responsibility bites

[rivendellrose]

Damn. Apparently I only thought I'd be able to go home straight from class. I get out of class at 12:30, but noooo, I have a gift council meeting at 1pm to go over the portfolios for artists.

I'm tired, darn it! I want to go home!!!

Edit: Why don't I just answer the phone "University of Washington directory services, how may I help you with something completely unrelated to our purpose today?"

We don't give out add codes - talk to your professor. We don't make appointments for the advisors - you want the office upstairs, you can't just randomly pick any godsdamned number in the building and assume that we'll help you. We can't reserve a room for your class, there's a whole department on campus specifically devoted to that. Likewise with reservations not for a class. If your event is not actually on campus, what the hell are you doing talking to us, anyway?

And, my new favorite - we don't have course packets or lab manuals, either. Certainly not for Winter quarter. If you're so gods-damned inept that you have to repeat Geology 101 of all the pathetic classes, you should have been expelled by now anyway, and I'm going to take it as a personal insult that I have to smile and pretend that this is a natural mistake, and play phone tag with the whole fucking Earth & Space Sciences department trying to track down your stupid little lab packet because you're so dumb and lazy that not only did you not do it the first time, but you somehow thought someone said to come to the basement in my building for it. No, I very much doubt that's what your TA told you. We have nothing to do with that, and I know folks in the ESS department - they, unlike you, are not morons.

Also, your manner of speech is an insult to neanderthals. Screw you.

Comments

[scourgeotheseas.livejournal.com]

Hey, now. No picking on the Geology.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

This is what I mean! Geology is a good department - none of the TAs in that department would've told this dumbass to go to the basement of Mary Gates for a lab manual, because nowhere in Mary Gates handles lab manuals! So I know that this guy's attempts to pass this problem off on his TA are total bullshit.

[iamlovely.livejournal.com]

This was an extremely witty rant. I absolutely loved it! I know exactly how you feel! That's how it is when I work for my uncle. People assume because my uncle owns the company, and my mom works there that I know everything...

"You're Wade's neice? Could you input this in the computer, I'm not quite sure if it's in rfp format."
"I'm just answering the phones."

Or of course the mind numbing phone calls, one guy called and asked to talk to someone in the marketing department. I asked who, he said he didn't know his name. I asked him if he knew the man's position, and he said no. Then I asked him if he knew what the man looked like, and he said no. So then he was mad that I couldn't help him! I was so frustrated. Why would you call, if you didn't know who you were calling for! People can be so ridiculous.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oh god - similar to your freak who didn't know who he wanted to talk to, we get a lot of calls for my former boss, who hasn't worked at the university in over a year, now. Hell, we still occasoinally get people coming into the office looking for him! It's kind of embarassing, but funny... especially the time a few weeks ago when some magazine he was subscribed to called looking for him. As soon as I got them off the phone, I just couldn't stop laughing.

Quick question, unrelated to your post subject

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

You did say in an earlier post that you got your latest issue of "Bitch", right? Just wondering because mine hasn't arrived yet. Maybe it takes longer for the issues to get to Chicago than Seattle.

Re: Quick question, unrelated to your post subject

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got it... hmm, I think it was on Tuesday? Yeah, because my paper was due Wednesday and it... distracted me. ;)

That is odd. I could understand it maybe taking an extra day or something, if their publisher is on the west coast, but I can't imagine it'd make that much difference...

Re: Quick question, unrelated to your post subject

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Well, what do ya know? Mine just arrived today. Yay!

Re: Quick question, unrelated to your post subject

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'd say it's a really good issue, but so was the first one I got, so now I'm just working on the assumption that the magazine just plain rocks. ;)