is after a long, long series of frustrations with this professor (not communicating and then asking why I didn't grade the 20 tests he dumped in his box without telling me about it the next morning.)
For grad school, is it normal for professors to pass things off late at night and expect you to do it the next morning? Let me know - I'm probably going to grad school so if it is I'll take this as good training. If not, I'm definitely not doing this again next quarter. Actually, if I can find another professor to work with, I will drop this one quick. I now know why the previous grader left this job in the middle of last quarter.