So this weekend I FINALLY got to do something I have wanted to do for several years!! I created and hosted our first ever Train the Trainer Summer Workshop!!
It was something I wanted to implement at EMU but was always told no. Finally got permission to do it at ISU and it was this weekend. We had 8 attendees and a really good program! I'm really REALLY excited and think it will make our fall workshop presentations all the better! We covered how to create learning objectives, different training methods, visual aids, choosing which points to emphasis and how to emphasize them, asking/answering questions, communication and presentation, and developing a lesson plan.
I know I'm a geek, but I LOVED it! We also did a lot of team building and toured our most recently renovated res hall that opens in August.
Awesome weekend!! :)
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Wait.. WHAT?!!
Tonight Jess, Rex, and I went to dinner.. it's been something of a rough week.
So when I got home I took Sassy out, like always. While we were walking out this teal jeep pulled up and the lady in the passenger seat looked right at me and loudly said "Wow" then turned to the guy with her and pointed at me and say "Wow, look at that!" Then she made some other rude comments about me as her wasted friend fell out of the jeep.
Let me describe this woman for you... she was in her late 40's early 50's with fried dyed blond hair -- three inches of black roots showing -- rotten teeth.. the meth-head kind that are rotten from the top down instead of the bottom up... had a nasty orange tan, and skin that looked pretty darn leathery... in a word.. trashy... specifically the Terre Haute brand of trashy...
So I think to my self... really? Really!? SHE thinks she has any place to judge ME?? REALLY??!!
But of course I can't respond... I mean what do I say to that? I don't know this woman, but I imagine she'd be the type to get up in my face... how the hell do I show up at work tomorrow with a black eye..
Besides there is no response.. I don't need to defend myself to her.. I don't care what she thinks.. it's more the principle of the thing... I WANT to respond to let her know that she's the one who should be ashamed of herself -- not ME..
Sassy was trying to go over to them because she loves people.. so I just called to her, "Come on Sass.. we don't play with trash" and went in... I know it was childish. but I haven't let people get away with talking to me like that since I was in high school... I don't want ANYONE to think that it's OK to be disrespectful for no reason... ignorant trash!
So when I got home I took Sassy out, like always. While we were walking out this teal jeep pulled up and the lady in the passenger seat looked right at me and loudly said "Wow" then turned to the guy with her and pointed at me and say "Wow, look at that!" Then she made some other rude comments about me as her wasted friend fell out of the jeep.
Let me describe this woman for you... she was in her late 40's early 50's with fried dyed blond hair -- three inches of black roots showing -- rotten teeth.. the meth-head kind that are rotten from the top down instead of the bottom up... had a nasty orange tan, and skin that looked pretty darn leathery... in a word.. trashy... specifically the Terre Haute brand of trashy...
So I think to my self... really? Really!? SHE thinks she has any place to judge ME?? REALLY??!!
But of course I can't respond... I mean what do I say to that? I don't know this woman, but I imagine she'd be the type to get up in my face... how the hell do I show up at work tomorrow with a black eye..
Besides there is no response.. I don't need to defend myself to her.. I don't care what she thinks.. it's more the principle of the thing... I WANT to respond to let her know that she's the one who should be ashamed of herself -- not ME..
Sassy was trying to go over to them because she loves people.. so I just called to her, "Come on Sass.. we don't play with trash" and went in... I know it was childish. but I haven't let people get away with talking to me like that since I was in high school... I don't want ANYONE to think that it's OK to be disrespectful for no reason... ignorant trash!
416... and counting
So I'm doing a running count on my facebook page, but can't really explain it there...
So, the count is down to 412...
412 what? you ask...
It's actually 416 people that we've pissed off in the last week... it's down to 412 because we've been able to help some people.. but still 412 is a lot!
How have we pissed them off, you ask? (Yes, I realize I should never write anything in second person and my high school AND college instructors would keel over with a heart attack, but I LIKE it)
Anyway, so I work at a University... in Housing. I don't want to say that Admissions admitted too many people.... because we have an open admittance policy... BUT... if all first year students are REQUIRED to live on campus unless they live within 60 miles of campus... they really should limit first year students to the amount of space we have for them... don'tcha think??
Unfortunately, what is logical to most of us somehow escapes our admissions folks. Their job is to get their admissions numbers up -- our job is to house them and help them succeed to graduation...
Unfortunately, helping them succeed becomes harder when they admit 500 more folks than we can house...
