I turned in my progress review to my committee. My committee's job is to read the paper and tell me what I am doing right or wrong so that I can get a degree in a reasonable time. So, as they are interrogating me, I noticed one of my committee members flipping through my paper and one of the pages is flipped over. So, my first thought is dang, she is going to rip me a new one (she yelled at me in the past for an ink smudge). Then, I realize omigosh, she didn't even SKIM my paper. I have heard of people flipping a page in the middle of a manusript in order to see if an editor actually read it. I always thought it was a bit unprofessional, but I must say in this case, it was really, really funny. Almost worth looking stupid.
Posted by wbriggs (Member # 2267) on :
I would never do that with an MS. An editor who doesn't read it is more likely to send it back saying, "Sorry, we don't have time to read" than lie (why lie when the truth has no repercussions?); and it would annoy an editor that does read.
I still got accused of it once. I got back an MS with every page except the first one out of order, and a note expressing rage that I had done that intentionally to spy on him. I think someone there must have dropped it on the floor.
Posted by sholar (Member # 3280) on :
Mine was extremely unintentional. I would never play games like that with my career. But, since it had happened, I enjoyed it. Esp since the grad students are always complaining that faculty blows off their obligations and faculty says they always read all of our papers. Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
I think that the ink smudge trick is a clever one. I'd make it a homophone usage, though
