University Rant

ksig600 · #1 07-21-2003, 11:08 AM

Okay, so this thread is to post your rants or stories about your university's administrative offices....

Rant:

I HATE my university's Financial Aid and Student Accounts offices. They hire the most inept, unknowledgeable people with the worst personalities and people skills. You ask them questions and they either dont know, or treat you like a moron. Every year i've had a problem with them (and its usually their fault). Then when they correct the problem, they make it seem as if they are doing you a favor......

ZTAngel · #2 07-21-2003, 11:13 AM

UCF's College of Business Office of Student Support is run by a bunch of people who have a combined IQ of 10.

They have this one burn out who works the front desk. The kid is a moron and doesn't know which end is up.

The "advisors" don't really advise. They sit there fumbling for answers and then pull them out of their butts. They are famous for messing up people's schedules to the point where they don't have enough prerequisites to take a certain course therefore causing the student to graduate a semester or two late.

Meanwhile, the College of Business is probably one of the more populated colleges in the university. But, the HR department in the office of student support won't hire more advisors. During registration, you will see a 200 person line all around the business building of students waiting to "advised".

moe.ron · #3 07-21-2003, 11:16 AM

Weird, when I was an undergrad, my advisor is my professor. So he knew pretty well what classes I need to take and yada yada yada.

As for financial aid, no way you can escape their wrath, no matter what school you go to.

Dionysus · #4 07-21-2003, 11:53 AM

Ha! You must go to my school. My freshman year they lost my FA applications TWICE.

docetboy · #5 07-21-2003, 11:55 AM

My school outdoes all of you. On my acceptance letter, there was bad spelling and grammer!

steelepike · #6 07-21-2003, 12:22 PM

I must agree the Evil Abomination known to the casual observer as the Financial Aid Office is Satan.

DeltAlum · #7 07-21-2003, 01:44 PM

Nice to see some things never change. When I went to school I figured if you took the total IQ of all university hourly employees and added three points, combined, they would be a plant.

Lil' Hannah · #8 07-21-2003, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by docetboy
My school outdoes all of you. On my acceptance letter, there was bad spelling and grammer!

At least it wasn't bad grammar.

...sorry

steelepike · #9 07-21-2003, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lil' Hannah
At least it wasn't bad grammar.

...sorry

why am I laughing at this?

Oh well i laughed

GMUBunny · #10 07-21-2003, 02:15 PM

I'm actually happy with my financial aid office for the first (and probably last) time ever... they actually didn't lose my student loan application and it got approved.

The housing office is the one I want to burn down. First, they told me that since I vacated my room fall semester before the deadline, I get my $300 housing deposit back. My options with that were to have them send me a check, or just have it put forward as the deposit for this fall. Well, I called a couple of days ago and they said that they don't do forwarding of deposits... I never got my damn money back!!! I still have the letter stating that they would hold it over so I'm gonna go in and chew them out tomorrow.

Parking services is a bitch too, hence why we refer to them as the "Ticket Nazis." My life revolves around stalking people for parking spaces in the student lot so my car doesn't get towed for parking in the staff section when I'm late for class.

Munchkin03 · #11 07-21-2003, 02:33 PM

I can top all of you...

...my school lost my tuition check last fall. That's right. They started sending me letters and calling my parents, threatening to cut off my access to buildings. My mom was like, "Duh! We sent it months ago!"

They found it, and all was well.

It was my experience that the reason a lot of the administrative offices were terrible was because students did a lot of the non-confidential paperwork, and were a buffer between us and the person we really needed to talk to. I had a lot of officeworkers, librarians, and janitors who gave me the hookup as far as some things were concerned--it was the student workers who sucked (and as a former student worker, I feel I can say that without being flamed).

Honeykiss1974 · #12 07-21-2003, 03:35 PM

Hmm, my alma mater's Financial Aid office was GOSH AWFUL as well!

What is it about the FAO?

Peaches-n-Cream · #13 07-21-2003, 05:20 PM

When I was a freshman, I worked in the Financial Aid Office. It was awful because they didn't train me. They threw me right in there and expected me to figure everything out. I was a college student for one week, and I knew nothing about financial aid so it made me look (and feel) incompetent. I had worked in an office during the summer so I knew how an office was supposed to be run, but it didn't help. I would follow instructions and then they would change procedures. It was a bad job for me, but the staff was nice for the most part.

CatStarESP4 · #14 07-21-2003, 05:38 PM

When I was in college, the worst part was the beginning of each semester. Long lines in the bookstore (AAAARRRRGGGHH), financial aid, bursar's, registrar, etc. I know that we all have experienced this, but I just wanted to rant about the dread start of the new semester!

Tom Earp · #15 07-21-2003, 10:46 PM

DeltaAlum, I take umbridge to that statement!

Dont bad mouth plants!

Plants need love too!

Oh, and probably smarter!

My Ex would have been great there, she had a brown thumb!