Print Edition: April 2, 2014
Viva la coffee!
From the long lines, grumpy staff, and lack of baked goods, I deem the UFV Abbotsford Tim’s guilty of poor service.
I understand that mornings are horrible, but one of the customer service requirements for staff is to deliver your morning cup-o-joe with a smile, not a grunt. Don’t get me wrong, some of the staff are good about smiling and faking morning joy, but some of them really need a pick-me-up. Honestly, do you live in a garbage can like Oscar the Grouch?
Apart from dealing with morning horrors, Tim’s lack of product is also annoying. Sometimes you really need a large French vanilla coffee or an “everything” bagel smothered in cream cheese, but those items are not always there.
In my experience the French vanilla and the iced cappucinos are items that disappear a lot, and recently the “everything” bagels have faded away from the arsenal of baked goods.
I understand that machines fail and baking can’t always been done in a timely manner; but will the madness ever end?!
Don’t lock the door
The last few times I’ve stayed late on the Abbotsford campus, it has been for AfterMath events. Usually I order a beer or two, and some water to go with it (because sometimes I’m responsible and I know alcohol dehydrates you).
But everyone knows if you drink large amounts of anything, you’ll eventually have to pee. And when it comes to alcohol, you pee a lot.
I’m not sure who made the rule in facilities to lock all the bathrooms in the evening after cleaning them, but I’d like them to feel my frustration.
Trying to find a bathroom across campus wearing high heels in the dark, when there is a perfectly good bathroom down the hall from the campus pub, is the worst!
Why are the bathrooms getting locked in the first place? Even without students enjoying a few evening drinks at AfterMath, late-night classes are usually in session until 10 p.m.
And I’m sure I’m not the only one who pees before driving home, especially if you commute from Langley or Chilliwack.
Come on, facilities — unlock the doors!
It’s “just-us” for justice
I have a hard time being involved politically.
It’s not that I have a problem with government or that I’m in the, “I am a young person therefore I don’t vote” category.
Rather it’s if environmental, First Nations,’ and women’s rights issues are political, then I am not allowed to be active.
Why is the Canadian government currently letting big oil companies go “fishing” in our preserved national parks?
Why is our international agenda peace, when nationally, the Harper-led government cannot peaceably follow through on the 800 treaties signed by First Nations since “discovering” our home and “native” land?
Aren’t we a multicultural country? Shouldn’t that act start with the populations that were here before us?
It seems our government has good national ideals behind its voice until political interests — AKA money — blinds their eyes.
If I want to see justice for the environment or for human beings, I can’t see how going through political channels helps to implement change.
The lie of the librarian career
I love to read. I’ve always loved to read. As a kid, adults always thought this was the cutest thing.
“Look at you with that big book!” they’d chuckle, delighted. “Maybe you’ll be a librarian when you grow up!”
So while I’ve never really had an urge to become a librarian, it was always there in the back of my mind as a back-up plan.
But being a librarian has very little, if anything at all, to do with reading books.
That’s like telling someone, “You’re attracted to women? Cool! You should be a gynecologist!”
The last thing I want to do is spend my days examining the way people have misused or neglected the thing I love.
In no way, shape, or form do I want to spend my days watching books come back to the library with bent pages and spaghetti spilled on them.
I love to read, but librarians don’t get to read books all day. In fact, I don’t think anyone gets to read books all day — which is downright unfair.
Why would the world lead me to believe such a perfect career existed? Why?
