After having a professor basically ask us induvidually to memorize and repeat parts of it to him, I've finally realized why "its on the Syllabus" is annoying.

Professors are so goddamn inconsistent with it.

For some they want you to follow everything to the letter, others haven't changed it since 1999, others basically just copy and paste university policies, others make changes to half of it, others forget it exists, and so on. So when I see a Syllabus I basically take it as a suggestion and a place to answer basic questions rather than this holy document. Ergo, when I start getting a pop quiz on the thing i get more than a little annoyed.