Letters: GVSU Edition
Dear GVSU IT people,
In a building that has a million conference rooms, at a university that claims to be one of the "most wired" campuses in the country, is it terribly necessary to have your inane brainstorming session in the middle of the only open lab for students on this end of campus? If so, must you really speak soooooo fucking loudly? Must you be demeaning of college students in your conversations? Must you dress like slobs? Must you be so self-congratulating when your damn system doesn't work 3/4 of the time? Most importantly, must. you. keep. fucking. talking?! Must you continue to use the words "um" and "yea" over and over and over again? Lab = quiet work space, not crazy IT whiteboard markering craziness, thanks. You are SO LOUD, especially you grayhaired lady. You kind of look like Bam's wacky uncle from that Jackass spinoff.
A quote from this craziness ...
-"It's a French newscast."
-"Muy bien."
Ahahahaha, nice Spanish, ass.
Dear GVSU grounds crew,
As much as I'm sure it's absolutely necessary to grind and sand the concrete exteriors of the Lake buildings, does it really have to be done at 10am on a Wednesday? That noise permeates the building walls across campus, and is highly distracting ... annoying ... mindnumbing ... argh. Does anyone think of the impacts on actual students, the people this place purports to serve, when they decide to schedule these things? I'm as well fabulously impressed by the member of your staff I saw watering the lawn from a moving truck passenger seat earlier. Not only can we waste precious ground water on making the admin happy with green grass, but we can do so from an exhaust spewing vehicle as well. Cooooool, guys. Way to be 'green'. Nice.
Dear GVSU records department,
I am not currently unhappy with you, somehow. Keep it up.
Dear GVSU (in an overarching ethereal sense ... mostly, people that actually make decisions),
Is it terribly necessary to spend so much time on committees and task forces and planning sessions about website designs and Flikr photo choices and whether the IT department student training should have picture time at check in or during pizza time, opting for pizza time simply because of the fear of having to pay anyone for an extra 15 minutes? Must these task forces meet in public, where they are within earshot (and highly distracting) of the students they choose to regularly demean for their perceived generational defects? Is it an absolute necessity that FOUR full-time paid staff members, who likely make far more than anyone in their positions should, spend literal HOURS sitting in the lab, dicking around, eating doughnuts, giggling, repeating each other and talking about their Facebook mafia applications?! I am not kidding you, here. Perhaps the administration is not aware of the amount of potential productivity is wasted at these "meetings", but in the event that they are, I am woefully disappointed in the way my tuition is spent. Why spend it on funding student projects, research, or ... I don't know ... finding a way to get the "Get it at GVSU" library function to work ... um, ever? What the hell would the fun be when you can be paying executive or at least high professional salaries to people who operate within the bureaucraZy with little supervision and even less accountability for ACTUAL WORK. Fuck me, GV, is anyone running this show anymore? Read some Weber, please, and get back to me.
Love, kisses, and an educational institution where giggling about Wiki videos with GV campus pictures is more important than actual learning,
M
In a building that has a million conference rooms, at a university that claims to be one of the "most wired" campuses in the country, is it terribly necessary to have your inane brainstorming session in the middle of the only open lab for students on this end of campus? If so, must you really speak soooooo fucking loudly? Must you be demeaning of college students in your conversations? Must you dress like slobs? Must you be so self-congratulating when your damn system doesn't work 3/4 of the time? Most importantly, must. you. keep. fucking. talking?! Must you continue to use the words "um" and "yea" over and over and over again? Lab = quiet work space, not crazy IT whiteboard markering craziness, thanks. You are SO LOUD, especially you grayhaired lady. You kind of look like Bam's wacky uncle from that Jackass spinoff.
A quote from this craziness ...
-"It's a French newscast."
-"Muy bien."
Ahahahaha, nice Spanish, ass.
Dear GVSU grounds crew,
As much as I'm sure it's absolutely necessary to grind and sand the concrete exteriors of the Lake buildings, does it really have to be done at 10am on a Wednesday? That noise permeates the building walls across campus, and is highly distracting ... annoying ... mindnumbing ... argh. Does anyone think of the impacts on actual students, the people this place purports to serve, when they decide to schedule these things? I'm as well fabulously impressed by the member of your staff I saw watering the lawn from a moving truck passenger seat earlier. Not only can we waste precious ground water on making the admin happy with green grass, but we can do so from an exhaust spewing vehicle as well. Cooooool, guys. Way to be 'green'. Nice.
Dear GVSU records department,
I am not currently unhappy with you, somehow. Keep it up.
Dear GVSU (in an overarching ethereal sense ... mostly, people that actually make decisions),
Is it terribly necessary to spend so much time on committees and task forces and planning sessions about website designs and Flikr photo choices and whether the IT department student training should have picture time at check in or during pizza time, opting for pizza time simply because of the fear of having to pay anyone for an extra 15 minutes? Must these task forces meet in public, where they are within earshot (and highly distracting) of the students they choose to regularly demean for their perceived generational defects? Is it an absolute necessity that FOUR full-time paid staff members, who likely make far more than anyone in their positions should, spend literal HOURS sitting in the lab, dicking around, eating doughnuts, giggling, repeating each other and talking about their Facebook mafia applications?! I am not kidding you, here. Perhaps the administration is not aware of the amount of potential productivity is wasted at these "meetings", but in the event that they are, I am woefully disappointed in the way my tuition is spent. Why spend it on funding student projects, research, or ... I don't know ... finding a way to get the "Get it at GVSU" library function to work ... um, ever? What the hell would the fun be when you can be paying executive or at least high professional salaries to people who operate within the bureaucraZy with little supervision and even less accountability for ACTUAL WORK. Fuck me, GV, is anyone running this show anymore? Read some Weber, please, and get back to me.
Love, kisses, and an educational institution where giggling about Wiki videos with GV campus pictures is more important than actual learning,
M