Is it really so hard to do your job?

[brendon_small]

This is it, my first Pitting…I pit a couple things…

(Yes, I know this is lame, but I’m angry)

1.) Miss Bitch in the computer lab today, I pit you

Honest, there was a reason why I left all my shit, my backpack, notebook, and even my hat, sitting on the keyboard to a computer that I was logged into. Do not remove my stuff, place it in a pile on the floor, and log me off the computer while I’m in the restroom…I went to take a piss and couldn’t have been gone 5 minutes…I wouldn’t care so much, but you are not even using the computer, one of your children is. There are 5 of them…on 5 computers…you are on a 6th one…and there is this big sign that reads “Due to increased student usage, do not allow dependents to use computers in this lab, we have a separate lab designated for this use.”

While I’m not so mad that you decide to break an obvious rule, I am mad that you logged on and let these kids sit there, while they click aimlessly on the desktop and maybe paint (if they get that far). It is way to far to go to my house to print off papers for this class in time, and it would be nice if this lab was a place where people followed rules.

2.) People who work in this lab (there were three of you)

Damnit, it is your job. I disliked my last job, and was only there for a paycheck, and it’s possible you are working in here for the same reason, but at least do the minimum to get by. Do not sit there like a fucking vegetable while two other people complain that this woman did the exact same thing to there computer, and do not get angry with me and threaten to throw me out of the lab when I complain to the other people working that I can not use a computer because this lady feels rules do not apply to her. Obviously, you feel the same. I work on campus. I understand it isn’t the best job, but doing nothing at all must be nice. At least I have some respect for people who can do decent work when they are needed. Hell, I don’t even care if you do anything in general, but when someone makes a complaint about something going on in your area of work, please have the decency to answer them instead of pretending you can’t hear them.

Yes, I could’ve walked across campus to the library and look for an open computer. I also could’ve went to the room next door that is normally locked for a classroom and print the paper off before that teacher arrives to begin class. But damnit, I pay to use this lab. Also, I simply despise people who do not do what they were hired to do. It is simply shitty of you, and I’m sure if your boss had time to come in and see the shitty way you behaved, she would have.

Brendon

[myskepticsight]

A lady brought her brood of kids to a campus computer lab?

[Ferret_Herder]

It happens. I’ve seen a kid or two, there with an employee (their mother) in the medical library computer lab at the medical center where I work.

[fessie]

Gah! Complain to the manager, there’s got to be one. That’s absolutely outrageous!

Honestly, colleges DO forget sometimes that undergraduates are their paying customers. When I worked at Penn State, they didn’t have enough stools for their chemistry students! No chairs - is that rocket science, getting people someplace to sit? OTOH, it would probably help if more students behaved like adults instead of children at summer camp, away from home for the very first time. It undermines everyone’s credibility.

I often stick up for moms, but I’ve got nothing good to say about a woman who’d teach her children such awful manners. I hope you confronted her directly, she deserved to have been embarrassed.

[Lissa]

@fessie

Gah! Complain to the manager, there’s got to be one. That’s absolutely outrageous!

Honestly, colleges DO forget sometimes that undergraduates are their paying customers. When I worked at Penn State, they didn’t have enough stools for their chemistry students! No chairs - is that rocket science, getting people someplace to sit? OTOH, it would probably help if more students behaved like adults instead of children at summer camp, away from home for the very first time. It undermines everyone’s credibility.

I often stick up for moms, but I’ve got nothing good to say about a woman who’d teach her children such awful manners. I hope you confronted her directly, she deserved to have been embarrassed.

Regrettably, someone like that has absolutely no sense of shame and obviously has an over inflated sense of entitlement. Embarrasment probably will be ineffective

[Pullet]

So mom bitch logged 3 people off of their computers while their backs were turned so that she and her litter could entertain themselves for a while?

[brendon_small]

Yes…she decided her children were more important than other paying customers.

