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Astra92
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Has anyone ever dealt with some unnecessarily rude advisors at SFU? I'm having issues with enrollment and my department advisor is actually shafting me quite a bit. I'm graduating soon and seriously considering filing a formal complaint. Share your stories please!

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  • jianming
    I don't have anything especially bad. Mostly just I don't really get solid advice telling me what to do, and have to figure out everything on my own.
  • ryan
    I have never had a bad experience with an adviser. I sometimes found their course planning ideas to not be terribly creative, but never malicious =)
  • jianming
    Yours actually give you course planning ideas?

    Mine usually just regurgitate the things I've specifically mentioned I've already learned back to me, then link me to the webpage I learned them from, which never contains the information I'm asking.
  • Astra92
    That sounds like the psych undergrad advisor, for sure. Copy/pasting like nobody's business.
    This specific advisor was unhappy that I went over her head to attain a waiver and decided to revoke it. Definitely the opposite of helpful
  • Annie
    Quite a few comments have come up on TalkSFU about unhelpful advisors. They definitely vary in quality.  If you want to file a complaint go with specific examples of poor service and sound as dispassionate as possible.  No idea whether anything can be done about long-term SFU employees other than some sort of talking-to, but that shouldn't discourage you.
  • TalkUBC
    I heard a particular crim advisor is notoriously terrible and has been around for a while. It's no wonder there is such a high turnover rate of the crim advisors. I miss Lindsay. I never interacted with her face-to-face but had a lot of correspondence and it was alright. She's also hot.

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