Not strictly a profession, a 'professional' institution!
The entire (okay, the majority of) staff at Manchester Metropolitan University, administrative and scholarly persons included. Could not tell their collective arses from their elbows. I've never before had the pleasure of spending a year dealing with such a bunch of disorganised and peevish people.

P.s Observations are from personal experience only; I am full of annoyance.
P.p.s That'll teach me to go to a former Polytechnic.
(TruckfulsOfWoo, Thu 27 May 2010, 15:21, 9 replies)

You mean the Mickey Mouse University
they don't call it that for nowt.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Thu 27 May 2010, 15:34, closed)

Yeah, I was sucked in by the shiny open day...Funny you should call it that, my dad said that yesterday when I was ranting to him! Ah well.
(TruckfulsOfWoo, Thu 27 May 2010, 16:33, closed)

Similarly scarred.
I went to MMU and I was stuck in bloody Alsager which would make the metropolitan area of Manchester bigger than Wales (disclaimer: size comparison may not be entirely accurate).
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 27 May 2010, 16:06, closed)

Further Disclaimer
Thinking Alsager is, in any cunting way, 'metropolitan' may also be not entirely accurate.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Thu 27 May 2010, 16:26, closed)

The whole place has been fabricated into a web of lies and misundertandings! Can't wait to have done with it.
(TruckfulsOfWoo, Thu 27 May 2010, 16:37, closed)

I left at the end of year one.
Never looked back...mind you that would probably be because I didn't want to look at a field with some shitty buildings in it populated by militant feminists , communists and holier than thou mature students (not all mature students, just the badge wearing, cardigan draped goons who haven't got the guts to be hippies).
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 28 May 2010, 15:28, closed)

Southampton Solent University is no better. Whilst I may have an HNC in Building Surveying I did not receive £3.5k worth of tuition by any stretch of the imagination.
(jono_h, Thu 27 May 2010, 18:23, closed)

^THIS! I feel the need to write an angry letter but know that it won't make one iota of difference :(
(TruckfulsOfWoo, Thu 27 May 2010, 20:01, closed)

Southampton Solent....
You should try going to the Warsash campus... It may surprise you that the main site is seen as the model of efficiency and glory. They can't even manage to get a timetable written for monday before friday afternoon. Every week.
(badgerlikespeed, Fri 28 May 2010, 8:14, closed)