I work in the english commons as a tutor (which is just down the hall) and while I said nothing to the mom, I did email the lady in charge of that lab and she replied today. She said she will talk to the workers who were there, as she recieved another complaint about the incident yesterday, and I am glad.

I know it seems lame, but as fessie stated, the undergrads are paying customers.

Brendon

[brendon_small]

@Pullet

So mom bitch logged 3 people off of their computers while their backs were turned so that she and her litter could entertain themselves for a while?

oops…I meant to answer this with my last post. She did log off three people. One person I believe was at the front of the room waiting on paper to print out. I’m all for kids being around on campus…one of my favorite things is that they bring the children over from the pre-school that the campus runs and we play games outside with them in between classes. The problem is, there is a computer lab in the UC for guests to the university, it even had a room for children to watch tv while the mom can use a computer.

Again, I know it is a minor inconvenience at most, but I know I would be fired for not doing my job, and I hope that the people who did not do theirs at least are punished in some way (even if it is only verbal warning and such)…

Brendon

[Clothahump]

@brendon_small

Yes…she decided her children were more important than other paying customers.

I work in the english commons as a tutor (which is just down the hall) and while I said nothing to the mom, I did email the lady in charge of that lab and she replied today. She said she will talk to the workers who were there, as she recieved another complaint about the incident yesterday, and I am glad.

I know it seems lame, but as fessie stated, the undergrads are paying customers.

After bringing it to the attention of the person in charge who was there and did nothing, I would have gone back to the computer, kicked the brat off and logged back in.

[Guinastasia]

Wait-how was she able to get her kids onto the system? When I was in college, you had to log in with your student ID-and I don’t believe you could log in to more than one computer at a time.

If I had been there, I’d have torn the woman a new one if she logged me off, THEN I would have gone and gotten security. Both colleges I went to (one was a community, I then transferred), that woman would have had her ass booted and probably her lab priviledges suspended.

[shamrock227]

@brendon_small

I know it seems lame

No. It’s not. I am outraged on your behalf (not that that really helps you in any way at all).

I know at 37 years old I should just stop being surprised by rude, awful people, but I am simply flabbergasted that anyone would have nerve to do what this woman did. Not only once, but three times over?

This is where I should be telling you what you should have done But I have to be honest, although at this point in my life I am *starting *to get mouthy with people like this, when I was in College and all through my 20s, I would have done the same thing you did.

Good for you for emailing the Manager. I hope she comes through and something like this does not happen again.

[LonesomePolecat]

@myskepticsight

A lady brought her brood of kids to a campus computer lab?

Someone who’s supposed to be literate enough to attend college says “I could have went”?

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@Guinastasia

Wait-how was she able to get her kids onto the system? When I was in college, you had to log in with your student ID-and I don’t believe you could log in to more than one computer at a time.
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Tell me about it! I’m currently enrolled in an online program at CSU Fullerton, but live a couple of miles from UCLA, where I’m an alumnus. I would LOVE to be able to take my laptop there and study, but I can’t get into their broadband access because I’m not a student.

Ironically, a couple of years ago before they locked down their hotspots, anyone could use them. I did, one time, and IExplorer still doesn’t work right, from that one incident.

[Dr.Drake]

Wait, we have to write in formal standard written English here? Dude, that’s something me and my friends are so not cool with. (Checks grammar.) I mean, message board correspondence ought to eschew colloquialisms of all sorts, syntactial and grammatical, and strive for an elevated tone.

[BoBettie]

Maybe the lady was packing heat or there was some obvious reason you didn’t do this, but why in the world did you not go back up to your computer and say “Move.” or even “These computers are for students. Please move your child.” Are people really that afraid of even the most minor confrontations? I agree the lab people should have done it, but man, you would really consider walking across campus to the library to find another computer before doing this? Ridiculous. I’m having trouble working up any sympathy at all.

Did the other people who had computers taken over just stand there looking at them and seething or did they say something and address the problem?

