I'm tired of the soup du jour!!
Running on-campus errands is one of those activities that can either be really invigorating, or really horrible and depressing. Consider my attempt to change a grading option for an independent study I was doing from letter-grade to s-u. First, I went to the registrar's office. They tell me to go to the Office of Graduate Studies and Research. I go to OGSR.
OGSR LADY:
I don't know what the registrar's tellin' ya'. I haven't changed a grading option in years!
I go back to the registrar's.
REGISTRAR LADY:
Naw, we don't do that here. Graduate students do that through OGSR.
Back to OGSR.
OGSR LADY:
Oh, you want to change the grading option!
That time really sucked. Today, however, I was able to get my errands run with only a modicum of frustration, that arising because I have to pay 65 bucks as an "advancement fee". That sucks. And then, when I finish my dissertation, I'm going to have to pay $119 as a "thesis filing fee". What the fuck! I had miscellaneous fees. Anyway, apart from that I was able to go to the registrar's, the cashier's office, OGSR, the bookstore, and the post office without anything going horribly wrong. And that's pretty good, considering I went to five whole places where I had to deal with UCSD employees. Something usually goes wrong one out of every three or so such circumstances. But not this time. Way to go.
OGSR LADY:
I don't know what the registrar's tellin' ya'. I haven't changed a grading option in years!
I go back to the registrar's.
REGISTRAR LADY:
Naw, we don't do that here. Graduate students do that through OGSR.
Back to OGSR.
OGSR LADY:
Oh, you want to change the grading option!
That time really sucked. Today, however, I was able to get my errands run with only a modicum of frustration, that arising because I have to pay 65 bucks as an "advancement fee". That sucks. And then, when I finish my dissertation, I'm going to have to pay $119 as a "thesis filing fee". What the fuck! I had miscellaneous fees. Anyway, apart from that I was able to go to the registrar's, the cashier's office, OGSR, the bookstore, and the post office without anything going horribly wrong. And that's pretty good, considering I went to five whole places where I had to deal with UCSD employees. Something usually goes wrong one out of every three or so such circumstances. But not this time. Way to go.
posted by dd0031 at 11:34 AM
1 Comments:
I know exactly what you mean. And how you feel. On the one hand, there are plenty of smart, competent people working at UCSD in clerical-type functions. Nevertheless, there's also plenty of ill-trained, inarticulate, lazy dipshits in those jobs too. Believe me, you're not the only one who's been shuttled back and forth, back and forth, back and forth by a bunch of dimwits who are trying their get rid of you in a way that conceals the fact that they basically don't know how to do their jobs.
Anyway, here's one way to cheer up. Check out a movie called "Layer Cake." Awesome, stylish, sophisticated crime thriller about the British underworld. Very violent. Has Sienna Miller, who's hot. Has great 80s music too.
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