In which I am a bitched out by some punk-ass resident

[xmatt]

Actual message left on my voicemail this evening while I was out of my room for a moment:

I locked myself out of my FUCKING room and the person that's supposed to open the [unintelligible] door is not answering his FUCKING phone. [emphasis very much hers

Comments

[mad4u689]

That's.... ridiculous.

[thatgaykid]

and by a couple times a month you mean at least 5, although if you are me it is going to me something like 10 times this month....

Having 6 people on your staff blows goats.

[xmatt]

We have 15, I'm usually on 2 or 3 nights a month.

[motomato1]

Wait, Andy -Hewitt staff doesn't share duty with Nic?

[thatgaykid]

Not this year. Robin thought it would be unfair for Hewitt and Nic to be together Fauver acted as a third leg. So we all have duty about 85x more than the Butts. It makes baby jesus cry.

[geekpunkgrrl]

i've been meaning to write one of those too...

counterpoint

[jwmo]

well, i think the girl in question is a bit batty for flying so far off the hook right away, however, if you're an RA on duty, you need to be contactable at all times. I had to keep my cordless landline in my pocket if I was going to go to the bathroom or traipse around my floor. nothing like your story ever happened to me, but we also always had a second RA on duty as a backup in case something happened where the primary duty RA wasn't available. I think I was on duty 6-7 nights a month with a staff of 14.

I was a great duty RA (a horrible programming one - but i digress) because I kept a stern face when dealing with duty issues. You can't look sheepish, but you don't want to get in a fight with a resident either.

Re: counterpoint

[xmatt]

My cellphone number is in my voicemail greeting. Also, I stepped out of my room for literally 2 minutes. I don't think its unreasonable to allow me to take a bathroom break from sitting next to the phone.

[absmindedprof]

Wow, lucky wesleyan students. At Columbia we have to get off our asses and walk all the way to the 'hospitality' desk and sign out a replacement key and use that. Short of being naked and a girl, you probably have to be both, the RA isnt supposed to let you in. My frosh year RA was a real pain about that. My first day I ended up walking in front of a large portion of the freshman class in my PJ's across campus to let myself back into my room after a shower.

That girl should consider herself lucky. ungrateful twit.

[atamagaitai]

We have the same system at my college at the University of Toronto. The worst I've done is lock myself out of my room without shoes in January fairly late at night. I had to run across snow and ice to the building down the street with the 24 hour res. desk in socks.

I might've used a few choice words at the time, but they were limited to questioning why there isn't a desk in every building.

[kessel]

And we had that system at Wesleyan until just last year. You'd have to walk halfway into town to the Physical Plant office. These freshmen... so lazy.