You know what really grinds my gears?
Well, first off, my own stupidity. I decided it would be a nice idea to drunkenly spill a beer into my laptop over the weekend.
To add to my complete stupidity, I was wearing an Easter bunny suit when I spilled the beer. In doing so, I lost everything, thesis too! The thing is totally fried.
Who can I blame? Who can I take this out on? Nobody but myself!
That said, the beer in the laptop trick is not the smartest thing I've ever done, and I've done some dumb stuff, but who would have thought that liquid and electricity go together about as well as George Dubya and Rupaul... not I.
Anyway, I could ramble about my own stupidity for days, but I don't want to bore anyone with cliff falls, fist fights, or lizard bites. Back to the topic...what really grinds my gears.
It's economy, stupid. I love the scam this college has going with money. It's bad enough that book prices are ridiculous, not to mention a dining hall bill for which I eat about a quarter of what I pay, and who could forget the ever-increasing tuition?
What I really love, however, is when I get nickel and dimed to death. You know, when I get a bill from the college for a $150 graduation fee.
Wait a minute, what is this crap? I haven't graduated yet, so how can I be paying for it? What's the fee for?
Oh, I know, it must be for my parents' place to stay in town, or maybe it's for the food and programs they will attending graduation weekend...nope. It must be for my class ring, or maybe it's for decoration and landscaping on the campus green so that it looks nice for graduation...nope.
Hmm...I wonder.
Anyway, don't worry about this, kid, we'll just tack the 150 bucks onto some bill, label it as a "graduation fee," and nobody will ask any questions because if they don't pay it, we'll just hold onto their diploma. Sounds like a heads-up plan; I mean, after all the money they have already given us, what's another 150 beanos? We've got him by the you-know-whats.
And just when you thought you had seen it all, we'll stop students' ability to charge with their ID two weeks before most of them leave for the summer.
But wait, I thought we were trying to bleed them for every penny we could? Yes we are! But if we allow students to charge during a period where they will be up late studying and making frantic visits to the Cove, we will only be making more work for ourselves and we can't allow employees the stress of doing their job. Besides, most of the students have piles of money sitting around, especially at the end of the second semester.
Then to really get them angry, we'll tell the class officers that we don't know how much money they have in their class accounts. I mean, heaven forbid they would ever not pay us on time, then we'd just take away their ability to charge on campus, but when it comes to how much money they have in one of their accounts with us, we'll just try the old "if you can't convince them, confuse them" tactic.
"Well, we're not sure how much is in the account; we'll just have to get back to you," then we won't get to them. Brilliant! Why be honest, why be fair, why serve the students?
And now for the cigarette campaign conclusion...
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