Anyway, we have an early payment of $150 (Kind of like a deposit) due of all returning and new students by July 1st. In past years if a student hasn't paid that they would lose their assignment, but since we had plenty of space they could calls us, pay it, and get their room back. This year -- not so much. This year we have to give priority to first year students who paid their $150 on time. So a lot of our upper class students (311 to be exact) lost their room because they didn't pay on time and are ANGRY and calling to get their room back. UNFORTUNATELY, we have 640 first year students who did pay on time whom we have to find rooms for -- so the upper class students are now wait-listed. This is the first group of students who are pissed off at us...
Group 2: During returning student sign-up we allowed 125 students sign up for single rooms. They pay extra for the single and it allows us to make up some of the $$ we lose if we can't fill a building. Unfortunately, we now need that space so this week we canceled ALL single rooms. Which ended up being 85 rooms. So now all of those folks are calling, angry (OK it's not really the students -- it's the parents -- who are WORSE when it comes to entitlement). They are demanding their single rooms back and we just don't have the space.. so we are allowing them to choose a roommate (who already has a housing contract AND has paid their $150) or move off campus. This has created an entirely different group of angry people.
This number also includes University Athletes -- who are pissed as are their families and coaches...
So the 416 is an approximate number.. but still.. it's a lot of people to have calling and yelling at us. I am so very grateful for the six ladies who sit at the front counter and answer the telephone. Their life sucks right now and I keep taking them candy and small gifts to thank then. Unfortunately, my PIC and I get stuck with all the really REALLY mean parents who call -- Yay for us.... (mock cheering)
Anyway, that's what those numbers are all about... there is a silver lining!! The bottom line -- $$$ lots and lots of extra $$ to do fun things with next year!!
Well, that's IF all the students who say they are coming actually come and IF when they get here they can actually pay their bills... and that's IF they can afford their books and IF they actually go to class and not get kicked out...
I love my job. (You can decide for yourself if that is sarcasm or not)
So, the count is down to 412...
412 what? you ask...
It's actually 416 people that we've pissed off in the last week... it's down to 412 because we've been able to help some people.. but still 412 is a lot!
How have we pissed them off, you ask? (Yes, I realize I should never write anything in second person and my high school AND college instructors would keel over with a heart attack, but I LIKE it)
Anyway, so I work at a University... in Housing. I don't want to say that Admissions admitted too many people.... because we have an open admittance policy... BUT... if all first year students are REQUIRED to live on campus unless they live within 60 miles of campus... they really should limit first year students to the amount of space we have for them... don'tcha think??
Unfortunately, what is logical to most of us somehow escapes our admissions folks. Their job is to get their admissions numbers up -- our job is to house them and help them succeed to graduation...
Unfortunately, helping them succeed becomes harder when they admit 500 more folks than we can house...
Anyway, we have an early payment of $150 (Kind of like a deposit) due of all returning and new students by July 1st. In past years if a student hasn't paid that they would lose their assignment, but since we had plenty of space they could calls us, pay it, and get their room back. This year -- not so much. This year we have to give priority to first year students who paid their $150 on time. So a lot of our upper class students (311 to be exact) lost their room because they didn't pay on time and are ANGRY and calling to get their room back. UNFORTUNATELY, we have 640 first year students who did pay on time whom we have to find rooms for -- so the upper class students are now wait-listed. This is the first group of students who are pissed off at us...
Group 2: During returning student sign-up we allowed 125 students sign up for single rooms. They pay extra for the single and it allows us to make up some of the $$ we lose if we can't fill a building. Unfortunately, we now need that space so this week we canceled ALL single rooms. Which ended up being 85 rooms. So now all of those folks are calling, angry (OK it's not really the students -- it's the parents -- who are WORSE when it comes to entitlement). They are demanding their single rooms back and we just don't have the space.. so we are allowing them to choose a roommate (who already has a housing contract AND has paid their $150) or move off campus. This has created an entirely different group of angry people.
This number also includes University Athletes -- who are pissed as are their families and coaches...
So the 416 is an approximate number.. but still.. it's a lot of people to have calling and yelling at us. I am so very grateful for the six ladies who sit at the front counter and answer the telephone. Their life sucks right now and I keep taking them candy and small gifts to thank then. Unfortunately, my PIC and I get stuck with all the really REALLY mean parents who call -- Yay for us.... (mock cheering)
Anyway, that's what those numbers are all about... there is a silver lining!! The bottom line -- $$$ lots and lots of extra $$ to do fun things with next year!!
Well, that's IF all the students who say they are coming actually come and IF when they get here they can actually pay their bills... and that's IF they can afford their books and IF they actually go to class and not get kicked out...
I love my job. (You can decide for yourself if that is sarcasm or not)
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