[PoorYorick]

@Dr. Drake

Wait, we have to write in formal standard written English here? Dude, that’s something me and my friends are so not cool with. (Checks grammar.) I mean, message board correspondence ought to eschew colloquialisms of all sorts, syntactial and grammatical, and strive for an elevated tone.

ahem

That should be “Dude, that’s something with which my friends and I are not cool.”

Just kidding. I know that the rule eschewing ending prepositions has gone the way of the dodo.

[Lissa]

@Guinastasia

Wait-how was she able to get her kids onto the system? When I was in college, you had to log in with your student ID-and I don’t believe you could log in to more than one computer at a time.

At our local branch campus, you can just walk in, sit down and start surfing. I do it all the time while Hubby’s teaching. No one has ever asked me for an ID.

[Troy_McClure_SF]

@brendon_small

She did log off three people… Again, I know it is a minor inconvenience at most

Seems like it could be a hell of a lot worse than that, if you were writing an important paper and she didn’t bother to Save before Closing.

BoBettie- In situations like these, I can’t see polite logic as being useful. I mean, what kind of person thinks it’s perfectly okay to log off computers that others are working on? If they’re dumb enough to treat the whole public space as their own personal daycare, they’re probably too dense to understand why the mean college student hates her children.

Simple? Sure, but I’ve worked in customer service. A lot of people aren’t worth reasoning with, and I take incidents as this as fair warning.

[brendon_small]

@Guinastasia

Wait-how was she able to get her kids onto the system? When I was in college, you had to log in with your student ID-and I don’t believe you could log in to more than one computer at a time.

If I had been there, I’d have torn the woman a new one if she logged me off, THEN I would have gone and gotten security. Both colleges I went to (one was a community, I then transferred), that woman would have had her ass booted and probably her lab priviledges suspended.

Well, our campus has this wonderful system that somehow allows multiple computers to be logged on to the same name. I don’t know exactly why, but it’s been this way all of my 3 years. I learned this when I was a freshman…

@LonesomePolecat

Someone who’s supposed to be literate enough to attend college says “I could have went”?

You are absolutely right. Also, I should have typed out “five” instead of 5.

@BoBettie

Maybe the lady was packing heat or there was some obvious reason you didn’t do this, but why in the world did you not go back up to your computer and say “Move.” or even “These computers are for students. Please move your child.” Are people really that afraid of even the most minor confrontations? I agree the lab people should have done it, but man, you would really consider walking across campus to the library to find another computer before doing this? Ridiculous. I’m having trouble working up any sympathy at all.

You are also absolutely right. Given, I should have, and the other people might have. I had a class to go to and the argument is just not worth it to me. I didn’t actually consider going to another computer at the moment, but I did weigh the idea of starting the angry conversation with the woman, or leaving for my class a few minutes earlier…I figured it’s best just to leave angry than get involved with this situation more at the moment and then (my luck) end up being late for something that was actually more important.

@Spectre of Pithecanthropus

Tell me about it! I’m currently enrolled in an online program at CSU Fullerton, but live a couple of miles from UCLA, where I’m an alumnus. I would LOVE to be able to take my laptop there and study, but I can’t get into their broadband access because I’m not a student.

I also do not get to use hotspots on campus I think it is sad because the only thing stopping me is that I would have to use IE exclusively, or at least have it installed at all times, and I enjoy Firefox much more. Also, I would have to pay $60ish a quarter for their virus protection, even though my laptop came with two year online virus protection. I just don’t feel that it’s worth it.

[kimera]

If you don’t mind me asking, what college are you attending? When I went to UC, there were some crazies in one of the labs I often visited. One of them, was this guy who spent all of his time trolling. He would often go into chatrooms and pretend to be females and get guys to cyber with him. Then he would start saying crazy shit in the middle of the cybering while laughing his ass off out loud. He was very creative and intelligent, just completely insane.

LonesomePolecat, college standards have slipped. You should see the schools I’m getting into.