Today I was working on my computer when I heard someone opening the door. I figured it was one of my fellow grad students. When the lights for the other half of the room didn't come on (I only keep my half of the room on when I'm in here by myself), I knew it was someone else. So I wandered over to find out what was going on.
It was a locksmith. He had been sent to remove the card reader that all the graduate students use to get into the graduate lab and move it downstairs to the new offices.
Problem. We aren't down there yet. All our stuff and computers are up here. How are we supposed to get into the graduate offices without the card reader? He tells me that he was told we were already moved down there. They were going to change the locks and have a key made in a couple of weeks for the people moving into the space.
How about no?
I immediately pull the Dept. Secretary into this and explain what's going on. She calls around to find out what's going on. Seems this little exchange of locks was supposed to have happened a week ago but they were backed up. Um... what??? Can you just imagine what would have happened had I not been here or if it had happened a week ago? All the GIS graduate students would have been locked out of their office with no access to any of their projects or data. I think one of my fellow grad student's head would have turned around 360 degrees while fire poured out of his mouth because he was trying to finish three projects last week and was in here 12+ hours a day working on it.
Once again, bureaucracy works by failing. They went ahead and had him exchange half of the lock (I shit you not) and put it downstairs. We have a key for the half left up here. Our cards work on the half downstairs. When we move down there, they plan on moving the other half of the lock downstairs so we can also access that room with a key.
And these are the people in charge of educating the future generations. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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My school is special.
Out of curiosity, what terms sound familiar? And are you getting a general degree in archeology, or is there something specific that you're interested in (like a time period or a culture)? I'm curious.
Also... HI!
Hm, familiar terms... GIS, field notes, stuff like that. Archaeo uses a lot of the same stuff as geo. Well, I don't hafta know the names of all the rocks and such, but I need to know how well they preserve items, how to tell subtle difference in layers, and stuff. A lot of the archaeological scientific basics are the fundamental rules of geology (law of super position, law of original horizontality, like that). In fact, next semester I might be taking geoarchaeology (either that or mircomorphology because there is no frickin; way I'm doing paleoethnobotany...) So...yeah. ^^;
Also, it looks like I'm going to be in NC that first weekend in November. Do you want to get together and do something?
I can't wait until they try to move stuff when we're not here, because no one will be able to get into the office downstairs without one of our cards. This whole things just reeks of a cluster fuck.