Original post by Village WhisperPlease stop saying "staggering", because it really isn't, especially since I have explained my reasons multiple times now. To repeat again: I wouldn't have minded so much if I thought they had looked at my work.
It is not an "assumption" that they had not looked, it was a deduction. I presume you will "be intrigued" to know my reasoning, so here it is: I know this is because they had clearly had a good rummage of my sheets, they had removed two fragile handmade books from a plastic wallet and just shoved them haphazardly back into my case despite my having written a very clear but polite note explaining that they were fragile, and my sketchbooks were all over the place. My most recent work, however, which I spent ages trying to present it in a way that would make it all easy to understand, was still left in its folder (which I also handmade). I might have thought they'd just put everything back in and tied it up again (despite them leaving my other books undone and in a tangle), but the inside is exactly how I left it. Again, maybe they just put them back in the order I had labelled them, since each sheet was numbered which corresponded to an annotation/evaluation in a separate notebook. However, they could not have known the order of the sheets that were in the same number group, since I put them in the order I did them and I forgot to put dates on the backs. Suggesting that they may have kept them in the right order as they looked through them seems ridiculous, considering the complete mess in which they left the rest of my work.
Now, I think from that it is a perfectly valid deduction that they did not look at my most recent work. I am incredibly organised with my work, and everything has to be in the right order. No one but me know what that right order is, and I know when people have looked through my work. Is that enough of an explanation for you?
I'm not even going to bother with half of the rest of the things you said. I don't see why you felt the need to point out that I don't like the application process as if it's something I didn't know; I clearly said I think it's a terrible way of doing it. You sound like you're proving a point, which you're not. That statement doesn't warrant an "on the other hand", either, since it has nothing to do with whether or not you're belittling people.
As for that last bit, I don't appreciate you saying I "wasted my time". That is absolutely none of your business, thank you. But, for your information, I don't feel I've wasted my time at all. Since you've ****** me off so much, I'm not going to comment on that "tenuous" remark either, but for my own sake not yours.