Disillusionment
Aug. 30th, 2006 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday class started, so the buses are running on a full schedule which means they should be coming by much more regularly. I looked on the website and in response to the rise of gas prices, they are reducing the frequency. So last year, buses were scheduled to come every 7 - 9 minutes, and this year, every 9 - 12 minutes. I looked up the schedule, and on weekday mornings buses are scheduled to run every 12 minutes. Still, I shouldn't have had to wait 20 minutes for a bus this morning. I can see on the schedule that one bus was just plain missing. This means I still have to leave the house at 7:15 to be sure of getting to work on time (by 8:00), even though I live only four miles away. I may as well take the city bus.
You know what? That really pisses me off.
I live on a shuttle route for a reason, and that reason is not so that I can have a forty-five minute commute each way.
I keep thinking I should ride a bike to work, but it's more dangerous and I get so completely sweaty and I can't read while I'm biking. Jerks!
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And yesterday while I was working on course schedule change forms, I realized that every single time I get a "cancel" form, I better look something up on the mainframe because I can't trust what's on the form.
And today, I realized have to look the same thing up on "change" forms. Why? Because one section said there were no changes when in fact the mother of all changes had occurred. The new electronic form is capable of complete lies. That section is utterly useless to me.
You know what? That makes me want to cry. I get so tired of having to interpret my way through piles and piles of stuff I don't even care about just to get to the few morsels I need, and now some of the piles of stuff aren't even helpful to anyone.
New electronic forms were created for a reason and that reason was not so that I can look everything up in a different place to double-check it.
And why are people still changing the course schedule when classes have already started! Jerks!
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There's one tiny section of our office that is left to be remodeled. Today, an office near me is schedule to be painted. Somehow this involved many, many minutes of hammering sounds with a hint of drilling sounds.
It's just another thing that makes me wish I had less than eight years and four and a half months before I can retire.
You know what? That really pisses me off.
I live on a shuttle route for a reason, and that reason is not so that I can have a forty-five minute commute each way.
I keep thinking I should ride a bike to work, but it's more dangerous and I get so completely sweaty and I can't read while I'm biking. Jerks!
**
And yesterday while I was working on course schedule change forms, I realized that every single time I get a "cancel" form, I better look something up on the mainframe because I can't trust what's on the form.
And today, I realized have to look the same thing up on "change" forms. Why? Because one section said there were no changes when in fact the mother of all changes had occurred. The new electronic form is capable of complete lies. That section is utterly useless to me.
You know what? That makes me want to cry. I get so tired of having to interpret my way through piles and piles of stuff I don't even care about just to get to the few morsels I need, and now some of the piles of stuff aren't even helpful to anyone.
New electronic forms were created for a reason and that reason was not so that I can look everything up in a different place to double-check it.
And why are people still changing the course schedule when classes have already started! Jerks!
**
There's one tiny section of our office that is left to be remodeled. Today, an office near me is schedule to be painted. Somehow this involved many, many minutes of hammering sounds with a hint of drilling sounds.
It's just another thing that makes me wish I had less than eight years and four and a half months before I can retire.