As a TA, I loved it when students actually showed up. They had better questions than during class, and they always did better in class in the end. Office hours are one of the great college cheat codes. 90% of office hours are spent wishing someone would just show up…

So many times I can tell when my boss has been yelled at by his boss, so he has to come yell at us about whatever. If he would simply say “this is what the people upstairs want to see, how would we implement it?” he’d get a much more receptive audience.