[22593] in Hotline Meeting
Question and possible complaint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (neslihan@MIT.EDU)
Tue May 10 15:27:40 1994
From: neslihan@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 10 May 94 15:27:26 EDT
To: stopit@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU
5/10/94
To Whom It May Concern:
Recently I had a somewhat irritating experience. At around 2:50
pm on Tuesday May 10, I was working with a friend on a workstation
(w20-575-69). The chair I had had bad upholstery and so I took a chair
from a workstation nearby, w20-575-66. The user of the workstation had
logged in and there were two chairs there. Noone had been at that
workstation for 15 minutes so I decide to take the nicer of the two
chairs. When the owner came, he demanded that I give him his chair back.
I replied that he had not been at his workstation for a long time, and
that the chair were not allocated to worktstations but were for
everyones use. Furthermore, there were two chairs at his workstation.
I told him that if he felt so, we could contact hotline to
settle the deal.He said fine and when I got up to go and phone hotline,
he grabbed my chair and sat down.
I am not sure what Athena policy on this obvously trivial matter
is. If I was in the right, then I would appreciate it if hotline or
stopit would email the person who was logged on at w20-575-66 at 2:52 pm
on May 10 and tell him what the policy is and to remind him that someone
has complained about his rude behaviour. He was rude and annoying.
If I shouldn't have taken his chair, which he had not been using
for about 20 minutes by the time he arrived, then I am clearly wrong and
will email him an apology (although I could not find out who he is
because his workstations was not fingerable for some reason; see below:
[3:16pm] [~] % finger @w20-575-66
[w20-575-66.MIT.EDU]connect: Connection timed out
)
Thank you for your help. I would appreciate a response concerning
what happened and whether I was wrong or right.
Sincerely,
Tolga I. Uzuner
