CA duty is WAY harder than RA duty...
Let's take RA duty...you have a pager and you respond to residents in two areas. North II, and Southeast...now that sucks if you have to do a lockout or fire alarm at 3 in the morning. But that's about the worst thing that's going to happen during the summer really...being realistic here.
Now during the year, you have a pager, you do a duty weekend twice, three times a semester depending on the size of your staff. And you have one duty night a week...once again depending on the size of your staff. You're responsible for one area. Big deal. The people in that specific area actually live there and have a working knowledge (hopefully) of the environment, and city. I mean dude, they go to school there. So they don't have questions all the time. Sometimes, but not all the time. They adjust, sink or swim...learn to float...whatever. They do this because they have the time to do this.
Now, let's take CA duty. You have a pager once every two weeks, and a duty weekend once during the summer. OH BUT IT'S HELL. You have three areas. Lockouts, stupid people, drunk teachers...and they all have the same questions week in and week out. And they all WANT something...like this is the fucking HILTON or something...Ritz-Carlton my ass...well, forget that shit. And when you have duty, you hold the pager from 9am to 9am...there's none of this 5pm to 8am bullshit. This makes weekends really long...because you hold the pager and deal with 300 needy people from 9am Friday morning to 9am Monday morning. AND YOU CAN'T GO ANYWHERE...and all it takes is you laying down to sleep...and BEEEE BEEE BEEEE BEEEEP...the NEMESIS.
Anyway, I'm just griping.
If I have to fold another piece of linen in the next two days I'm going to shoot people. I mean there are going to be murders.
Now during the year, you have a pager, you do a duty weekend twice, three times a semester depending on the size of your staff. And you have one duty night a week...once again depending on the size of your staff. You're responsible for one area. Big deal. The people in that specific area actually live there and have a working knowledge (hopefully) of the environment, and city. I mean dude, they go to school there. So they don't have questions all the time. Sometimes, but not all the time. They adjust, sink or swim...learn to float...whatever. They do this because they have the time to do this.
Now, let's take CA duty. You have a pager once every two weeks, and a duty weekend once during the summer. OH BUT IT'S HELL. You have three areas. Lockouts, stupid people, drunk teachers...and they all have the same questions week in and week out. And they all WANT something...like this is the fucking HILTON or something...Ritz-Carlton my ass...well, forget that shit. And when you have duty, you hold the pager from 9am to 9am...there's none of this 5pm to 8am bullshit. This makes weekends really long...because you hold the pager and deal with 300 needy people from 9am Friday morning to 9am Monday morning. AND YOU CAN'T GO ANYWHERE...and all it takes is you laying down to sleep...and BEEEE BEEE BEEEE BEEEEP...the NEMESIS.
Anyway, I'm just griping.
If I have to fold another piece of linen in the next two days I'm going to shoot people. I mean there are going to be murders.
posted by Hew Tyler | 1:59 PM
2 Comments:
linen=death
next, live on CNN:
the linen murderer.
he'll shoot you and fold you up in his freshly washed/dried linen.
he'll do it.
he will.
beware of the scent of bleach and the slight sound of sheets.
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